Histories

This is enough of the story told by Etearchus the Ammonian; except he said that the Nasamonians returned, as the men of Shahhat [21.866,32.833] (inhabited place), Al Jabal al Akhdar, Libya, AfricaCyrene told me, and that the people to whose country they came were all wizards;

as to the river that ran past the city, Etearchus guessed it to be the Nahr an- Nil [31.1,30.166] (river), AfricaNile; and reason proves as much. For the Nahr an- Nil [31.1,30.166] (river), AfricaNile flows from Libya [17,25] (nation), AfricaLibya, right through the middle of it; and as I guess, reasoning about things unknown from visible signs, it rises proportionally as far away as does the Ister.[*](e)k tw=n i)/swn me/trwn is an obscure expression. What Hdt. appears to mean is, that as the Nahr an- Nil [31.1,30.166] (river), AfricaNile (according to him) flows first from W. to E. and then turns northward, so the Danube (river), Europe Danube flows first from W. to E. and then (as he says) from N. to S.; and so the rivers in a manner correspond: one crosses Africa (continent)Africa, the other Europe (continent)Europe.)