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Serapis had opened the floodgates of the sky.
The first spring rains had already descended in heavy torrents; the water-gods had already poured the kindly streams from their urns into the swelling Nile; the river-surveyors, who had consulted the Nilometers2 at every place, declared that the sacred stream was steadily rising and that the maximum gauge would be reached that summer.