Post haec, si volet, Nilus amet alveum suum et fluminis modum servet: nihil hoc ad urbem ac ne ad Aegyptum quidem, nisi ut inde navigia inania et vacua et similia redeuntibus, hinc plena et onusta et qualia solent venire mittantur, conversoque munere maris hinc potius venti ferentes et brevis cursus optentur.
Henceforth, if it wishes, the Nile can stick to its bed and content itself with a rivers proper form'it will make no difference to Rome, nor to Egypt either, except that ships will leave her country cargoless and empty, as once they used to return, while from Rome they will sail filled with the cargo they once brought to us. The seas function thus reversed, it will be from here that a following wind and a shortened voyage are the object of the sailors prayer.
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