in fiction, Egeria (Stargate) is the Goa'uld queen that spawned (literally) the Tok'ra resistance movement in the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1.
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Egeria, on the other hand, was away in the Holy Land for more than three years, and, after having reached Constantinople at the end of her travelogue, she was in no hurry to return home.
Egeria's account of her pilgrimage is full of Vulgar usages, and, therefore, her Latin reveals the Romance languages in embryo to a much greater extent than does the language of self-consciously literary writers.
Egeria knows of Edessa on account of its monks and hermits, its shrine of St. Thomas, and the letter that Christ was supposed to have written to one of its kings.
The bishop who met Egeria at Edessa was impressed by the fact that she had come "right from the other end of the earth" and she herself compares the colour of the Red Sea with that of the "Ocean".
And, if Egeria intended to do no more than pass on to her sisters as accurately as possible what she had seen, we may forgive her haphazard syntax and also, it may be, begin to appreciate her rich vocabulary, and her eye for the pointed word and phrase.
Egeria was steeped, if not in the Latin classics, at least in those of the Church, and her language often echoes that of the Bible or of formal prayer.
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