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Often appears with: textual emendations · manuscript variants · language, naming, and meaning · geography and the description of places · african rivers and settlements
Usually: commentary or gloss (1) · curiosity (1) · skepticism (1)
The section’s notes discuss manuscript and distance corrections, the identity and positions of various African towns and rivers near Napata and Meroë, and provide interpretive comments on specific natural phenomena and plants.
[888] Kramer considers the passage between brackets to be an interpolation, as the same sense is conveyed in the passage which immediately follows. [889] The number here given is nearly twice too great. Kramer quotes G. Parthey (de Philis insula) for correcting the error to 50 stadia, and for perceiving that it arose from the very frequent substitution in manuscripts of the letter P (100) for N (50). [890] Unhewn s…