Now as soon as the Persians took possession of Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa Egypt , they became the caretakers of the entryway into it, having it provisioned with water in the way I have described.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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