Yet the fame of Caled, or Ellisthaeus, the conqueror of Yemen, is celebrated in national songs and legends.] [Footnote 94: The negotiations of Justinian with the Axumites, or Aethiopians, are recorded by Procopius (Persic.l.i.c.19, 20) and John Malala, (tom.ii.p.

163--165, 193--196.) The historian of Antioch quotes the original narrative of the ambassador Nonnosus, of which Photius (Bibliot.Cod.

iii.) has preserved a curious extract.] [Footnote 95: The trade of the Axumites to the coast of India and Africa, and the Isle of Ceylon, is curiously represented by Cosmas Indicopleustes, (Topograph.Christian.l.ii.p.

132, 138, 139, 140, l.
xi.p.338, 339.)] [Footnote 9511: It appears by the important inscription discovered by Mr.Salt at Axoum, and from a law of Constantius, (16th Jan.

356, inserted in the Theodosian Code, l.