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Graucome, Emeus, Pidibotae, Endondacometaej 

 Nomad tribes living in tents, Cystaepe, Little Maga- 

 dale, Prumis, Nujis, Dioelis, Patingas, Breves, New 

 Magus, Egasmala, Cramda, Denna,Cadeus, Mathena, 

 Batta, Alana, Macua, Scammos, Gora, and on an 

 island ofF these places Abale, Androcalis, Seres, 

 Mallos and Agoces. 



The places on the African side are given as Tacomp- 

 sus (either a second town of the same name or a 

 suburb of the one previously mentioned), Mogore, 

 Saea, Aedosa, Pelenariae, Pindis, Magassa, Buma, 

 Lintuma, Spintum, Sidopt, Gensoe. Pindicitor, Agugo, 

 Orsum, Suara, Maumarum, Urbim, Mulon (the town 

 called by the Greeks Hypaton), Pagoartas, Zamnes 

 (after which elephants begin to be found), Mambli, 

 Berressa, Coetum. There was also formerly a town 

 called Epis, opposite to Meroe, which had been de- 

 stroyed before Bion wrote. 



These are the places that were reported as far as 

 Meroe, though at the present day hardly any of them 

 still exist on either side of the river ; at all events 

 an exploring party of praetorian troops under the 

 command of a tribune lately sent by the emperor 

 Nero, when among the rest of his wars he was 

 actually contemplating an attack on Ethiopia, 

 reported that there was nothing but desert. Never- 

 theless in the time of his late Majesty Augustus 

 the arms of Rome had penetrated even into those 

 regions, undcr the leadership of PubHus Petronius, 

 himself also a member of the Order of Knighthood, 

 when he was Governor of Egypt. Petronius cap- 

 turcd the Arabian towns of which we will give a list, 

 the only ones we have found there : Pselcis, Primi, 

 Bocchis, Cambyses' Market, Attenia and Stadissis, 



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