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ἀπαρτί. H. repeats this ‘exact’ figure (which = about 115 miles) in iv. 41, but it is too great; the narrowest part of the isthmus is only seventy miles ‘from sea to sea’. Strabo (803) gives ‘1,000 stades’ from Pelusium to the Red Sea; this road measure may be the cause of H.'s mistake. But Posidonius made it even greater, putting the breadth at ‘less than 1,500 stades’.

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