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Ἰχθυοφάγων. The ‘fish-eaters’ are placed by Pausanias (i. 33. 4) on the south coasts of the Red Sea; cf. Diod. iii. 15-20 for a marvellous account of them. The Persian messengers went ‘from Elephantine’ to ‘fetch’ them, as the place whence the caravans started south-east from the Nile.

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