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The term aethiops can refer to a number of different things:

  • Aethiops, or æthiops or ethiops, refers to certain dark-colored compounds of metal.
  • Ethiops martial is the black oxide of iron.
  • Aethiops mineral is the black sulfide of mercury. Historically, it was prescribed for parasitic worms and all crudities and acrimony of the humours. It was reputedly infallible against the itch and other cutaneous diseases.
  • Zeus Aethiops an epithet of the Greek god Zeus.
  • Aethiops, a son of the Greek god Hephaestus from whom, according to Pliny the Elder (Nat Hist. 6.184-187), Ethiopia derived its name.


This article incorporates content from the 1728 Cyclopaedia, a publication in the public domain.

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870).




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