According to most translations, Herodotus states that a Greek oracle was known to be from Egypt because she was "black", that the natives of the Nile region are "black with heat", and that Egyptians were "black skinned with woolly hair".[43] Lucian observes an Egyptian boy and notices that he is not merely black, but has thick lips.[42] Diodorus Siculus mentioned that the Aethiopians considered the Egyptians a colony.[10] Appollodorus, a Greek, calls Egypt the country of the black footed ones.[42] Aeschylus, a Greek poet, wrote that Egyptian seamen had "black limbs."[51] Greeks sometimes referred to Egyptians as Aethiopians[52] – not to be confused with inhabitants of the modern-day nation of Ethiopia who were instead referred to as Abyssinians or Habesha and their land as Abyssinia.