Celtica Rhenus; citra Alpis Timavos et Padus; Italia Tiberis; Maurusia, quam nostri Mauretaniam appellant, ex monte Atlante Dyris, qui ortus ex septentrionali regione progreditur per occidentem ad lacum Eptagonum et mutato nomine dicitur Agger, deinde ex lacu Eptabolo sub montes desertos subterfluens per meridiana loca manat et influit in Paludem quae appellatur, circumcingit Meroen, quod est Aethiopum meridianorum regnum, ab hisque paludibus se circumagens per flumina Astansobam et Astoboam et alia plura pervenit per montes ad cataractam ab eoque se praecipitans per septentrionalem pervenit inter Elephantida et Syenen Thebaicosque in Aegyptum campos et ibi Nilus appellatur.
in Celtic territory, the Rhine; south of the Alps, the Timavo and Po; in Italy, the Tiber; in Morocco, which we call Mauretania, the Dyris comes from Mount Atlas. This river rises in the north, turns to the west to Lake Eptagonus and there, changing its name, it is called Agger. Thence it flows from Lake Eptabolos under mountains of the desert through the south and flows into the Marsh so-called. It then winds round Meroe, which is the Southern Ethiopian kingdom, and turning from these marshes through the rivers Astansobas and Astoboas and many others, it arrives through the mountains at the Cataract. Thence rushing northwards it passes into Egypt, between Elephantis and Syene and the Theban plain, and is there called the Nile.
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