Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Aegean sea” in book 2, chapter 97, section 1 of Herodotus, The Histories:
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When the Nile overflows the land, only the towns are seen high and dry above the water, very like the islands in the Aegean sea . These alone stand out, the rest of Egypt being a sheet of water. So when this happens, folk are not ferried, as usual, in the course of the stream, but clean over the plain.
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