. History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians;. was favored by their position near Bab-el-Man deb, — a dreaded passage named by the Arabs the Gate of Tears. The Abyssinian king-dom was destined soon to in-crease, as in the remote time when it had threatened the empire of the Pharaohs ; but its ambition turned towards Arabia, across the narrow barrier of the Red Sea, and it ruled over those Home-rites whom Augustus, less fortunate, vainly Romans possessed in Africa little more than the coast-line. Moreover, except in Cyrenaïca, the nom
. History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians;. was favored by their position near Bab-el-Man deb, — a dreaded passage named by the Arabs the Gate of Tears. The Abyssinian king-dom was destined soon to in-crease, as in the remote time when it had threatened the empire of the Pharaohs ; but its ambition turned towards Arabia, across the narrow barrier of the Red Sea, and it ruled over those Home-rites whom Augustus, less fortunate, vainly Romans possessed in Africa little more than the coast-line. Moreover, except in Cyrenaïca, the nomads, from Egypt to Lake Trito, were still the true masters of the country, some permanently settled m a few oases, or wan- 1 Bust, with radiated crown, of the king, with the aegis, a trident on the shoulder. Froma gold coin. Head in brorize, discovered at Cyrene in the ruins of the temple of Apollo, now in theBritish Museum. M. Trivier thinks it to be the fragment of a portrait^statue erected in thesanctuary where the head was discovered. Cf. Gazette arckeol. 1878, p. 60, and pi. LIBYAN CHIEF ^ 32 THE TRIUMVIRATES AXD THE REVOLUTION, 79 TO 30. dering about with their flocks, otliers living by robberies. TheseLibyans, says Diodorus, ? sleep in the open air, and are scarcelyabove the level of brutes. Their chiefs possess no towns, but liaAecertain rude store-houses, usually situated near a well, where theykeep their provisions. The stranger is to them an enemy; theykill all whom they meet. They emerge unexpectedly from thedesert, carry off whatever falls in their way, and are gone assuddenly as they came. A*L\A2 B.\2Ii\EY2 ; bust of the king, surrounded by two ears of corn. Gold coin.
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