Ethiopian Sea

P. L. 2. 641; P. L. 4. 161, 165. That part of the circumfluent ocean south of the known world was in antiquity called the Ethiopian Sea. (Mela 1. 4.) A survival of this conception is found on modern maps (e. g., Mercat or, p. 49) which mark as Ethiopian the portion of the ocean between southern Africa and South America. The Ethiopian Sea of Dionysius Periegetes, according to the following pa age, includes at least the Indian Ocean: “Where first the sun shines on men, they call it the eastern and the Indian swell of the sea, and close by they name the Erythraean, and toward the south, where is spread out a great hollow of land without a dwelling, consumed by fierce suns, the Ethiopian.” (LI. 36-40). chas, in describing the east coast of Africa, speaks of shore of the Ethiopian Sea. {Pilgrimes 1. 116.) it Puras the His concepby Milton, for a ship sailing from the Indies “through the wide Ethiopian to the Cape” would pa tion is the one accepted through the midst of the Indian Ocean. Etruria. See Tuscany. 133