Note 455 — Chapter IV · Egypt
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Hdt. II. 158, IV. 42; cp. Aristot. Meteor. I. 14 (352 b); Strabo, XVII. 804; Diod. I. 33; Tzetz. Chil. VII. 446. A canal connecting the two seas appears (pace Wiedemann, Hdt. II. 158) to have been in use 700 years earlier under Seti I and Ramses II; see Petrie, Hist. III. p. 13; Maspero, Hist. Anc.5 p. 228. Necho’s work was apparently completed by Darius (How and Wells, ad Hdt. II. 158).