We Dismiss Then Our Opinion Of The Ionians, And Express A Judgment Of
Our Own On This Matter Also, That
Egypt is all that land which is
inhabited by Egyptians, just as Kilikia is that which is inhabited by
Kilikians
And Assyria that which is inhabited by Assyrians, and we
know of no boundary properly speaking between Asia and Libya except
the borders of Egypt. If however we shall adopt the opinion which is
commonly held by the Hellenes, we shall suppose that the whole of
Egypt, beginning from the Cataract and the city of Elephantine, is
divided into two parts and that it thus partakes of both the names,
since one side will thus belong to Libya and the other to Asia; for
the Nile from the Cataract onwards flows to the sea cutting Egypt
through in the midst; and as far as the city of Kercasoros the Nile
flows in one single stream, but from this city onwards it is parted
into three ways; and one, which is called the Pelusian mouth, turns
towards the East; the second of the ways goes towards the West, and
this is called the Canobic mouth; but that one of the ways which is
straight runs thus, - when the river in its course downwards comes to
the point of the Delta, then it cuts the Delta through the midst and
so issues out to the sea. In this we have a portion of the water of
the river which is not the smallest nor the least famous, and it is
called the Sebennytic mouth.
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