is rigat Aegyptum medium per saepe calorem, aut quia sunt aestate aquilones ostia contra, anni tempore eo qui etesiae esse feruntur, et contra fluvium flantes remorantur et, undas cogentes sursus, replent coguntque manere.
It is accustomed to irrigate Egypt through the middle heats, either because there are northerly winds in summer opposite to its mouth, which at that time of year are called etesian winds, and these, blowing against the stream, hold it back, and driving the waters up channel fill it and force it to stand.
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