Definition of "Æthiopians"

But now the Æthiopians diverted the flood, making cataracts, which they propt with timber, lining them alſo with mud and ſtraw, which the multitude of hands eaſily brought together.

1753, Heliodorus, Aethiopian Adventures: or, The history of Theagenes and Chariclea, translated from Greek, The Aethiopian History, page 263