L - Delta
Strabon, Geographia
Passus 17, 1, 04 [b] (C 788): Δέλτα
| Date: | AD 15 - 23 about? |
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| Status: | chorion |
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| Details: | 'The Nile flows from the Aethiopian boundaries towards the north in a straight line to the district (chorion) called Delta, and then, being "split at the head", as Platon says, the Nile makes this place as it were the vertex of a triangle, the sides of the triangle being formed by the streams that split in either direction and extend to the sea - the one on the right to the sea at Pelousion and the other on the left to the sea at Kanopos and the neighbouring Herakleion, as it is called, - and the base by the coast-line between Pelousion and the Herakleion.' |
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