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Next to Gaza is Raphia,625 where a battle was fought between Ptolemy the Fourth and Antiochus the Great.626 Then Rhinocolura,627 so called from the colonists, whose noses had been mutilated. Some Ethiopian invaded Egypt, and, instead of putting the malefactors to death, cut off their noses, and settled them at Rhinocolura, supposing that they would not venture to return to their own country, on account of the disgraceful condition of their faces.