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whom, superior to all the rest, was called Arogawi,* signifying 
the old man, and that each built a church bearing his own name 
in Tigre. John Malala, after writing an account of the king of 
the Axomites* expedition against Dimnus/' which exactly 
agrees with that told by the Arabian authors against Duno- 
was/^ proceeds to say, " that, the king of the Axomites, when 
"he had obtained the victory, dispatched two of his relations 
" with two hundred followers to Alexandria, for the purpose of 
" soliciting from the Emperor Justinian that a bishop and some 
holy men might be sent, to insti nct his subjects in the mysteries 
of the Christian faith. The Emperor being informed of these 
things by Licinius, his viceroy at Alexandria, gave an order 
" that the ambassadors should be allowed to make choice of 
whomsoever they pleased, and they accordingly chose John, 
the almsgiver of St. John in Alexandria, a good and pious 
" man, about sixty-two years of age, and took him, then a bishop, 
together with several holy men, to their country to Anda, (or 
Ameda) their king ;''t which narrative coincides so remarkably 
* The names of the rest were Abba Alef, Tsama^ Afs^, Cuba, Llkanos, Yemata, 
Garima, and Abba Pantaleon. 
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