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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 February 2009
The tale current in antiquity that a certain section of the people known as Αίθίοπες was peculiar for its longevity is one of whose origin a satisfactory account is still to seek. To say that the legend was attached by the Greeks to the Aithiopians through their remoteness from the Mediterranean world is no explanation; nor is it a very cogent conjecture that the fable may have arisen from misunderstood reports of an African five-month year, for which there is some evidence in modern times. With the utmost diffidence I venture to make a suggestion which, whether it carries conviction or not, is at least so obvious that it can hardly fail to have occurred to many schdiars in the past. My one excuse must be that it does not seem to be mentioned either in the more ordinary books of reference, where it might be expected to appear, or in any other works which have come my way.
page 35 note 1 N.H. VI. 190; VII. 27 and 29, etc.
page 35 note 2 III. 85.
page 35 note 3 560 sqq.
page 35 note 4 Vide Gcog. Graec. Min., ed. I., Bernhardy, pp. 126–7 and 213–4Google Scholar.
page 35 note 5 1112 sqq.
page 35 note 6 III. 21, 3; 22, 1.
page 35 note 7 7 VII. 69, 1.
page 36 note 1 Vide , Erman, Aeg. Gr. (3), p. 310Google Scholar; and Meyer, E., Gesch. d. Altertums I. 2 (3), p. 56Google Scholar.
page 36 note 2 Budge, , Egyptian Dictionary, p. cxxxviii, signs 26–9Google Scholar.
page 36 note 3 In Recueil de Travaux, Vol. XXXIX. 1/2 (1920), p. 24Google Scholar.
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page 36 note 5 Vide Thesaurus (Didot), Vol. V., col. 522.
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