The Adyrmachidae extend further west in H. than in Scylax (107; G. G. M. i. 82), who makes them ‘ruled by Egyptians’.
φθεῖρας. For ‘lice-eating’ cf. the modern Hottentots and 109. 2 n.
τῷ βασιλέϊ. For this ‘droit du seigneur’ cf. Westermarck, p. 76 seq., who quotes parallels, but argues that it is not to be taken as evidence of primitive promiscuity; it prevailed among the Berbers (St. Martin, p. 43) till the nineteenth century.
Πλυνός: i. e. the Gulf of Sollum, which has been brought into such prominence recently (1911) in the Italo-Turkish war, as the west limit of Egypt. Here the Catabathmus Major forms a natural frontier.
