Capitolo 94
Caesar and his/her army immediately were expelled from Alexandria, there was
imminent danger that the national independence of Egypt would be forever
destroyed. The Romans, they was to say, you/he/she had extended their conquests
on almost the whole rest of the world. They had sent an army in Egypt
before, under the command of Mark Antony, under the pretension of
Ptolemy Auletes that it restores to the throne. Now another commander, with
another strength, had come, while offering some other pretexts to interfere in
their business. These Roman abuses, the messengers were to say,
it would end in the complete subjugation of Egypt to a foreign power,
unless the people of the country waked up again them to satisfy the danger
virilely, and to expel the intruders.
How Caesar had possession of the island of Pharos and the I bring,
Ganymede could not cut him/it the road to receive such king-strengthening of
men and arm as it is probable that he manufactures setups to get over the sea;
neither he could shorten his/her provisioning of food as the barns and periodicals
inside the quarter of Caesar of the city you negotiate almost inexhaustible they contained
of corn. There was an essential remaining point to the existence of
an army besieged, and that was an abundant provisioning of water. The buildings
and citadels that it occupied Caesar were provisioned with water from he/she wants to say of
underground and numerous aqueducts that brought the water from the Nile
to enormous cisterns built under earth from which it was elevated from buckets and
hydraulic motors for use. In to reflect on this circumstance,
Ganymede conceived the sketch to secretly dig a channel, as to turn
the waters of the sea from he/she wants to tell of him these aqueducts. This plan him
brought in effect. The consequence was, that the water in the cisterns
you/he/she was gradually changed. It became brackish before, then more and more the salt
and bitter, up to that, for a long time it was completely impossible to use him/it. For
some calculate the army among you/he/she could not understand these changes; and when,