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all the commerce of tliese parts. Next come the Hemnatse, 
the Aualitse, the towns of Domata and Hegra, the Tamudaei,^^ 
\nth the town of Eadanatha, the Carrei, with the town of 
Cariati,^* the Achoali, with the town of Foth, and the Minsei, 
who derive their origin, it is supposed,^ from Minos, king of 
Crete, and of whom the Carmaei are a tribe. JMext comes a 
town, fourteen miles distant, called Marippa, and belonging to 
the Palamaces, a place by no means to be overlooked, and then 
Carnon. The Ehadamsei also — these too are supposed to derive 
their origin^^ from Ehadamanthus, the brother of Minos — the 
Homeritse,^' with their city of Masala,^^ the Hamirei, the Ged- 
ranitse, the Amphyrse, the Ilisanitae, the Bachilitse, the Sam- 
naei, the Amitsei, with the towns of !N"essa and Cennesseris, 
the Zamareni, with the towns of Sagiatta and Canthace, the 
Bacascami, the town of Eiphearma, the name by which they 
call barley, the Autei, the Ethravi, the Cyrei and the Matha- 
tsei, the Helmodenes, with the town of Ebode, the Agacturi, 
dwelling in the mountains, with a town twenty miles distant, 
in which is a fountain called ^nuscabales,^^ which signifies 
the town of the camels." Ampelome also, a Milesian 
colony, the town of Athrida, the Calingii, whose city is called 
Mariva,^^ and signifies the lord of all men the towns of 
Palon and Murannimal, near a river by which it is thought that 
the Euphrates discharges itself, the nations of the Agrei and 
the Ammonii, the town of Athense, the Caunaravi, a name 
^3 Their district is still called Thamiid, according to Ansart. 
Still called Cariatain, according to Ansart. 
•^^ A ridiculous fancy, probably founded solely on the similarity of the 
name. 
A story as probable, Hardouin observes, as that about the descendants 
of Minos. 
The Arabs of Yemen, known in Oriental history by the name of 
Himyari, were called by the Greeks Homeritae. 
^8 An inland city, called Masthala by Ptolemy. 
^9 Agatharchides speaks of a town on the sea coast, which was so called 
from the multitude of ducks found there. The one here spoken of was in 
the interior, and cannot be the same. 
6^ Hardouin observes, that neither this word, nor the name Riphe- 
ama, above mentioned, has either a Hebrew or an Arabian origin. 
61 Probably . the same place as we find spoken of by Herodotus as Ampe, 
and at which Darius settled a colony of Miletians after the capture of 
Miletus, B.C. 494. 
Hardouin remarks that Mariaba, the name found in former editions, 
has no such meaning in the modern Arabic. 
