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The great Julius Caesar is made by Lucan to say that he would give up the civil war if he might but see the fountains of this far-famed river. Nero Caesar sent two centurions to examine the "Caput Nili." They reported that they saw the river rushing with great force from two rocks, and beyond that it was lost in immense marshes.
At posteriores, Arabico sinu, vt ante dictum, inter Asiam Africamque termino constituto, Africa eam contribuerunt. Nomen traxit ab Agypto Danai fratre; ante Aeria dicta. Terminatur a Septemtrione suo mari, id est, Agyptio, ab Ortu Arabia Petraa et dicto sinu; a Meridie Athiopia, ab Occasu Cyrenaica. Longa est a Pelusiaco Nili ostio ad Catabathmum opidum milliar.
Caterum a tergo Agypti versus Meridiem, juxta sinistram Nili ripam, Libya est exterior ad Athiopiam extensa: nunc est Elfocat desertum et Gaoga. Cyrenaica, Africa Minor, Libya deserta, Troglodyta et Garmantes.
DCC. Latitudo inter duo promontoria, Hesperium, vulgo C. Verde, et Aromata, quod est juxta fauces Arabici sinus, vulgo nunc Coarda fui, mill. DL. Terra ipsa, nisi qua interno mari accedit, obscure veteribus nota. Vltra autem Nili fontes ac montes Luna prorsus incognita.
A man many do well or ill everywhere; but if what Bias says be true, that the greatest part is the worse part, or what the Preacher says: there is not one good of a thousand: "Rari quippe boni: numero vix sunt totidem quot Thebarum portae, vel divitis ostia Nili," the contagion is very dangerous in the crowd.
Gonz. Fern. Ovied. I. 2. c. 3. Plin. I. 9. c. 58. de Maribus Nili. Joan. Leo Afric. I. 9. de Nilo. Our author has got into a strange dilemma, by confounding crocodiles and serpents under one denomination. Plin. and Leo, ub. cit. Plin. I. 2. c. 67. Plin. I. 6. c. 31. This subject will be discussed in the Fifth Part of our work; being much too extensive to admit of elucidation in a note.
And he begat six sons, Riksha was born of the womb of Dhumini, Dushmanta and Parameshthin, of Nili, and Jahnu, Jala and Rupina were born in that of Kesini. All the tribes of the Panchalas are descended from Dushmanta and Parameshthin. And the Kushikas are the sons of Jahnu of immeasurable prowess. And Riksha who was older than both Jala and Rupina became king.
And he begat six sons, Riksha was born of the womb of Dhumini, Dushmanta and Parameshthin, of Nili, and Jahnu, Jala and Rupina were born in that of Kesini. All the tribes of the Panchalas are descended from Dushmanta and Parameshthin. And the Kushikas are the sons of Jahnu of immeasurable prowess. And Riksha who was older than both Jala and Rupina became king.
At clarissimi omnium fuere Nigritae; a Nigro flumine dicti; et Nubiorum gens magna, unde hodieque vastissima regio dicitur Nubia. Ea autem Athiopiae pars quae Nilo utrimque adjacet, Athiopia dicitur sub Agypto; atque in ea ad Nili paludes seu lacus Cinnamomifera regio. At totum sinus Arabici laevum larus Arabes tenuere Troglodytae, unde regio ipsa Troglodytica.
I am condemned to pass a long interval of my life in solitude, as a man suspected of infection is refused admission into cities; and must linger in obscurity, till my conduct shall convince the world, that I may be approached without hazard. I am, &c. No. 175. Rari quippe boni, numerus vix est totidem quot Thebarum portoe, vel divitis ostia Nili. JUV. Sat. xiii. 26.
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