Nile

Reading notes

• On Benefits §6.7.3 the Nile

  The great river of Egypt; its flooding profits or harms without will, and so (Seneca says) earns neither thanks nor hatred.

• Moral Letters to Lucilius §6.56.3 Nile

  The great river of Egypt; Seneca alludes to the tradition that the people living by its cataracts were deafened or forced to move by the roar of the falling water.

• Moral Letters to Lucilius §104.15 Nile

  The great river of Egypt, which uniquely floods in high summer.

• Natural Questions §3.1.2 The Nile

  The great river of Egypt, whose summer flood and unknown sources Seneca reserves for separate treatment (Book 4a).

• Natural Questions §3.22.1 the Nile

  The great river of Egypt, named among rivers seemingly coeval with the world; its summer rise treated separately.

• Octavia §510 made for the Nile

  The river of Egypt; Antony fled toward it after defeat at Actium (31 BC).

• Oedipus §569 Nile

  The warm Egyptian river, winter refuge of the northern birds.