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title: "Declamations and Orations: Oration 14 (To the Egyptian Newcomer)"
title_greek: "Μελέται καὶ Λόγοι, Εἰς τὸν Νέηλυν τὸν Αἰγύπτιον"
author: Himerius the Sophist
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period: Late Antique
dialect: Attic
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# Declamations and Orations: Oration 14 (To the Egyptian Newcomer)

*Μελέται καὶ Λόγοι, Εἰς τὸν Νέηλυν τὸν Αἰγύπτιον*

**Author:** Himerius the Sophist

**eul_wid:** `siy-aq` · [HTML page](https://eulogikon.org/works/himerius-declamations-orations-oration-14-siy-aq)

## Text

Part of [Declamations and Orations](/works/himerius-declamations-orations-siy-ac)

`14`

Εἰς τὸν νέηλυν τὸν Αἰγύπτιον.

Πήχεις οἱ Αἰγύπτιοι τὴν αὔξησιν τοῦ Νείλου προσαγορεύουσι καὶ μετροῦσι τὰ νάματα, καὶ πανήγυρις αὐτοῖς ὁ πῆχυς γίνεται ...

Δεινὸς χρηματιστὴς ἐκ τῆς κατὰ μικρὸν προσθήκης τὸν πολὺν πλοῦτον ἀθροίζει ...

... καὶ τοὺς γενναίους ὄψει τῶν στρατηγῶν ἀπʼ ἐλαττόνων τροπαίων τὰς μυρίας νίκας κηρύττοντας. μικρὸς ἦν ἐν Ἀρτεμισίῳ Θεμιστοκλῆς—κατὰ γὰρ τῶν προπόλων ἔτι τῶν βασιλέως ἠρίστευε—, μείζων ἐν ψυτταλίᾳ, μέγας ἐν τῇ Σαλαμῖνι· ἐβάπτισε γὰρ ὅλην ἐκεῖ τὴν Ἀσίαν μαχόμενος ...

Δοκεῖ δέ μοι καὶ αὐτὸς Ὅμηρος διὰ τοῦτο δεκέτην γράψαι τὸν πόλεμον, καὶ μετὰ τοῦτο πυρὶ δαπανῆσαι τὸ Ἴλιον, ἵνα δείξῃ διὰ τῆς ποιήσεως ἀνθρώποις ἅπασι ὅτι μόλις καὶ χρόνῳ τὰ ἀγαθὰ τοῖς ἀνθρώποις ἡ Τύχη δίδωσι ...

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