people
Ethiopians (Macrobii)
Ethiopians
also: Macrobii
A long-lived people of the far south (the 'Macrobii,' long-livers); Cambyses marched against them in a fatal, unprovisioned campaign.
Reading notes
- On Anger §3.20 Macrobii
The long-lived Ethiopians ('long-livers'), against whom Cambyses led a doomed, unprovisioned march.
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §85.41 Ethiopian
An Aethiops --- a dark-skinned African; Seneca pictures the smallest of beast-keepers commanding an elephant, an image of mastery out of all proportion to size.