Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Nile” in book 2, chapter 150, section 4 of Herodotus, The Histories:
.../www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/strict"> This, I was told, had happened when the Egyptian lake was dug, except that the work went on not by night but by day. The Egyptians bore the earth dug out by them to the Nile , to be caught and scattered (as was to be expected) by the river. Thus is this lake said to have been dug.
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