Ezekiel 29:3

Dragon. Hebrew tannin, (Haydock) whence thunnus may be derived, means any water monster, and seems here put for the crocodile, (Calmet) which Pharao signifies. (Grotius) --- It was the symbol of Egypt, (Calmet) and adored by the people, Jeremias xv. 2. --- Rivers; the different branches of the Nile, and the canals. --- Myself. I owe my power to no other. (Calmet) --- "Apries is said to think that no god could deprive him of the kingdom, so well he seemed to have established it." (Herodotus ii. 169.) --- So the ancient Pharao said; I know not the Lord, Exodus v. 2. He boasts of having conducted the waters of the Nile through the land, ver. 9. (Menochius) --- This river was honoured as the greatest of the gods. (Heliod. 9.) --- Terra suis contenta bonis non indiga mercis

Aut Jovis; in solo tanta est fiducia Nilo. (Lucan viii.)