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Herodotus and the Missing Nile

Herodotus and the Missing Nile HERODOTUS AND THE MISSING NILE BY J.W. BAXENDALE Herodotus II 19, final sentence, Oxford Text: TOCUTOC TE 8-r) zit The passage has caused difficulty among commentators, e.g. A.H. Sayce, H. I-III (London, 1883) "Everyone who has sailed on the Nile and felt the invigorating breezes of the desert will know that this statement is not true" and A.B. Lloyd, H. II (Leiden, 1976) "What does this mean"? A. Analysis of the difficulty. The Nile is a windy river and seems to have been so since the earliest recorded times'). Owing to the narrowness of the cultivated and inhabited part of Egypt, H. must, if he visited Egypt at all, have been on the Nile, or near it. He must have experienced winds there. Since he writes 'it produces no it follows either that he did not consider these winds aspaq' , or, if he did think they were `aupa5' , that he did not think they were , &1t01tve.oúc:rcxç' . B. Constraints imposed upon an interpreter of the passage (II 19) by statements of H. himself. 1. The Nile must be the only (l,wüvoç) river, in H.'s eyes, not to do what H, says it does not do. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Mnemosyne Brill

Herodotus and the Missing Nile

Baxendale, J.W.
Mnemosyne , Volume 47 (4): 433 – Jan 1, 1994
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© 1994 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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HERODOTUS AND THE MISSING NILE BY J.W. BAXENDALE Herodotus II 19, final sentence, Oxford Text: TOCUTOC TE 8-r) zit The passage has caused difficulty among commentators, e.g. A.H. Sayce, H. I-III (London, 1883) "Everyone who has sailed on the Nile and felt the invigorating breezes of the desert will know that this statement is not true" and A.B. Lloyd, H. II (Leiden, 1976) "What does this mean"? A. Analysis of the difficulty. The Nile is a windy river and seems to have been so since the earliest recorded times'). Owing to the narrowness of the cultivated and inhabited part of Egypt, H. must, if he visited Egypt at all, have been on the Nile, or near it. He must have experienced winds there. Since he writes 'it produces no it follows either that he did not consider these winds aspaq' , or, if he did think they were `aupa5' , that he did not think they were , &1t01tve.oúc:rcxç' . B. Constraints imposed upon an interpreter of the passage (II 19) by statements of H. himself. 1. The Nile must be the only (l,wüvoç) river, in H.'s eyes, not to do what H, says it does not do.

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Published: Jan 1, 1994

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