The Egyptians shun using Greek customs, and (generally speaking) the customs of all other peoples as well. Yet, though the rest are wary of this, there is a great city called +Akhmim [31.733,26.566] (inhabited place), Sawhaj, Upper Egypt, Egypt, Africa Khemmis , in the Theban district, near the New City.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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