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[2] But if we follow the belief of the Greeks, we shall consider all Egypt commencing from the Cataracts and the city of Elephantine1 to be divided into two parts, and to claim both the names, the one a part of Libya and the other of Asia.

1 On the island opposite Syene (Assuan).

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