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AιΘιοπεσ Makpobioi

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Hugh Last
Hugh Last
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St. John's College, Oxford
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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.

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Research Article
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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 17 , Issue 1 , January 1923 , pp. 35 - 36
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1923

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page 35 note 1 N.H. VI. 190; VII. 27 and 29, etc.

page 35 note 2 III. 85.

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