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It is certain however that now they [Egyptians] gather in fruit from the earth with less labour than any other men; for they have no labour in breaking up furrows with a plough nor in hoeing nor in any other of those labours which other men have about a crop; when the river has come up of itself and watered their fields and after watering has left them again, then each man sows his own field and after that he simply waits for the harvest.
The History of Herodotus / Book II / 14