Falsafa

Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

    The Atlas·Places

    Nile

    place · 12 works · 14 mentions · 30 anchored passages

    the Nile · the Nile river · The Nile · banks of the Nile · that river · the river · the river's character · the streams of the Nile

    spoken of as

    1 expression

    The Nile5 mentions

    Stromata (Greek) · The Histories (Greek) · Busiris (Greek) · De Rerum Natura (Latin) · Letters to Lucilius (Latin)

    And then swiftly the daughters of Danaus armed themselves before the fair-flowing river of lord Nile,
    chapter 5

    in the texts

    The HistoriesClassical · Greek

    Egypt's defining river, source of its sacred aquatic creatures, its annual flood, and a distinctive burial custom for those it claims.

    Nile themselves.
    chapter 2
    These, and the fox-goose among birds, are said to be sacred to the god of the Nile.
    chapter 2
    When the Nile falls, the fish have dropped their eggs into the mud before they leave with the last of the water;
    chapter 2

    CloudsClassical · Greek

    The river Nile, named as a site associated with the Clouds in Socrates' prayer.

    Whether ye are sitting upon the sacred snow-covered summits of Olympus, or in the gardens of Father Ocean form a sacred dance with the Nymphs, or draw in golden pitchers the streams of the waters of the Nile, or inhabit the Maeotic lake, or the snowy rock of Mimas, hearken to our prayer, and receive the sacrifice, and be propitious to the sacred rites.
    clouds

    On the Nature of the GodsHellenistic · Latin

    The river that floods and fertilizes Egypt.

    The Nile waters Egypt, and, when it has held it through the whole summer overwhelmed and covered, then retires and leaves the fields, softened and silted, for sowing.
    book 2

    StromataLate Antiquity · Greek

    River before which the daughters of Danaus are described arming themselves.

    And then swiftly the daughters of Danaus armed themselves before the fair-flowing river of lord Nile,
    chapter 5

    OrationsImperial · Greek

    The river central to Egypt and Alexandria's prosperity, referenced both as a genuine asset and as an object of the Alexandrians' misplaced pride.

    But you, if one eulogizes the Nile, are exalted, as though you yourselves flowed from Ethiopia.
    oration 32
    and the river's character, peculiar in its nature and beyond all others greater than words, both its marvel and its usefulness;
    oration 32

    HelenClassical · Greek

    The river Nile, whose waters and setting frame the opening of the play and recur as a marker of Egypt.

    Then why are you visiting these lands of the Nile?
    helen
    And why do you blame the bright gleam of the Nile?
    helen
    These are the lovely pure streams of the Nile, which waters the plain and lands of Egypt, fed by white melting snow instead of rain from heaven.
    helen

    BusirisClassical · Greek

    The river that encircles and sustains Egypt, credited with providing protection, fertility, and commerce to its inhabitants.

    for the Nile, encircling the land and flowing through its whole extent, has given them abundant means for both.
    busiris
    For, when you wished to praise Busiris, you chose to say that he forced the Nile to break into branches and surround the land, and that he sacrificed and ate strangers who came to his country;
    busiris
    Egypt, however, having the most admirable situation of the universe, was able to produce the most abundant and most varied products, and was defended by the immortal ramparts of the Nile, a river which by its nature provides not only protection to the land, but also its means of subsistence in abundance, being impregnable and difficult for foes to conquer, yet convenient for commerce and in many r …
    busiris

    To PhilipClassical · Greek

    The river whose natural defenses help protect Egypt against the Persian King.

    but her people nevertheless were living in continual fear lest the King might some day lead an army in person and overcome the natural obstacles which, thanks to the Nile, their country presents, and all their military defenses as well.
    to philip

    De Rerum NaturaHellenistic · Latin

    The river of Egypt whose annual summer flood Lucretius explains through several possible natural causes.

    Comes that river
    chapter 6
    Toward the summer, Nile
    chapter 6
    Among black generations of strong men
    chapter 6

    IsthmeanClassical · Greek

    The river Nile, marking the far southern/western extreme of both Xenocrates's winter travels and the Aeacidae's fame.

    he journeyed as far as Phasis in the summer, and in the winter sailed to the banks of the Nile.
    chapter 2
    Countless continuous roads have been cut a hundred feet wide for your fine deeds, both beyond the springs of the Nile and through the land of the Hyperboreans.
    chapter 6

    Letters to LuciliusImperial · Latin

    River in Egypt cited as an example of natural phenomena seen while traveling.

    Travel will give you acquaintance with nations, will show you new shapes of mountains, untrodden expanses of plains and valleys watered by perennial streams, the character of some river under observation, whether, like the Nile, it swells with its summer rising, or, like the Tigris, is snatched from sight and, after a course driven through hidden ways, is restored in its full magnitude, or, like t …
    letter 104

    Ad NationesLate Antiquity · Latin

    River whose failure to flood is blamed on Christians.

    If the Tiber has overflowed, if the Nile has not overflowed, if the sky has stood still, if the earth has quaked, if famine has wasted, if pestilence has afflicted — at once the cry of all:
    book 1