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MENDI (Ancient city) EGYPT
Mendes (Menodes, Herod. ii. 42, 46. 166; Diod. i. 84; Strab. xvii.
p. 802; Mela, i. 9 § 9; Plin. v. 10. s. 12; Ptol. iv. 5. § 51; Steph. B. s. v.:
Eth. Mendesios), the capital of the Mendesian nome in the Delta of Egypt. It was
situated at the point where the Mendesian arm of the Nile (Mendesion stoma, Scylax,
p. 43; Ptol. iv, 5. § 10; Mendesium ostium, Pliny, Mela, ll. cc.) flows into the
lake of Tanis. Mendes was, under the Pharaonic kings, a considerable town ; the
nome was the chief seat of the worship of Mendes or Pan, the all-producing-principle
of life, and one of the eight greater deities of Aegypt, and represented under
the form: of a goat. It was also one of the nomes assigned to that division of
the native army which was called the Calasirii, and the city was celebrated for
the manufacture of a perfume designated as the Mendesium unguentum. (Plin. xiii.
1. s. 2.) Mendes, however, declined early, and disappears in the first century
A. D.; since both Ptolemy (l. c.) and Aristides (iii. p. 160) mention Thmuis as
the only town of note in the Mendesian nome. From its position at the junction
of the river and the lake, it was probably encroached upon by their waters, after
the canals fell into neglect under the Macedonian kings, and when they were repaired
by Augustus (Sueton. Aug. 18, 63) Thmuis had attracted its trade and population.
Ruins, however, supposed to be those of Mendes' have been found near the hamlet
of Achman-Tanah (Champollion, l'Egypte, vol. ii. p. 122.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited August 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
A city of the Delta of Egypt, on the bank of one of the lesser arms of the Nile, named after it the Mendesian mouth (Mendesion stoma). Here was worshipped a deity of the Egyptians, called Mendes, and identified by Herodotus with the Arcadian Pan.
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