Note 271 — Chapter XII · EGYPT. (continued 2)
William P. (William Purdie) Dickson translation
Aristides (Or. xlviii. p. 485, Dind.) names Coptos the Indian and Arabian entrepôt. In the romance of Xenophon the Ephesian (iv. 1), the Syrian robbers resort to Coptos, “for there a number of merchants pass through, who are travelling to Aethiopia and India.”