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Browsing named entities in Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley). You can also browse the collection for Lake Moeris (Egypt) or search for Lake Moeris (Egypt) in all documents.
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Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley), Book 2, chapter 4 (search)
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley), Book 2, chapter 13 (search)
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley), Book 2, chapter 69 (search)
Some of the Egyptians consider crocodiles sacred; others do not, but treat them as enemies. Those who live near Thebes
and lake Moeris consider them very sacred.
Every household raises one crocodile, trained to be tame; they put ornaments of glass and gold on its ears and bracelets on its forefeet, provide special food and offerings for it, and give the creatures the best of treatment while they live; after death, the crocodiles are embalmed and buried in sacred coffins.
But around Elephantine they are not held sacred, and are even eaten. The Egyptians do not call them crocodiles, but khampsae. The Ionians named them crocodiles, from their resemblance to the lizards which they have in their wallskroko/deilos is Ionic for a lizard; the commoner word is sau/ra or sau=ros. xa/mya is the Egyptian “em-suh,” a name which survives in the Arabic “timsah,” i.e. em-suh with the feminine article pref
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley), Book 2, chapter 148 (search)
Moreover, they decided to preserve the memory of their names by a common memorial, and so they made a labyrinthThis “labyrinth” was a horseshoe-shaped group of buildings, supposed to have been near the pyramid of Hawara (Sayce). a little way beyond lake Moeris and near the place called the City of Crocodiles. I have seen it myself, and indeed words cannot describe it;I take h)/dh as = h)= dh/, with lo/gou me/zw.
if one were to collect the walls and evidence of other efforts of the Greeks, the sum would not amount to the labor and cost of this labyrinth. And yet the temple at Ephesus and the one on Samos are noteworthy.
Though the pyramids beggar description and each one of them is a match for many great monuments built by Greeks, this maze surpasses even the pyramids.
It has twelve roofed courts with doors facing each other: six face north and six south, in two continuous lines, all within one outer wall. There are also double sets of chambers, three thousand altogether, fifteen hun
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley), Book 2, chapter 149 (search)
Such is this labyrinth; and still more marvellous is lake Moeris, on which it stands. This lake has a circumference of four hundred and fifty miles, or sixty schoeni: as much as the whole seaboard of Egypt. Its length is from north to south; the deepest part has a depth of fifty fathoms.
That it has been dug out and made by men's hands the lake shows for itself; for almost in the middle of it stand two pyramids, so built that fifty fathoms of each are below and fifty above the water; atop each is a colossal stone figure seated on a throne.
Thus these pyramids are a hundred fathoms high; and a hundred fathoms equal a furlong of six hundred feet, the fathom measuring six feet or four cubits, the foot four spans and the cubit six spans.
The water of the lake is not natural (for the country here is exceedingly arid) but brought by a channel from the Nile; six months it flows into the lake, and six back into the river.
For the six months that it flows out of the lake, the daily take of fi
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley), Book 3, chapter 91 (search)