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τὸν μέν: in loose apposition to ἕτερον κόλπον: H. then forgets his construction, and goes on to mention again the other gulf, i. e. the ‘Arabian Gulf’. The two gulfs, the Red Sea and that which is now Egypt, are conceived as ‘boring together’, so as to make their ‘ends’ (μυχούς) nearly meet, but ‘missing’ each other by ‘a little strip of land’.

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