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pliny's nattjeal histoet. [Book y. 
tseopolites\ Aphroditopolites^, and Lycopolites^. The di- 
strict which lies in the vicinity of Pelusium contains the 
following Nomes, Pharbaethites, Bubastites*, Sethroites, 
and Tanites^. The remaining Nomes are those called the 
Arabian ; the Hammonian, which lies on the road to the 
oracle of Jupiter Hammon ; and those known by the names 
of Oxyrjnchites, Leontopolites, Athribites^, Cjnopolites^, 
Hermopolites^, Xoites, Mendesium, Sebennytes^ Cabasites, 
Latopolites, Heliopolites, Prosopites,PanopoKtes,Busirites^^, 
Onuphites^\ Saites^^, Ptenethu, Phthemphu^^, Naucratites^'*, 
Metelites, G-ynaecopolites, Menelaites, — all in the region of 
Alexandria, besides Mareotis in Libya. 
Heracleopolites^^ is a Nome on an island^^ of the Nile, 
for its chief town Chemmis or Panopolis. It paid divine honours to a 
deified hero. 
^ It probably worshipped Typhon. Its capital was AntseopoUs. 
2 Probably an ofishoot from a nome in theHeptanomis of similar name. 
^ Dedicated to the worship of the wolf. Its chief town was Lycopohs. 
It should be remarked that these names do not appear to be given by 
Pliny in their proper geographical order. 
'* Some of these nomes were inconsiderable and of Httle importance. 
The Bubastite nome worshipped Bubastis, Artemis, or Diana, of whom 
it contained a fine temple. 
^ Its chief town was Tanis. In this nome, according to tradition, 
Moses was born. 
^ Its capital was Athribis, where the shrew-mouse and crocodile were 
worshipped. 
7 The seat of the worship of the dog-headed deity Anubis. Its capital 
was CynopoUs ; which is to be distinguished from the Deltic city and 
other places of that name, as this was a nome of the Heptanomis or 
Middle Egypt, to which also the Hammonian nome belonged. 
s The border nome of Upper and Middle Egypt. 
9 Its capital was Pachnamunis. It worshipped a goddess correspond- 
ing to the Gr^reek Leto, or the Latona of the Romans. 
^0 Its capital was Busiris. It worshipped Isis, and at one period was 
said to have sacrificed the nomad tribes of Syria and Arabia. 
^1 Its chief town was Onuphis. 
^2 Its chief city was Sais, and it worshipped ISTeith or Athene, and 
contained the tomb and a sanctuary of Osiris. Its capital was Tava. 
Its chief town was Naucratis on the coast, the birth-place of Athe- 
naeus, the Deipnosophist. By some authors it is made part of the Saitic 
nome. The names given by Phny vary very considerably from those 
found in others of the ancient writers. 
15 The capital of this nome was HeracleopoHs, * The city of Hercules,' 
as Pliny caUs it, situate, as he says, on an island, at the entrance of the 
