[Footnote 51: The reproach of Porphyry; but he likewise
imputes to the Roman the same barbarous custom, which, A. U.
C. 657, had been finally abolished. Dumaetha, Daumat al
Gendai, is noticed by Ptolemy (Tabul. p. 37, Arabia, p. 9 -
29) and Abulfeda, (p. 57,) and may be found in D'Anville's
maps, in the mid-desert between Chaibar and Tadmor.]