They could scarcely be real Indians; and the Aethiopians, sometimes known by that name, were never used by the ancients as guards or followers: they were the
trifling, though costly objects of female and royal luxury
(Terent. Eunuch. act. i. scene ii Sueton. in August. c. 83,
with a good note of Casaubon, in Caligula, c. 57.).