Note 152 — The very remote Antiquity attributed to certain Nations is not supported by History.
Reading edition
Tacit. Annal. lib. ii. cap. 60.
N. B.—According to the interpretation given by Ammianus, lib. xvii. cap. 4., of the hieroglyphics on the obelisk of Thebes, which is at present in Rome in the place of St John of Latran, it appears that a Rhamestes was styled, after the eastern manner, lord of the habitable earth; and that the history told to Germanicus was only a commentary on this inscription.