Pyramidographia: or a description of the pyramids in Aegypt / [John Greaves].

  • John Greaves
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1646
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    mides complures (that is avove this Labyrinthn} 4) which he places « Heracleopolite Nomo) quea noni dragenarum Ulnarum Ni radice muros obtineram yy tes Long before thefe foure Pyramids of Cheops:) wi) Cephren, Mycerinus, and Afachis, who immedii4 jj ately fucceeded one another in the Kingdome, buath py after this of J/mandes, Myris as he is cailed by Dist yy, odor 4s; but Heredot us,Strabo,and Pliny, name hinmh jy Maris, Another egyptian King built two admi-} jj) rable Pyramids ; the defcription of which,thougthy ,,,. in Herodotus it immediately followes that of thee} 4, twelve Kings ; yet as it may evidently be coli}... lected out of him, and Dsodorus, thefe two obff,, f Herod. h.2.. Afar mult many ageshave preceded: (f) Foor}. ete de Tero ; ° [Mira] xaiidenor Plerodorus tels us, that from AZenes (the firlt Kingg} ot inise ew BiéAS Of the cEgyptians, whom Déodorus names Aen}. eduy Baoirtor ’ Ne, cemuciare 4 45) the Priefts recited out of their Bookess,} » ;' mexinavla ouyi- CCCXXX Kings, the laft of which was Maris ;; Ink ee wie. long after whom reigned Se/o/Pris, who is calledip by AfLanethos,Sethofiss; and by Diodorus,Sefoftris;,}) and Sefoofis ; where he more particularly, them} , Herodotus, exprefles this Sefoftris to have been; g Diod.Sicdlib. x, (g )feven ages after AZeris, and to have reignedi long before thefe twelve Kings. The which Se~} foftrss, or Sethofis, immediately fucceeding Ame—} *:' sophis, (according to Mfanethos in Jofephus, ass}, we fhall fhew in the enfuing difcourfe) muftt} ,' have been before Cheops, Cephren, Mdycerinus,,) and Afychis ; and therefore confequently, thatt}, Meris mult long have preceded thefe twelve: }/” Kings. This J4erz undertooke, and finifhed!}™! that moft admirable Lake, denominated after hiss} ,”' name, as itis teltified by Herodotus, Diodorus,,) ; Strabo, \