Note 248 — Chapter XII · EGYPT.

The tropaea Niliaca, sub quibus Aethiops et Indus intremuit, in an oration probably held in the year 296 (Paneg. v. 5), apply to such a rencontre, not to the Egyptian insurrection; and the oration of the year 289 speaks of attacks of the Blemyes (Paneg. iii. 17).—Procopius, Bell. Pers. i. 19, reports the cession of the “Twelve-mile-territory” to the Nubians. It is mentioned as standing under the dominion, not of the Nubians, but of the Blemyes by Olympiodorus, fr. 37, Müll. and the inscription of Silko, C. I. Gr. 5072. The fragment recently brought to light of a Greek heroic poem as to the victory of a late Roman emperor over the Blemyes is referred by Bücheler (Rhein. Mus. xxxix. 279 f.) to that of Marcianus, in the year 451 (comp. Priscus, fr. 27).