Where south inclines westwards, the part of the world stretching farthest towards the sunset is Ethiopia [39,8] (nation), Africa Ethiopia ; this produces gold in abundance, and huge elephants, and all sorts of wild trees, and ebony, and the tallest and handsomest and longest-lived people.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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