. Universal historical dictionary, or, Explanation of the names of persons and places in the departments of Biblical, political, and ecclesiastical history, mythology, heraldry, biography, bibliography, geography, and numismatics . Laertes ; Herodian ; Yopiscus ; Maerobius; Isidor ;Proclus ; Eustathius ; Scaliger ; Rieciolus ; Calvisins ;Vussius ; Petavius ; Usher; Boehart ; Markham. VVinters on the Geography and History of Ancient Egypt. Homer; Herodotus; Theocritus; Appian ; Polybius; Dio- dorus; Sallust ; Josephus; Florus; -Elian; Justin; Julius Africanus; Eusebius; Heliodorus; Sozomenes; P

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. Universal historical dictionary, or, Explanation of the names of persons and places in the departments of Biblical, political, and ecclesiastical history, mythology, heraldry, biography, bibliography, geography, and numismatics . Laertes ; Herodian ; Yopiscus ; Maerobius; Isidor ;Proclus ; Eustathius ; Scaliger ; Rieciolus ; Calvisins ;Vussius ; Petavius ; Usher; Boehart ; Markham. VVinters on the Geography and History of Ancient Egypt. Homer; Herodotus; Theocritus; Appian ; Polybius; Dio- dorus; Sallust ; Josephus; Florus; -Elian; Justin; Julius Africanus; Eusebius; Heliodorus; Sozomenes; Procopius; Georgius Syncellus; Suidas; and Coiistantine Man asses.F.oyptis (Numis.) no medals are extant which are supposedto have been struck by the Egyptians before the reign ofAlexander the Great, although they probably had coinedmoney much earlier, after the manner of the Phoenicians.From the commencement of the reign of the Lagides, Pto-lemy Sotcr I, and his successors, struck medals or coins ofgold, silver, or bronze, and after this country fell under thepower of the Romans, many medals were struck in honourhi the emperors ; on a medal of Augustus a crocodile waspainted as one of the symbols of Egypt as in fig. 1, the. inscription AEGYPTO CAPTA, commemorative of his victory over Anthony, and conquest of Egypt ; on severalmedals of Augustus is the figure of the sphinx, either alone orwith an ear of corn, and the systrum, and other symbols of thiscountry, as in fig. 2. On one medal of Adrian, Egypt is re-presented as in fig. 3, under the form of a female holding thesistrum, or musical instrument used in the rites sacred toIsis. She rests on an urn full of fruits, emblematical of thefertility of the country ; and an Ibis, a bird sacred in Egypt, is standing near her. On another medal of Adrian, it isrepresented, as in fig. 4, by the figure of the Nile, underthe form of an old man lying with a cornucopia in his rightlend, and resting with bis hit elbow on an urn, pouringout wat