# Naturalis Historia 5.43

Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, Book 5. Latin.

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43] Interiore autem ambitu Africae ad meridiem versus superque Gaetulos, intervenientibus desertis, primi omnium Libyes Aegyptii, deinde Leucoe Aethiopes habitant. super eos Aethiopum gentes Nigritae a quo dictum est flumine, Gymnetes Pharusi, iam oceanum attingentes quos in Mauretaniae fine diximus Perorsi. ab his omnibus vastae solitudines orientem versus usque ad Garamantas Augilasque et Trogodytas, verissima opinione eorum, qui desertis Africae duas Aethiopias superponunt, et ante omnes Homeri, qui bipertitos tradit Aethiopas, ad orientem occasumque versos.

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