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{1} Black races are evidently known to the writer as
stretching all across Africa, one half looking West on to the
Atlantic, and the other East on to the Indian Ocean.
{2} The original use of the footstool was probably less to
rest the feet than to keep them (especially when bare) from
a floor which was often wet and dirty.
{3} The [Greek] or seat, is occasionally called ‘high,’ as
being higher than the [Greek] or low footstool. It was prob-
ably no higher than an ordinary chair is now, and seems to
have had no back.
{4} Temesa was on the West Coast of the toe of Italy, in
what is now the gulf of Sta Eufemia. It was famous in remote
times for its copper mines, which, however, were worked
out when Strabo wrote.
{5} i.e. ‘with a current in it’—see illustrations and map
near the end of bks. v. and vi. respectively.
{6} Reading [Greek] for [Greek], cf. ‘Od.’ iii. 81 where the
same mistake is made, and xiii. 351 where the mountain is
called Neritum, the same place being intended both here
and in book xiii.
{7} It is never plausibly explained why Penelope cannot

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