Arabiae
Arabiae and ARABICUS MONS (τῆς Ἀραβίης, τὸ Ἀράβιον ὀ͂ρος: Jebel Mokattem, &c.), the name given by Herodotus (2.8) to the range of mountains which form the eastern border of the Nile-valley, and separated it from the part of Arabia W. of the Arabian Gulf. The range on the west side towards Libya he names, in the same way, Libyci Montes. [AEGYPTUS]
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.