Κροκοδείλων πόλις

Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika

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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.

Krokodeilon polis: a city in the Lake of Moiris in Egypt. Herodotus, book 2. It was called thus: King Menas, being pursued by his own dogs, flees on horseback; and when the horse fell in the Lake of Moiris, he was taken by a crocodile and carried out to the farther side, and so it was named, and he founded a city and consecrated the crocodiles. He also forbade anyone to kill the animal and considered it as a god. A citizen is a 'Krokodeilopolites'.

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