Note 748 — Chapter XXIII · “THE NILE IS EGYPT”

Od., IV. 477, and XVII. 448. In Th. 338 of Hesiod, who, though not a contemporary, flourished shortly after Homer, ὁ Νεῖλος first appears. The Egyptians called it Hapi, but in the vernacular language Yetor, or Ye-or = the River, or Yaro = the great River.