U01 - Syene (Assuan)
Strabon, Geographia
Passus 2, 5, 12 [f] (C 118): Συηνη
| Date: | AD 15 - 23 about? |
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| Details: | 'At any rate, when Gallus was praefectus of Egypt, I accompanietd him and ascended the Nile as far as Syene and the frontiers of Aethiopia, and I learned that as many as one hundred and twenty vessels were sailing from Myos Hormos to India, whereas formerly, under the Ptolemaeic kings, only a very few ventured to undertake the voyage and to carry on traffic in Indian merchandise.' |
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