Rubrum mare

( the Red sea ), is situate between Arabia, Egypt, and Æthiopia, and is often called Erythræum mare, and confounded with the Arabic us sinus, and the Indian sea. Pliny , bk. 6 , chs. 23 & 24.— Livy , bk. 36 , ch. 17 ; bk. 42 , ch. 52 ; bk. 45 , ch. 9 .— Virgil , Æneid , bk. 8 , li. 686 .— Lucan , bk. 8 , li. 853 .