[Footnote 27: Strabo, l. xvi. p. 1127 - 1129. Plin. Hist.
Natur. vi. 32. Aelius Gallus landed near Medina, and marched
near a thousand miles into the part of Yemen between Mareb
and the Ocean. The non ante devictis Sabeae regibus, (Od.
i. 29,) and the intacti Arabum thesanri (Od. iii. 24) of
Horace, attest the virgin purity of Arabia.]