Ethiopia
place · 5 works · 7 mentions · 11 anchored passages
Aethiopia
in the texts
The Histories
The region south of Egypt beyond Elephantine, reached by Herodotus's account of upriver travel and settled by the Egyptian Deserters.
this extended from the northern sea towards Aethiopia, and the other, the Arabian gulf of which I shall speak, extended from the south towards Syria;
The country above Elephantine now begins to be inhabited by Ethiopians:
half the water flows north towards Egypt, and the other half south towards Ethiopia.
The Freedom of the Seas (Mare Liberum)
Region cited as the destination of an early Spanish commercial voyage.
Caelius Antipater also has told us in his writings that he himself saw a Spaniard who had sailed from Spain to Ethiopia on a commercial voyage.
Adversus Judaeos
A place named as the other boundary of Nebuchadnezzar's kingdom, contrasted with Christ's unbounded reign.
if Nebuchadnezzar with his petty kings, from India to Ethiopia he held the bounds of his kingdom;
De ieiunio adversus psychicos
Region referenced in connection with Sennacherib's military intentions.
So, when Sennacherib king of the Assyrians, after many cities were already taken, was levelling blasphemies and threats at Israel through Rabshakeh, nothing else turned him from his purpose toward Ethiopia.
Cyropaedia
Southern boundary of Cyrus's empire.
From that time on his empire was bounded on the east by the Indian Ocean, on the north by the Black Sea, on the west by Cyprus and Egypt, and on the south by Ethiopia.
For it was bounded on the east by the Indian Ocean, on the north by the Black Sea, on the west by Cyprus and Egypt, and on the south by Ethiopia.