History of Rome, and of the Roman people, from its origin to the invasion of the barbarians . a H O n »0 m W H aaa «O M &-) H -4a -! Cm 3a H o a Q Oh COMMODUS, PERTINAX, JULIANUS, SEVERUS, 180 TO 211 a. i>. 525 Curious in respect to all tilings human and divine, even themost secret, Severus informed himself as to the sources of theNile, to which the Romans approached very Dion Cassiusspeaks of them in mentioning the Emperors journey, the story ofwhich he probably heard; and if he is deceived in placing the. THE TEMPLE OF ISIS AT sources of the river at the extremity of the M
History of Rome, and of the Roman people, from its origin to the invasion of the barbarians . a H O n »0 m W H aaa «O M &-) H -4a -! Cm 3a H o a Q Oh COMMODUS, PERTINAX, JULIANUS, SEVERUS, 180 TO 211 a. i>. 525 Curious in respect to all tilings human and divine, even themost secret, Severus informed himself as to the sources of theNile, to which the Romans approached very Dion Cassiusspeaks of them in mentioning the Emperors journey, the story ofwhich he probably heard; and if he is deceived in placing the. THE TEMPLE OF ISIS AT sources of the river at the extremity of the Mauretanian Atlas,he says nearly the truth when he speaks of it as emerging fromvast marshes which lie at the base of a high mountain coveredwith Severus had the intention of penetrating into the Amenophis, who lived about the year 16-S0 No one of the inscriptions engraved uponthis colossus is later than the time of Severus. 1 Mariettes last discoveries at Karnak prove that tin Pharaohs had bequeathed to theirsuccessors a much more complete knowledge of the valley of the Upper Nile than was armies of Thothmes III. certainly penetrated as far as Cape Ras-llafun. south of (apeGuardafui, probably even in the interior going beyond Khartoum, and Ptolemy speaks of threegreat equatorial lakes. However, Amm. Marcellinus (xxii. 15) declares the sources of theNile to be nndiscoverable : . . posterae ignorabunt delates. Nubian inscriptions state thatthe Blemmycs ami the Axumites were conquered
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