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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.

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Panegyric to Trajan speeches · 2 mentions
The Letters letters · 4 mentions

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