Frustra tunc Aegyptus nubila optavit caelumque respexit, cum ipse fecunditatis parens contractior et exilior isdem ubertatem eius angustiis quibus abundantiam suam cohibuisset.
All in vain the native Egyptian prayed for rain-clouds and watched the heavens, now that the author of productiveness had shrunk and dwindled and confined the fertile regions within the narrow limits of its own fullness.
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