MOCHA. 469 
Justinian, to send him bishops and clergymen, and all the 
country was baptised and became Christians."* The facts in 
this last account agree very exactly with the others, excepting in 
the last statement, which appears to be somewhat incorrect ; for it 
is evident from Cosmas and other writers, that these holy men" 
had no pretensions to the honour of introducing Christianity into 
the country, but that they merely settled the faith ;" Cosmas 
expressly stating, that in his time there were churches, priests, 
and many Christian people throughout Ethiopia, Axum, and all 
the adjacent country ;"t Cosmas was at Adule, as he himself 
mentions early in the reign of the Emperor Justin, and conse- 
quently several years before the arrival of the holy men from Egypt, 
The foregoing remarks, therefore, fix the death of Aretas to 522, 
or the 5th year of the Emperor Justin ; Cosmas's visit to Adule to 
about 525 ; the expedition against Arabia to about 530, and the 
arrival of the holy men and settling of the faith to between the 
last period and 542. 
Procopius also gives a full account of the expedition against 
Arabia, calling the sovereign of the Axomites Hellesthaeus.J It is 
singular that it should have escaped the attention of his commenta- 
tors, that the mere alteration of a single letter would restore this 
word to its proper form, Heiresbeeus or El esbaas, nothing being 
more likely to have occurred in Greek than the mistake of the € 
for 9, His Abramus"§ is also clearly the Abreha of the Arabian 
authors, who afterwards conducted the war of the Elephant, and 
the jBTmmaphseus may be, in all probability, the Aryat Abu 
Sehem^W who was placed by the Abyssinian monarch as his Viceroy 
* Vide p. 374. f Vide Opinio De Mundo, p. 179. J P. 257, et seq. 
§ P. 258. 11 ^\ ) Vid. Hist. Joctan, p. 143, 
