[16] χεῖρα.
[17] Ανθεσιν Νειλώοις.—The water lily of the Nile.
[18] "At Syene there was, in later times a well, the bottom of which, the sun was believed to illuminate at one time of the year, it being supposed that Syene was under the Tropic."—Blackesley's Herod., vol. 1. p. 187.
[19] Nἕιλος, from νέη ἰλύς, new soil.
[20] ν = 50; ε = 5; ι = 10; λ = 30; o = 70; σ = 200; total, 365.
... "vetus, vietus, veternosus, senex
Colore mustellino."—Terence.
[BOOK X.]
We have now said sufficient about Syene, which, from the brink of danger, was at once restored to security and happiness, by one man's clemency.