Further, the length of the seacoast of Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa Egypt itself is sixty “schoeni” 1 —of Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa Egypt , that is, as we judge it to be, reaching from the Plinthinete gulf to the Serbonian marsh, which is under the Casian mountain—between these there is this length of sixty schoeni.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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