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grbs-3101	Mayerson, Philip	Aelius Gallus at Cleopatris (Suez) and on the Red Sea	1995	8	.pdf	application/pdf	3074	133	61	and on the Red Sea Philip Mayerson T HE MILITARY EXPEDITION of Aelius Gallus to Arabia in 26/25 B.C. 1 has attracted considerable scholarly comment on his campaign regarding its chronology, the political and economic reasons behind it, the identification of Arabian sites mentioned in the sources, Gallus' misadventures caused by the duplicity of his Nabataean guide Syllaeus or by his own miscalculations, and his inglorious retreat to Egypt. The likelihood-if not the proof-that a Nile-Red Sea canal was not in operation shortly before the time of Gallus' cam­ paign is to be found in Plutarch's description of Cleopatra's attempt to shift her Mediterranean fleet of sixty ships to the Red Sea.	cache/grbs-3101.pdf	txt/grbs-3101.txt