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ὀκτωκαίδεκα: cf. 13. 1 n. for height of Nile rise.

The disgusting remedy is a genuine piece of Egyptian medicine; Maspero (C., p. 315) suggests that it was employed for the natural ammonia in it, and thinks it was sometimes really effective.

ἑκατόν. The obelisk now at Heliopolis is only sixty-six feet high, but a great part of it is buried by the rise of the soil level; it was erected by Senosret I, of the twelfth dynasty (Baedeker, p. 117). The largest obelisk in the world, that before the Lateran, is over a hundred feet high, and no doubt still larger ones have perished; but H.'s figure, 150 feet, is suspiciously big.

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