Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

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Aethiŏpes

A name said to be from αἴθω and ὤψ, but perhaps really a foreign name corrupted, was applied

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1.

most generally to all black or dark races of men;

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2.

to all the inhabitants of Inner Africa, south of Mauretania, the Great Desert, and Egypt, from the Atlantic to the Red Sea and Indian Ocean, and to some of the dark races of Asia; and

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3.

most specifically to the inhabitants of the land south of Egypt, which was called Aethiopia (q.v.).