# Naturalis Historia 5.60

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

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60] Aegyptus super ceteram antiquitatis gloriam XX urbium sibi Amase regnante habitata praefert, nunc quoque multis etiamsi ignobilibus frequens. celbrantur tamen Apollinis, mox Leucotheae, Diospolis Magna, eadem Thebe portarum centum nobilis fama, Coptos, Indicarum Arabicarumque mercium Nilo proximum emporium, mox Veneris oppidum et iterum Iovis ac Tentyris, infra quod Abydus, Memnonis regia et Osiris templo inclutum,VII:D p. in Libyam remotum a flumine.

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