The ancients seem to have thought that the Nile came from the east.

But it is possible that there was another tribe of this name dwelling in Africa.
(20) A passage of difficulty.

I understand it to mean that at this spot the summer sun (in Leo) strikes the earth with direct rays.
(21) Reading "ibi fas ubi proxima merees", with Hosius.
(22) See Book VIII., 253.
(23) Medea, who fled from Colchis with her brother, Absyrtus.
Pursued by her father Aeetes, she killed her brother and strewed the parts of his body into the sea.

The king paused to collect them.
(24) It was in this conflagration that a large part of the library of the Ptolemies was destroyed.

400,000 volumes are stated to have perished.
(25) The island of Pharos, which lay over against the port of Alexandria, had been connected with the mainland in the middle by a narrow causeway.