The detailed account of Strabo makes the invaders fail before Marsuabae: this cannot be the same place as Mariaba.

Ukert observes, that Aelius Gallus would not have failed for want of water before Mariaba.

(See M.Guizot's note above.) "Either, therefore, they were different places, or Strabo is mistaken." (Ukert, Geographic der Griechen und Romer, vol.i.p.

181.) Strabo, indeed, mentions Mariaba distinct from Marsuabae.

Gibbon has followed Pliny in reckoning Mariaba among the conquests of Gallus.