quoque tempore a studiosis iuvenibus certatim Athenae Platonem doctorem quaerentibus petebantur, ipse Nili fluminis inexplicabiles ripas vastissimosque campos, <et> effusam Mariam et flexuosos fossarum ambitus Agyptiorum senum discipulus lustrabat.
While studious young men were going to Athens to vie with one another in seeking Plato as their teacher, Plato himself was traversing the labyrinthine banks of the river Nile, vast plains, the sprawl of Maria, the winding courses of dykes, as a pupil of aged Egyptians.
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