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Μαρέης: the frontier garrison of Egypt (cf. 30. 2 n.) on the west under the Saite dynasty, on the well-known Mareotic Lake.

Ἄπιος: a place called ‘Apis’ lay (Strabo, 799) twelve miles west of Paraetonium and five days' journey from the oracle of Ammon; it was over 150 miles due west of Alexandria. But this place is obviously too remote to be the ‘Apis’ mentioned here, which probably lay a little south of Naucratis.

As Isis (to whom the cow was sacred) was especially worshipped in this region, Wiedemann thinks the reason given here improbable, and that the real question was—should they join Inaros in revolt or remain loyal to the Great King? This is a probable date for the oracle, but the two explanations are consistent; Inaros belonged to the Egyptian party among the Libyans, who abstained from cowflesh (cf. iv. 186); but these Libyans wished to be free from Egyptian restrictions, and hence were unwilling to join in the revolt.

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