for it was evident to me that the space between the aforesaid mountain-ranges, which lie above the city of Memphis, once was a gulf of the sea, like the regions about Ilion and Teuthrania and Ephesos and the plain of the Maiander, if it be permitted to compare small things with great;
Izan ere, Memphis hiriaz goitik zeuden aipaturiko mendien erdigunea garai baten itsas golko izan zela agertzen zitzaidan, hain zuzen Ilion, Teuthrania eta Ephesoko inguruak eta Meandroren lautada bezalaxe, txikiak handiekin aldera badaitez bederen.