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I have often mentioned the Egyptian oracle, and shall give an account of this, as it deserves. This oracle is sacred to Leto, and is situated in a great city by the Sebennytic arm of the Nahr an- Nil [31.1,30.166] (river), Africa Nile , on the way up from the sea.
I have often mentioned the Egyptian oracle, and shall give an account of this, as it deserves. This oracle is sacred to Leto, and is situated in a great city by the Sebennytic arm of the Nahr an- Nil [31.1,30.166] (river), Africa Nile , on the way up from the sea.
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+Kawm al-Farain [30.733,31.2] (deserted settlement), Kafr ash-Shaykh, Lower Egypt, Egypt, Africa
Buto
is the name of the city where this oracle is; I have already mentioned it. In
+Kawm al-Farain [30.733,31.2] (deserted settlement), Kafr ash-Shaykh, Lower Egypt, Egypt, Africa
Buto
there is a temple of
Apollo and
Artemis. The shrine of
Leto where the oracle is, is itself very great, and its outer court is sixty feet high.
[3] But what caused me the most wonder among the things apparent there I shall mention. In this precinct is the shrine of
Leto, the height and length of whose walls is all made of a single stone slab; each wall has an equal length and height; namely, seventy feet. Another slab makes the surface of the roof, the cornice of which is seven feet broad.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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