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ἦκται. It was from the Nile to the Bitter Lakes; here it turned almost at a right angle, following thenceforward pretty much the line of the Suez Canal. The part of it running west and east was on the line of the ‘Fresh Water Canal’ (dug 1858-63); it was made along the natural depression, the Wadi Tûmilât, through which Lord Wolseley advanced in the Tel el Kebir campaign of 1882.

Patumus is the Pithom of Exod. i. 11, about ten miles west of Ismailia, the Egyptian Pi-tûmû (i. e. place of the god Tûmû), and has been excavated by Naville (E. E. F., 1903, 4th ed.). For ‘Arabian’ cf. 8. 1 (‘the Arabian Mountain’), for the geography generally 8. 3 n.

κατύπερθε in both cases = ‘south of’. The subject to ὀρώρυκται is ‘the canal’, and τὰ πρὸς . ἔχοντα is an accusative of respect, with τοῦ πεδίου τοῦ . depending on it as a partitive genitive. Some, however, make τὰ πρὸς Ἀραβίην ἔχοντα subject.

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