90 ([return])
[ {kata tauta}: the better MSS. have {kai kata tauta}, which might be taken with what follows, punctuating after {ergazontai} (as in the Medicean MS.): "they and the Egyptians alone of all nations work flax; and so likewise they resemble one another in their whole manner of living.">[
91 ([return])
[ {polon}, i.e. the concave sun-dial, in shape like the vault of heaven.]
92 ([return])
[ The gnomon would be an upright staff or an obelisk for observation of the length of the shadow.]
93 ([return])
[ i.e. Red Clod.]
94 ([return])
[ {Turion stratopedon}, i.e. "the Tyrian quarter" of the town: cp. ch. 154.]