Saitic
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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There are also two other mouths which part off from the Sebennytic and go to the sea, and these are called, one the Saitic, the other the Mendesian mouth.
From An Account of Egypt by G. C. (George Campbell) Macaulay
In the Saitic Period the seat of empire was once more in Lower Egypt, and art had visibly declined with the waning power of the country.
From A Text-Book of the History of Painting by John Charles Van Dyke
It must have been the invention of the Karian dragomen who came into existence under the Saitic dynasty.
From The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
Now these are the mouths of the Nile:—towards Arabia, the Pelusiac mouth; towards Libya, the Canopic: and the rest are,—the Bolbitic, the Sebennytic, the Mendesian, the Saitic, and the Opuntic.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
Anacalypsis, or an attempt to draw aside the veil of the Saitic Isis: or an inquiry into the origin of languages, nations, and religions.
From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I by David Eugene Smith
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