Note 640 — Chapter IV · Egypt
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Hdt. II. 30; Diod. I. 67; Strabo XVI. 770 and XVII. 786 (where they are said to have been still in Ethiopia in the days of the historian); Pliny, N.H. VI. 35 (30); Ptol. Geog. IV. 7 (Didot, i. p. 783); Hesych. s.v. Μαχλαίονας. On the authenticity of this story see Wiedemann, Hdt. II. 30, pp. 128 f., Ges. Aeg. pp. 137–8 (sceptical); Mallet, Prem. Étab. pp. 77 f. Herodotus says there were 240,000, Diodorus over 200,000. These numbers will not now be regarded as sceptically as they were in the last century.