[Endnote 145: (p. 183). _Paulus Orosius._--[Here we must note the omission of the name of Diodorus Siculus among the authors cited by Azurara, especially as he is, among all the ancient historians, the one who has left us the most important and circumstantial account of the Nile. The first Latin version of Diodorus by Poggio only appeared in 1472, nineteen years after Azurara had finished this chronicle. The works of Orosius were held in high estimation among the learned of the Middle Ages. This writer was born at Braga in Lusitania, agreeably to the opinion of some authors. (See _Fr. Leam de St. Thomas, bened. lusit. I_, ii, p. 308; and Baronius, an. 414.) His work, _Historiarum adversus Paganos_, which begins with the creation of the world and comes down to the year 316 of Jesus Christ, was printed for the first time in 1471, that is, eighteen years after Azurara had finished his Chronicle, but during the Middle Ages copies of this work were so multiplied that even in England the book was to be found in the hands of the Anglo-Saxon people (see Wright, _Essay on the State of Literature and Learning under the Anglo-Saxons_, p. 39), a detail which affords one proof the more of the literary relations between the Spanish peninsula, and the peoples and nations of the North in the first centuries of the Middle Ages.]--S. See _Dawn of Modern Geography_, pp. 353-5.] [Endnote 146: (p. 184). _Mossylon Emporion_ (_Mossille Nemporyo_).--[Azurara alters the name. The passage to which the Chronicler refers is the following:--_Et Ægyptum superiorem fluviumque Nilum, qui de litore incipientis maris Rubri videtur emergere in loco qui dicitur Musilon Emporium_, not _Mossile Nemporyo_. (_Orosius_, Bk. I, vi.)]--S. On this _Emporion_, see Bunbury's _Ancient Geography_, vol ii, pp. 692; _Solinus_, ch. lvi.] [Endnote 147: (p. 184). _Josepho Rabano._--[This is the celebrated author of the history of the Jews, Flavius Josephus, whose work was first composed in Syriac and afterwards in Greek. It was so much esteemed by the Emperor Titus that he ordered it to be put into the public library. The first Latin translation which was printed, according to some bibliographers, was in 1470, seventeen years after this Chronicle was finished.]--S.] [Endnote 148: (p. 184). _Meroë._--[On this African island the reader can consult _Ptolemy_, iv, 8; _Herodotus_, ii, 29; _Strabo_, Bks. XVII-XVIII; and, above all, _Diodorus Siculus_, i, 23, etc. The Master Peter quoted by Azurara is the famous Petrus Aliacus, or de Aliaco (d'Ailly), in his book _Imago Mundi_, finished in 1410: a book which had a great vogue in the fifteenth and even in the sixteenth century.]--S. Cf. also Pliny, _H. N._, ii, 73; v, 9; Cailliaud, _L'isle de Meroe_.]