Nilus, A famous and great riuer, running through Aethiope. and Aegypt, and is snpposed to be one of the riuers of Paradise, called in holy scripture Gehon. Albeit to me it seemeth vnlikely, for as much as in Genefis it is written, that Gehon enuironeth all Aethiopia, where is no mentiõ made that it passeth through Aegypt, albeit that Aegipt and the riuer Nilus were more nygh to Moyses, when he wrote the booke Genesis, then Aethiope was. And also Nilus was famous for the vertue of the water thereof, which ouerflowing the countrey of Aegypt, made the grounde wonderful fertyle manye yeares after, so that without labonring, the earth broughte forth aboundaunce of simdrie graines and plantes, delectable and prositable. Also beastes of sundrye kindes, without other forme of generation: especiallie when the riuer came to the deepenesse of xl. cubits. Likewise whÊ it exceeded not viii. cubits, there succeeded much famine & scarsitie.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
Nīlus, i, m., = *nei=los. 1.The river Nile, celebrated for its annual overflow, Lucr. 6, 712 sq.; Cic. N. D. 2, 52, 130; id. Rep. 6, 18, 19; Sen. Q. N. 4, 2; Plin. 5, 9, 10, 51; 18, 8, 47, 167; Vitr. 8, 2, 6; Mart. Cap. 6, 676; Luc. 10, 199 et saep.—It flows through seven mouths into the sea, Juv. 13, 26; cf. Ov. M. 5, 187; 1, 422.—2. Also personified, the god of the Nile, Nilus, father of the Egyptian Hercules, Cic. N. D. 3, 16, 42; cf. id. ib. 3, 23, 58 sq.—B.Transf., a canal, conduit, aqueduct: piscina et nilus, Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 9, 7: ductus vero aquarum, quos isti nilos et euripos vocant, id. Leg. 2, 1, 2.—Hence, II. Nī-lĭăcus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to the Nile: fontes, Luc. 10, 192: gurges, id. 9, 1023: fera,
, id. 13, 57, 1.—2.Transf., Egyptian: Niliacis carmina lusa modis, Ov. A. A. 3, 318: amor, an Egyptian amour, i. e. with Cleopatra, Luc. 10, 80: tyrannus, id. 8, 281: plebs, Juv. 1, 26: pecus, i. e.
Apis
, Stat. Th. 3, 478: juvenca, Io or Isis.Mart. 8, 81, 2: lens, id. 13, 9, 1.—B. Nīlĭcŏla, ae, m., a dweller on the Nile, an Egyptian, Prud. ap. Symm. 2, 439.—C. Nīlĭgĕna, ae, comm., one born on the banks of the Nile, an Egyptian, Macr. S. 1, 16, 37: Niligenūm deūm, v. l. Verg. A. 8, 698 (cf. Lachm. ap. Lucr. 5, 440). —D. Nīlōtĭcus, a, um, adj., of the Nile: Nilotica tellus, Mart. 6, 80, 1: rura, Luc. 9, 130: aqua, Sen. Q. N. 3, 25, 11.—E. Nīlō-tis, ĭdis, f.adj., of or from the Nile, Egyptian: Nilotis acus, Luc. 10, 142: tunica, Mart. 10, 6, 7: aqua, Sid. Ep. 8, 12.