place
Nilus
the Nile
The great river of Egypt, evoking Caesar's Alexandrian campaign.
Reading notes
- On the Nature of the Gods §2.130 The Nile irrigates Egypt
Balbus's catalogue of providential rivers: the Nile floods and fertilizes Egypt, the Euphrates renews Mesopotamia, and the Indus (greatest of rivers) both waters and sows the fields with grain-like seed.