This, too, that the priests told me about Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa Egypt, is a strong proof: when Moeris was king,
if the river rose as much as thirteen feet, it watered all of Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa Egypt below Mit Rahina
[31.25,29.85] (inhabited place), Giza, Upper Egypt, Egypt,
AfricaMemphis.Supposing this statement to be true,
Moeris must have been king much more than 900
years before Hdt.: 900 years being much too
short a period for a rise of eight cubits in the height of the Nile valley.
Moeris had not been dead nine hundred years when I
heard this from the priests. But now, if the river does not rise at least
twenty-six or twenty-five feet, the land is not flooded.
And, in my opinion, the Egyptians who inhabit the
lands lower down the river than Birkat Qarun [30.666,29.466] (salt lake), Egypt, Africalake Moeris, and especially what is called the Delta—if this land of theirs
rises in the same proportion and broadens likewise in extent, and the Nahr an- Nil [31.1,30.166] (river),
AfricaNile no longer floods it—will forever after be in the same straits as
they themselves once said the Greeks would be;