12. As regards Egypt then, I both believe those who say that things are so, and for myself also I am strongly of opinion that they are so; because I have observed that Egypt runs out into the sea further than the adjoining land, and that shells are found upon the mountains of it, and an efflorescence of salt forms upon the surface, so that even the pyramids are being eaten away by it, and moreover that of all the mountains of Egypt, the range which lies above Memphis is the only one which has sand:
12. Egyptoz hori diotenei, bada, sinetsi egiten diet eta ni neu ziur nago horrela dela, ikusten baitut Egypto inguruko lurretatik aurreratu egiten dela eta mendietan maskorrak agertzen direla eta pyramideei kalte egiterainoko gatzua agertzen zaiela, eta hondarra duen Egyptoko mendi bakarra Memphisez goitik dagoen hau dela eta, horrez gainera, Egyptok ez duela antzik ez mugakide duen Arabiarekin ez eta ere Syriarekin (Arabiako kostaldean syriarrak sailkatzen baitira), alderantziz, bere lurra, ibaiak Ethiopiatik ekarritako lohi eta uholde-lur denez, beltz eta hauskor dela.