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δύο ἡμερέων. Sayce says (J. of P. xiv. 260) that it is only in the region of the Fayûm that the Nile rises so much; ‘H. (wrongly) assumed that what was true of one part of its course might be true of other parts.’ However, H. may still be speaking of the region of the Delta, and mean that not only the Delta, but the adjoining country, was flooded. For a more elaborate explanation cf. 8. 3 n.

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