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ἀποστροφή: properly an ‘escape from’, so a ‘resource’ (viii. 109. 5). Here used oddly with gen. = ‘a resource for getting water’.

For the contrast between artificial irrigation and rainfall cf. Deuteronomy xi. 10-12. For rain in Egypt cf. iii. 10. 3 n.

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