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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1841 Excerpt:...of the wife and sister of Ptolemy Philadelphus, which was the capital of a nome, now the province of Fyoom. The animals were there kept in the lake Mceris, and were buried, according to Herodotus, in the underground chambers of the famous Labyrinth. There was another Crocodilopolis in the Thebai'd, placed by Strabo on the west bank, next in order to, and on the south of, Hermonthis; which I suppose to have stood at the Gebelayn, where the vestiges of a town appear on the hill nearest the river. Judging from the numerous mummies of crocodiles in the extensive caves of Maabdeh (opposite Manfaloot), another town, particularly devoted to their worship, also stood in that neighbourhood. Vide supra, p. 89. f Vide supra, p. 36. t Juv. Sat. xviii. 36. $ Plut. de Is. s. 50. Strabo, xvii. p. 562. /Klian, x. 24. From the account of iEliant it appears that, in places where they were worshipped, their numbers increased to such an extent "that it was not safe for any one to wash his feet or draw water at the river; and no one could walk near the edge of the stream, either in the vicinity of Ombos, Coptos, or Arsinoe, without extreme caution." Near one of the cities called Crocodilopolis was the place of interment of the first Asclepius, the reputed inventor of medicine; to whom a temple was said to have been dedicated on the Libyan hills in the vicinity. X That city was probably Athribis, noted for the peculiar honours paid to its presiding Deity Thriphis, the contemplar companion of Khem.t Herodot. ii. 148. f jElian, x. 24. j' Mercur. Trismegistus' Dialogue with Asclepius. Vide suprd, p. 54. Strabo t speaks of the great respect shown to the crocodile in the nome of Arsinoe, or, as it was formerly called, Crocodilopolis.§ He states that one was sacred ther...