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...across the desert to the Nile, to the more favoured emporium of Alexandria. Loose and high-coloured accounts of the wealth of Thebes had reached Greece...nothing was certainly known of it till it was visited by Hecataeus of Abdera. Hecataeus had been an officer in the army of Alexander, and he afterwards joined...

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