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The Nile
Nile
The great river of Egypt that runs out 'through seven mouths' to the sea; centerpiece of the Isis-landscape the poet invokes.
Reading notes
- The Loves §2.13 Nile
The great Egyptian river that runs out 'through seven mouths'; heart of the Isis landscape.
- The Heroides §14 the Nile
The river of Egypt, by whose seven mouths Io was at last restored from her cow-shape to human form (and made the goddess Isis).
- Letters from the Black Sea §4.10 Nile, that he yields
The Nile, greatest of rivers, which even the mighty Danube refuses to rank below; the climax of Ovid's river-catalogue.
- Metamorphoses §1.8 Nile
The seven-streamed river of Egypt, whose receding flood was thought to breed new creatures from the warm mud.
- Metamorphoses §15.511 of the papyrus-bearing Nile
The great river of Egypt, sailed by Caesar's fleets.
- Sorrows §1.2 Nile
The Nile, by metonymy Egypt and Alexandria, a place of pleasure-travel Ovid is NOT bound for.