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XLIII. The height of the Nile in flood at Elephantine is twenty- eight cubits, at Mendes and Xois low Nile is seven cubits, and at Memphis middle Nile is fourteen cubits; these figures are to be compared with the twenty-eight days of the Moon's revolution, the seven-day phase of the Moon, and the fourteen days' Moon, or full moon.
He is generally identified with Julius Pollux. Published an Onomasticon, or classified vocabulary; cf. Sections 16, 17. Published a collection of declamations, or school rhetorical exercises on set themes; cf. Section 17. Came from Egypt; cf. Section 24; Xois and Thmuis were in that country.
My father was an obscure person barely above a slave; he had in fact been one south of Xois and Thmuis; my mother a common sempstress.
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