Red Sea

You, then, being moved to compassion, most mighty one, be willing to be munificent toward the land that is your tributary, so that thus, having fitted it out to be crossed by a bridge in plenty over this river, you may show it to be a new Red Sea, passable on the journey.

Can anything so childish be said (to press the same point a little longer) as if we should say that those kinds of beasts which are born in the Red Sea or in India do not exist?

I believe that where Egypt is now, there was once another such gulf;

in length, from its inner end out to the wide sea, it is a forty days' voyage for a ship rowed by oars;

Now in Arabia, not far from Egypt, there is a gulf extending inland from the sea called Red, whose length and width are such as I shall show:

In the same manner, in the time of Cimon, the Persians were bound by a treaty, made with the Athenians, not to sail with any ship of war between the Cyanean rocks and the Chelidonian islands;

and when they had been enslaved to the Egyptian nation and to a certain tyrant Pharaoh, he led them out from thence with signs and dreadful and extraordinary wonders through Moses and Aaron, holy men glorified with the grace of prophecy — through whom he both chastised the Egyptians worthily of their wickedness, and led the Israelites (for so that people, the descendants of Abraham, was called) th …

For Israel, which had been known to God, and which had been exalted by him in Egypt, and was carried across the Red Sea, and which was fed in the wilderness with manna for forty years — brought to the likeness of eternity, neither defiled with human sufferings nor fed on the foods of this world, but fed on manna, the bread of angels, and bound to God by enough of his benefits — forgot the Lord and …

and again, nature returning at the nod of the same rod, that it should overwhelm the Egyptian army by the concord of the waters — to which work the south winds too gave service.