Herodotus' Histories

egypt

Life events

  • Nile-borne silt built up Egypt’s land as an addition.(Book 2 · §9–16 · 📍 Egypt)
    • With: Nile
    • “the greater part had been won as an addition by the Egyptians”
  • The Nile’s alluvial deposits formed the Delta, which the narrator says appeared lately.(Book 2 · §9–16 · 📍 Delta)
    • With: Nile
    • “their Delta at any rate is alluvial, and has appeared (so to speak) lately”

Book 2 · §139–143

  • with Sabacos (Sabacos reigned as king over Egypt.) “and the Ethiopian was king over Egypt for fifty years”
  • with Anysis (Anysis returned to rule Egypt.) “Then when the Ethiopian had gone away out of Egypt, the blind man came back from the fen-country and began to rule again”

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