Ethiopia
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Land south of Egypt; home of the gymnosophists and the fabled Table of the Sun. The Ethiopian eunuch came from there to the temple in Jerusalem.
Pope Clement VIII, Jerome's Prefaces, On Worship
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II. JEROME TO PAULINUS.
— Apollonius went to Ethiopia to see the gymnosophists and the Table of the Sun
"he went on to Ethiopia, to see the gymnosophists and the most famous Table of the Sun in the sand"
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II. JEROME TO PAULINUS.
— The eunuch came from Ethiopia (the farthest ends of the world) to the temple
"who came from Ethiopia, that is, from the farthest ends of the world, to the temple"
Preface and Praise of Sacred Scripture
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Praises of Moses from Scripture and the Fathers
— In the 67th year of Moses, in Ethiopia the son of the Sun (Phaethon) was consumed by fire
"and moreover in Ethiopia the son of the Sun, as they say, Phaethon, was consumed by fire"