Κροκοδείλων πόλις, πόλις ἐν τῇ Μοίριδος [τῇ] λίμνῃ ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ. Ἡρόδοτος δευτέρᾳ. ἐκλήθη δὲ οὕτως· ὁ Μηνᾶς βασιλεὺς ὑπὸ τῶν ἰδίων κυνῶν διωκόμενος μεθ´ ἵππου φεύγει· καταπεσόντος δὲ τοῦ ἵππου ἐν τῇ Μοίριδος λίμνῃ, ὑπὸ κροκοδείλου ληφθῆναι καὶ ἐξενεχθῆναι εἰς τὸ πέραν, καὶ οὕτως ὀνομασθῆναι καὶ πόλιν κτίσαι καὶ καθιερώσασθαι τοὺς κροκοδείλους. ἀπεῖπέ τε μηδένα ἀποκτείνειν τὸ ζῷον ἡγεῖσθαί τε ὥσπερ θεόν. ὁ πολίτης Κροκοδειλοπολίτης.
Crocodilopolis: a city in the Lake of Moiris in Egypt. Herodotus, Book 2. And it was given this name as follows: Menas the king, being pursued by his own hounds, fled on horseback; but when the horse fell into Lake Moiris, he was seized by a crocodile and carried out to the opposite shore, and thus it received its name—and he founded a city and consecrated the crocodiles. He also proclaimed that no one was to kill the animal, and that it should be regarded as a god. The citizen is called a Crocodilopolite.