Note 214 — Chapter XII · EGYPT.
William P. (William Purdie) Dickson translation
If the words of Pliny (H. N. v. 31, 128) are accurate, that the island of Pharos before the harbour of Alexandria was a colonia Caesaris dictatoris (comp. iv. 574), the dictator has here too, like Alexander, gone beyond the thought of Aristotle. But there can be no doubt as to the point, that after the annexation of Egypt there never was a Roman colony there.