# Naturalis Historia 5.59

Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, Book 5. Latin.

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59] Dicionis Aegyptiae esse incipit a fine Aethiopiae Syene; ita vocatur paeninsula M passuum ambitu, in qua castra sunt, latere Arabiae, et ex adverso insula est IIII, Philae,DC p. a Nili fissura, unde appellari diximus Delta. hoc spatium edidit Artemidorus et in eo CCL oppida fuisse, Iuba CCCC p., Aristocreon ab Elephantide ad mare DCCL. Elephantis insula intra novissimum catarracten IIII p. et supra Syenen XVI habitatur, navigationis Aegyptiae finis, ab Alexandria DLXXXV p.: in tantum erravere supra scripti. ibi Aethiopicae veneunt naves; namque eas plicatiles umeris transferunt, quotiens ad catarractas ventum est.

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