Note 597 — Chapter XX · EGYPTIANS.
Reading edition
See the citation from Maillet’s Travels in Egypt, in Heeren, Ideen, p. 590; also Volney’s Travels, vol. i, ch. 6, p. 77.
The expression of Herodotus—οἱ περὶ τὴν σπειρομένην Αἴγυπτον οἰκέουσι—indicates that the portion of the soil used as pasture was not inconsiderable.
The inhabitants of the marsh land were the most warlike part of the population (Thucyd. i, 110).