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Pliarbsethos^ Leontopolis^, Atbribis^, the town of Isis^, 
Bupiris^, Cynopolis^, Aphrodites'", Sais^, and Naucratis^, from 
which last some writers call that the JSTaucratitic Mouth, 
which is by others called the Heracleotic, and mention it 
instead^^ of the Canopic Mouth, which is the next to it. 
1 Called Harbait by the Arabs, and Farbait by the ancient Egyp- 
tians. 
2 In the Delta. It *vas the capital of the nome of Leontopolites, and 
probably of late foundation, as no "writer previons to PHny mentions it. 
Its site is uncertain, but Thall-Essabouah, the " Hill of the Lion," has 
been suggested. 
3 The chief town of the Athribitic nome in Lower Egypt. It stood on 
the eastern bank of the Tanitic branch of the Nile. This nome and 
town derived their name from the goddess Thriphis, whom the inscrip- 
tions there and at Panopolis designate as the " most great goddess." The 
ruins at Atrieb or Trieb, at the spot where the modern canal of Moneys 
turns off from the Nile, represent the ancient Atln^ibis. They are very 
extensive, and among them are considerable remains of the Koman era. 
This was situate near the city or town of Busms in the Delta. The 
modern village of Bahbeyt is supposed to cover the ruins of the temple 
of Isis. 
^ The modern Busyr or Abousir, where considerable ruins of the an- 
cient city are still to be seen. It was the chief town of the nome of 
Busirites, and stood south of Sais, near the Phatnitic mouth, on the 
western bank of the Nile. This was also the name of a town in Middle 
Egypt, in the neighbourhood of Memphis, and represented by another 
village of the name of Abousir. Phny, B. xxxvi. c. 16, speaks of the 
Catacombs in its vicinity. 
^ The place of that name in the Delta is here meant. 
7 Probably the towm of that name, otherwise called Aphroditopohs, ' 
in the nome of Leontopolites. 
^ The ruins of which are now called Sa-el-Hajjar. It was situate in 
the Delta, on the east side of the Canopic branch of the Nile. It was the 
ancient capital of Lower Egypt and contained the palace and burial-place 
of the Pharaohs. It was the chief seat of the worship of the Egyptian 
goddess Neith, also known as Sais. It gave its name to the nome of 
Saites. 
9 It was situate in the Delta of Egypt and in the nome of Saites, 
on the eastern bank of the Canopic branch of the Nile. It was a 
colony of the Milesians, founded probably in the reign of Amasis, 
about B.C. 550, and remained a pure Greek city. It was the only place 
in Egypt in which, in the time of the later Pharaohs, foreigners were 
permitted to settle and trade. In later times it was famous for the 
worship of Aphrodite or Yenus, and rivalled Canopus in the dissolute- 
ness of its manners. 
Ptolemy the geographer does this. 
