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Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
P. Vergilius Maro, Aeneid (ed. John Dryden) | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
P. Vergilius Maro, Georgics (ed. J. B. Greenough) | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
C. Valerius Catullus, Carmina (ed. Leonard C. Smithers) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Aristophanes, Clouds (ed. William James Hickie) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Bacchylides, Odes (ed. Diane Arnson Svarlien) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Pindar, Pythian 4 (ed. Steven J. Willett) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Flavius Josephus, Against Apion (ed. William Whiston, A.M.) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Browsing named entities in M. Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia (ed. Sir Edward Ridley). You can also browse the collection for Nile or search for Nile in all documents.
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One-third of all the world,Compare Herodotus, ii., 16: 'For they all say that the earth is divided into three parts, Europe, Asia and Libya.' See Bunbury's 'Ancient Geography,' i., 145, 146. I read par in this passage, preferring it to pars with Francken. if fame we trust,
Is Libya; yet by winds and sky she proves
Equal to Europe; for the shores of Nile
No more than Scythian Tanais are remote
From furthest Gades, where with bending coast,
Yielding a place to Ocean, Europe parts
From Afric shores. Yet falls the larger world
To Asia only. From the former two
Issues the Western wind; but Asia's right
Touches the Southern limits and her left
The Northern tempest's home, and of the East
She's mistress to the rising of the Sun.
All that is fertile of the Afric lands
Lies to the west, but even here abound
No wells of water: though the Northern wind,
Infrequent, leaving us with skies serene,
Falls there in showers. Not gold nor wealth of brass
It yields the seeker; pure and unalloyed
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