"Concerning Egypt itself I shall extend my remarks to a great lenght, because there is no country that possesses so many wonders, nor any that has such a number of works which defy description. Not only is the climate different from that of the rest of the world, and the rivers unlike any other rivers, but the people also, in most of their manners and customs, exactly reverse the common practice of mankind."
Herodotus, Histories, B. II, 35, transl. George Rawlinson, London: Wordsworth Classics of World Litterature, 1996, p. 131.
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