@PHKHerodot II
13. The priests
also gave me a
strong proof
concerning
this land as
follows, namely that in
the reign of
king Moiris,
whenever the
river reached a
height of at least eight
cubits it
watered Egypt
below
Memphis; and
not yet nine hundred years
had gone by
since the
death of
Moiris, when I
heard these things from
the priests:
now however,
unless the
river rises to
sixteen cubits, or fifteen at
the least, it
does not go
over the land.
I think too
that those Egyptians
who dwell
below the lake
of Moiris and
especially in
that region which is
called the
Delta, if that
land continues
to grow in
height according to
this
proportion
and to
increase
similarly in extent, will
suffer for all
remaining
time, from the
Nile not
overflowing their land, that
same thing
which they
themselves
said that the
Hellenes would at some
time suffer: for
hearing that
the whole land
of the
Hellenes has rain and is not
watered by
rivers as theirs
is, they said
that the
Hellenes would at some
time be
disappointed
of a great hope
and would
suffer the ills of famine.
This saying
means that if
the god shall
not send them
rain, but shall allow drought
to prevail for a
long time, the
Hellenes will
be destroyed
by hunger; for they have in
fact no other
supply of
water to save
them except
from Zeus alone.
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