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[3] Beyond Heliopolis, there is no great distance—in Egypt, that is:1 the narrow land has a length of only fourteen days' journey up the river. Between the aforesaid mountain ranges, the land is level, and where the plain is narrowest it seemed to me that there were no more than thirty miles between the Arabian mountains and those that are called Libyan. Beyond this Egypt is a wide land again. Such is the nature of this country.

1 ὡς εἶναι αἰγύπτου; so much of the Nile valley being outside Egypt. But it is possible that the words may mean “no great distance, for Egypt,” i.e. no great distance relatively to the size of the country.

Herodotus, with an English translation by A. D. Godley. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1920.

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