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This, too, that the priests told me about Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa Egypt , is a strong proof: when Moeris was king, if the river rose as much as thirteen feet, it watered all of Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa Egypt below Mit Rahina [31.25,29.85] (inhabited place), Giza, Upper Egypt, Egypt, Africa Memphis . 1 Moeris had not been dead nine hundred years when I heard this from the priests. But now, if the river does not rise at least twenty-six or twenty-five feet, the land is not flooded.
This, too, that the priests told me about Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa Egypt , is a strong proof: when Moeris was king, if the river rose as much as thirteen feet, it watered all of Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa Egypt below Mit Rahina [31.25,29.85] (inhabited place), Giza, Upper Egypt, Egypt, Africa Memphis . 1 Moeris had not been dead nine hundred years when I heard this from the priests. But now, if the river does not rise at least twenty-six or twenty-five feet, the land is not flooded.
[2] And, in my opinion, the
Egyptians who inhabit the lands lower down the river than
Birkat Qarun [30.666,29.466] (salt lake), Egypt, Africa
lake Moeris
, and especially what is called the Delta—if this land of theirs rises in the same proportion and broadens likewise in extent, and the
Nahr an- Nil [31.1,30.166] (river), Africa
Nile
no longer floods it—will forever after be in the same straits as they themselves once said the
Greeks would be;
[3] for, learning that all the
Greek land is watered by rain, but not by river water like theirs, they said that one day the
Greeks would be let down by what they counted on, and miserably starve: meaning that, if heaven send no rain for the
Greeks and afflict them with drought, the
Greeks will be overtaken by famine, for there is no other source of water for them except
Zeus alone.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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