Note 223 — Chapter XII · EGYPT.
William P. (William Purdie) Dickson translation
The alliance of the Palmyrenes and the Blemyes is pointed to by the notice of the vita Firmi, c. 3, and by the statement, according to Zosimus, i. 71, that Ptolemais fell away to the Blemyes (comp. Eusebius, Hist. Eccl. vii. 32). Aurelian only negotiated with these (Vita, 34, 41); it was Probus who first drove them again out of Egypt (Zosimus, l.c.; Vita, 17).