oo pi.iny's yATru\L inSTOUY. [Book VI. 



which siornifies *• most rich iu herds," the Coranitae, the CEsiini. 

 ami the Choaiii."^ Hero wore also formerly the Greek towns 

 oi Aivthusii, I^irisiU ;md Chiilois. which have beeu destroy t.\l 

 iu various wai-s. 



^lius Giillus.^ a member of the Equestrian order, is the 

 sole person who has liitherto carried the Roman arms into these 

 lands, for Cains Ctvsiir. the sou"^' of Augustus, only had a dis- 

 tant view of Arabia. In his expedition. Gallus destroyed the 

 following towns, tlie names of which are not given by the 

 authors who had written before his time. Xegnma, Xestum, 

 Xesca, Masugum. Caminacum, Labecia, and Mariva'* al>ove- 

 mentioned, six miles in ciivumfeivnce. as also Caripeta. the 

 furthest point of his expedition. He bi\night back with him 

 the folio winiT discoveries — that the Xomades"^" live upon milk 

 and the tlesh of wild beasts, and that the other nations, like 

 the Indi:ms, extract a sort of wine from the palm-tive, and 

 oil from sesiuue.^ He Siiys that the most numerous of these 

 tribes aiv the Homeritfe tmd the Mina?i. that their lands tu-e 

 fruitful in palms tmd shrubs, and that their chief we;ilth is 

 centred in tlieir docks. AVe also lei\rn from the Simie source 

 that the Cerbcuii and the Agi-jei excel in arms, but more 

 particuLirly the Chatr:unotit« ;*^ that the territories of the 

 C;irrei are the most extensive and most Iprtile ; but that the 

 Sabfei are the richest of j\ll in the great abundance of their 

 spice-l^viring giwes, their mines of gold,"'' their streams for 



^•5 Mentioned by Grid in the Metamorphoses, B. v. L 165. et s<rq. 

 Sillig. however, rt-ads *' Ciani." 



"An intimate friend of the sreographer Strabo. He was prefect of 

 Ei^rpt duriuiT parr of the reign of August iis>, and in the year? b.c. 24 and 

 il5. Many particulars have bt^n given by Srrabo of his expedition against 

 Arabiii, in which he completely failed. The heat of the sun, the bailnes3 

 of the water, and the want of the necessaries of life, destroyed the greater 

 pcut of his army. 



^" By adoption, as previously stated. 



* The town of the Oaliugii. mentioned above. 



^ Or w;inderin? tribes. 



** Its uses in medicine are stated at length in the last Chapter of B. xxi. 



® Another form of the name of Atramit* prtviouslv mentioned, the 

 ancient inhabitants of the part of Arabia known as Sadramant, and 

 settled, as is supposed, by the descendants of the Joctanite patriarch 

 H:izarmiiTeth. 



Ar.ibi.i a: the present day yields no gold, and very little silver. The 

 quern of Saeba is mentioned as bringing gold to Solomon. I KtMiis, i. 2, 

 2 L\n>H. ii. i. Artcmidorus and Diodurus Siculos make mention, on the 



