Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Meroe” in book 2, chapter 29, section 6 of Herodotus, The Histories:
...xt="ptext" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/strict"> Having traversed this part in forty days as I have said, you take boat again and so travel for twelve days until you come to a great city called Meroe , which is said to be the capital of all Ethiopia.
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