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                    <TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><text><body><div xml:lang="eng" type="translation" n="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0016.tlg001.perseus-eng2"><div type="textpart" n="2" subtype="Book"><div type="textpart" n="137" subtype="chapter"><div n="2" type="textpart" subtype="section"><p>The blind man fled to the marshes, and the <name type="pers">Ethiopian</name> ruled <name key="tgn,7016833" type="place"><reg>Egypt
                              [30,27] (nation), Africa </reg><placeName key="tgn,7016833">Egypt</placeName></name> for fifty years, during which he distinguished himself for the
                        following: </p></div><div n="3" type="textpart" subtype="section"><p> he would never put to death any <name type="ethnic">Egyptian</name>
                        wrongdoer but sentenced all, according to the severity of their offenses, to
                        raise embankments in their native towns. Thus the towns came to stand yet
                        higher than before; </p></div><div n="4" type="textpart" subtype="section"><p> for after first being built on embankments made by the excavators of the
                        canals in the reign of <name type="pers">Sesostris</name>, they were yet
                        further raised in the reign of the <name type="pers">Ethiopian</name>. </p></div><div n="5" type="textpart" subtype="section"><p>Of the towns in <name key="tgn,7016833" type="place"><reg>Egypt [30,27]
                              (nation), Africa </reg><placeName key="tgn,7016833">Egypt</placeName></name> that were raised, in my opinion, <name key="tgn,7001287" type="place"><reg> +Tall Bastah [31.516,30.566] (deserted settlement),
                              Ash Sharqiyah, Lower Egypt, Egypt, Africa </reg><placeName key="tgn,7001287">Bubastis</placeName></name> is especially prominent, where there is also a temple of <name key="tgn,7001287" type="place"><reg> +Tall Bastah [31.516,30.566]
                              (deserted settlement), Ash Sharqiyah, Lower Egypt, Egypt, Africa </reg><placeName key="tgn,7001287">Bubastis</placeName></name>, a building most worthy of note. Other temples are greater and more
                        costly, but none more pleasing to the eye than this. <name key="tgn,7001287" type="place"><reg> +Tall Bastah [31.516,30.566] (deserted settlement),
                              Ash Sharqiyah, Lower Egypt, Egypt, Africa </reg><placeName key="tgn,7001287">Bubastis</placeName></name> is, in the <name type="ethnic">Greek</name> language, <name type="pers">Artemis</name>. </p></div></div><div type="textpart" n="138" subtype="chapter"><div n="1" type="textpart" subtype="section"><p><milestone unit="para"/>Her temple is of this description: except for the
                        entrance, it stands on an island; for two channels approach it from the
                           <name key="tgn,1127805" type="place"><reg>Nahr an- Nil [31.1,30.166]
                              (river), Africa</reg><placeName key="tgn,1127805">Nile</placeName></name> without mixing with one another, running as far as the entryway of
                        the temple, the one and the other flowing around it, each a hundred feet
                        wide and shaded by trees. </p></div></div></div></div></body></text></TEI>
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