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Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley) | 146 | 0 | Browse | Search |
M. Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia (ed. Sir Edward Ridley) | 106 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Pausanias, Description of Greece | 32 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Aeschylus, Suppliant Women (ed. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D.) | 16 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Isocrates, Speeches (ed. George Norlin) | 14 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Euripides, Helen (ed. E. P. Coleridge) | 12 | 0 | Browse | Search |
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Brookes More) | 12 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Flavius Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews (ed. William Whiston, A.M.) | 10 | 0 | Browse | Search |
John Conington, Commentary on Vergil's Aeneid, Volume 2 | 10 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Apollodorus, Library and Epitome (ed. Sir James George Frazer) | 8 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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“In the Delta of Egypt,” said Critias, “where, at its head, the stream of the Nile parts in two, there is a certain district called the Saitic. The chief city in this district is Sais—the home of King Amasis,Amasis (Aahmes) was king of Egypt 569-525 B.C., and a phil-Hellene; Cf. Hdt. ii. 162 ff.—the founder of which, they say, is a goddess whose Egyptian name is Neith,Neith is identified by Plutarch with Isis; Cf. Hdt. ii. 28. and in Greek, as they assert, Athena. These people profess to be great lovers of Athens and in a measure akin to our people here. And Solon said that when he travelled there he was held in great esteem amongst them; moreover, when he was questioning such of thei
the occurrence of a shifting of the bodies in the heavens which move round the earth, and a destruction of the things on the earth by fierce fire, which recurs at long intervals. At such times all they that dwell on the mountains and in high and dry places suffer destruction more than those who dwell near to rivers or the sea; and in our case the Nile, our Saviour in other ways, saves us also at such times from this calamity by rising high. And when, on the other hand, the Gods purge the earth with a flood of waters, all the herdsmen and shepherds that are in the mountains are saved,Cf. Laws677 B.