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| Chapter I. Description of the town of Thennesus.
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Chapter I.
Description of the town of Thennesus.
When we were living in a
monastery in Syria after our first infancy in the faith, and when after
we had grown somewhat we had begun to long for some greater grace of
perfection, we determined straightway to seek Egypt and penetrating
even to the remotest desert of the Thebaid,1685
| 1685 It is very
doubtful whether Cassian ever carried out the intention, of which he
here speaks, of visiting the Thebaid. So far as we can trace the course
of his wanderings, he does not seem to have penetrated farther into
Egypt than the desert of Scete. | to visit very many of the saints, whose
glory and fame had spread abroad everywhere, with the wish if not to
emulate them at any rate to know them. And so we came by a very lengthy
voyage to a town of Egypt named Thennesus,1686
| 1686 Thennesus, a town
at the Tanitic mouth of the Nile near Lake Menzaleh. For the
description of the neighbouring country compare Conference VII. c.
xxvi. | whose inhabitants are so surrounded
either by the sea or by salt lakes that they devote themselves to
business alone and get their wealth and substance by naval commerce as
the land fails them, so that indeed when they want to build houses,
there is no soil sufficient for this, unless it is brought by boat from
a distance.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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