Μένδης

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Source

French (Bailly abrégé)

ητος (ἡ) :
Mendès, ville de la Basse-Égypte.

English (Slater)

Μένδης a nome and city of Egypt, near the eastern branch of the Nile, where it flows into lake Tanais. Αἰγυπτίαν Μένδητα, πὰρ κρημνὸν θάλασσας ἔσχατον Νείλου κέρας
   1by the sea bank, an end of a branch of the Nile. This fragment is used by Aristeides to illustrate what he considers to be Pindar's ignorance of Egyptian geography fr. 201. 1.