# Naturalis Historia 5.63

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

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63] Mareotis lacus a meridiana urbis parte euripo e Canopico ostio mittit ex mediterraneo commercia, insulas quoque plures amplexus,XXX traiectu,CCL ambitu, ut tradit Claudius Caesar. alii schoenos in longitudinem patere XL faciunt schoenumque stadia XXX: ita fieri longitudinis CL p., tantundem et latitudinis.

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