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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) 121 121 Browse Search
Frank Frost Abbott, Commentary on Selected Letters of Cicero 15 15 Browse Search
M. Tullius Cicero, Letters to and from Quintus (ed. L. C. Purser) 11 11 Browse Search
M. Tullius Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares (ed. L. C. Purser) 11 11 Browse Search
E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus (ed. E. T. Merrill) 10 10 Browse Search
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome 8 8 Browse Search
Frank Frost Abbott, Commentary on Selected Letters of Cicero 5 5 Browse Search
M. Tullius Cicero, Letters to Atticus (ed. L. C. Purser) 5 5 Browse Search
J. B. Greenough, Benjamin L. D'Ooge, M. Grant Daniell, Commentary on Caesar's Gallic War 3 3 Browse Search
Strabo, Geography (ed. H.C. Hamilton, Esq., W. Falconer, M.A.) 2 2 Browse Search
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, as invading the houses and stores of the country. The nilometer at Cairo has been erected for many centuries, but it is not nearly so ancient as that at Elephanta, which consists of a staircase between two walls descending to the Nile. One wall has engraved upon it a series of marks representing the hight to which the water has risen on certain occasions. The cubits here are divided into 14ths, or double digits, and measure 1 foot 8.625 inches. This nilometer was described by Strabo, 54 B. C. The nilometer at Memphis was transferred by Constantine to a church in the vicinity of the Serapeum of Alexandria; Julian sent it back to the building at Memphis, where it remained till its destruction by Theodosius. At the present day the rise is watched for with anxiety, and proclaimed by 4 criers. The object of the nilometers formerly was to settle the amount of taxation to be imposed upon the country. It may still be the basis of the impost of taxes in that overridden country.