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Egypt
also: Aegyptus
The Roman province of Egypt, a principal source of Rome's grain, whose harvests depended on the annual Nile flood; a failed flood brought the famine Trajan relieved.
Reading notes
- The Letters §5.19.6 Egypt
Province where Zosimus had earlier convalesced.
- Panegyric to Trajan §30 Egypt
Roman Egypt, a chief granary of the empire, whose harvests depended wholly on the annual flooding of the Nile.