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σπειρομένην. H. contrasts ‘cultivated’ Egypt (i.e. Upper Egypt and the south parts of the Delta) with the marshes of the Delta (c. 92).

μνήμην: not ‘practising the memory’, but ‘caring for the records of the past’. For λογιώτατοι cf. i. 1. 1; ‘most skilled in history.’

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