Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), H, Hermias, Hermopŏlis

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Hermopŏlis

（Ἑρμόπολις). “City of Hermes.”

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Parva (ἡ μικρά), a city of Lower Egypt, stood upon the canal which connected the Canopic branch of the Nile with Lake Mareotis.

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Magna (ἡ μεγάλη), an ancient city in Middle Egypt, standing on the west bank of the Nile, a little below the confines of Upper Egypt. This place was famous for its worship of Anubis (q.v.) or Hermanubis; and was the sacred burial-place of the ibis.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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