Note 065 They could scarcely be real Indians; and the Aethiopians, sometimes known by that name, were never used by the ancients as guards or followers. they were the trifling, though costly objects of female and royal luxury, (Terent. Eunuch. act. i. scene ii Sueton. in August. c. 83, with a good note of Casaubon, in Caligula, c. 57.)]

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The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire —Fall In The East —Chapter 43