[718] Dion Cassius calls him Caius Petronius. He carried on the war in B.C. 22 against the Æthiopians, who had invaded Egypt under their queen Candace. He took many of their towns.
[719] Du Bocage is of opinion that this place stood not far from the present Ibrim.
[720] Supposed by Du Bocage to have stood in the vicinity of the modern Dongola.
[721] He was clearly a mythical personage, and nothing certain is known with respect to him. Tombs of Memnon were shown in several places, as at Ptolemais in Syria, on the Hellespont, on a hill near the mouth of the river Æsepus, near Palton in Syria, in Æthiopia, and elsewhere.
[722] Her story has been alluded to in the account of Joppa, B. v. c. 34. Cepheus, the father of Andromeda, though possessing the coasts of Syria, was fabled to have been king of Æthiopia.
[723] See B. v. c. 10, where Meroë is also mentioned.
[724] Or the sacred “sycamore tree.”
[725] Situate beyond the Great Cataract, and on the western bank.
[726] See the Notes to the preceding Chapter, in p. [95].
[727] Or dog’s-headed ape, described in B. viii. c. 80. It is supposed to be the baboon.