Note 234 — Chapter XII · EGYPT.
William P. (William Purdie) Dickson translation
After Juvenal has described the wild drinking bouts of the native Egyptians in honour of the local gods of the several nomes, he adds that therein the natives were in no respect inferior to the Canopus, i.e. the Alexandrian festival of Sarapis, notorious for its unbridled licentiousness (Strabo, xvii. 1, 17, p. 801): horrida sane Aegyptus, sed luxuria quantum ipse notavi, barbara famoso non cedit turba Canopo (Sat. xv. 44).