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ETHIOPIA, or AETHIOPIA (Gr. AWunria), the ancient classical name of a district of north-eastern Africa, bounded on the N. by Egypt and on the E. by the Red Sea.1 The application of the name has varied considerably at different times. In the Homeric poems the A ...

... the Antonines. The Afthiopis (AldiorU), in five books, was so called from the Aethiopian Memnon, who became the ally of the Trojans after the death of Hector. As the opening shows, it took up the narrative from the close of the Iliad. It begins with the famou ...

... ight at Pelusium, and many intrigues, conquered Egypt (343); Nectanebus fled to Ethiopia. Artaxcrxes used his victory with great cruelty; he plundered the Egyptian temples and is said to have killed the Apis. After his return to Susa, Bagoas ruled the court an ...

... NICLES). Asa was succeeded by his son Jehoshaphat. " Cushite " may designate an Ethiopian or, more probably, an Arabian (Cush, the " father " of the Sabaeans, Gen. x. 7). " If by Zerah the Ethiopian or Sabaean prince be meant, the only real difficulty of the n ...

... ite inscriptions (published by D. H. Vluller in J. T. Bent's Sacral City of the Ethiopians, 1893), and in inscription at Matara (published by C. C. Rossini, Rendiconti Accad. Lincei, 1896). As a literary language it survived its use as a vernacular, but it is ...

... e name of the Jacobite Church, and has numerous adherents in Armenia, Egypt and Ethiopia. See R. L. Ottley, The Doctrine of the Incarnation, ii. 97 ff. ; A. Harnack, History 0} Dogma, iv. passim; F. Loofs, Dogmengeschichte (4th ed., 1906), 297 f., and the art. ...

... niidae, from the name Nectar inia invented in 1881 by Illiger. They inhabit the Ethiopian, Indian, and Australian regions,2 and, with some notable exceptions, the species mostly have but a limited range. They are considered to have their nearest allies in the ...

... rp. script, orient, and by R. Basset in the Patrologia orient., and that of the Ethiopian synaxarium was begun by 1. Guidi in the Patrologia orient. The Armenian synaxarium, called the synaxarium of Ter Israel was published at Constantinople in 1834. See S. A. ...

... language. About the 1st century B.C., however, the semi-barbarous rulers of the Ethiopian kingdoms of Mcroe and Napata contrived the " Meroitic " alphabet, founded on Egyptian writing, and comprising both a hieroglyphic and a cursive form (see ETHIOPIA). As ye ...