is a Roman author of the 3rd century; the translation is Elizabethan:
The Pyramides are Broches in Egypt, raysed with sharpe spyres above the height of any thing that can be made by mans hand: and forasmuch as they passe the measure of shaddowes, they have no shaddowes at all. Now let us turne our talke from Egypt.
And about time, I might add. -- Bill Thayer LacusCurtius http://www.ukans.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome/E/Roman
