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PART I.
iEGYPTI AC A.
69
of one of the moft judicious modern travellers, when
we fuppofe, that with fome building or other it was
originally connectedq. Moreover its Shaft is of the
fame kind of done with thofe large pillars, the remains
great Pyramids of Giza. Now, the Sphynx was certainly an objeCt not
lefs prominent and ftriking in the front of the Pyramids, than our Column
was, when considered in its connection with the Serapeum. Moreover,
Strabo mentions,the lake of Moeris, and fays, “ it was admirable, being
“ like a fea for greatnefs and colour yet he adds not a fyllable refpedting
the two great Pyramids that were in the midft of it *, and which are both
particularly defcribed by Herodotus and Diodorus Siculus f.
* &avp.arjv Ss xou rjv Xtp.vrjv sya [Ar/v-rfro;] rjv MoipiSos xa.Xnp,Evrlv, msXay'iav rip p.sys§a
xoj rV SaXarlosiSj' xdj rov; aiyixXov; 5s es~iv opav koixora; ro7g SaXarhoi;. Strabo,
p. 1163.
f Ts 5s XaSvpIvSn rovrs eoyIos roiirs, Suiiip.a. en p.s£ov mapeyslai j Moipio; xaXsopsvT) Alp.vrj,
■ssap rjv 0 XaXvpivQos iro; o«o5o’pjrai. Trj; to TtEplp.erpov rjs rtspioSa eitr* rdSioi sfaxocr 101 79 Tfdr-
yiXioi, cryolvivv kgijxovra Iovruiv, ?<roi xa) avrvjf Alyvirrov to mapoi SaXartrccv. Khraj 5s p,axpj
j xlp.vrj mpos /3opjv Ts jc, vorov, sSra (3ct7jo(, rj /3a$vrdrrj aurrj suiurj;, mvr^xovropyvio;. "On
Ss yapoKoW)r6s es~i xj oovxrj, avrj 5i;AoT. ’Ey yap p-etry rj Xipovr, p.aXis~d xi) sracn Svo rtvpa.p.l-
Ss{, rS uSa.ro; uirepsyairaj rtevrjxovra opyuia; kxarsprp xj to xar vSa.ro; olxoSop-r/rou srspov roaS-
rov xj lit dp.porspr<ri siesri xoXocrcro; X&ivo;, xarjp.evo; |y Spovcv. Ourov a! p.sv ■mvpap.lSs; str)
Sxarov opyviEMv, at S' kxarov opyvia) Slxaia! eicn rdSiov SjavXEdpov. Herodot. edit. Wefi'eling.
p. 177.-xa.Xovp.Evri pdypi rS vvv MolpiSo; Xip-v/j. O S' ev fSa.mXEv; opvrlwv ravryv, xark-
Xiitsv ev pkar roirov, ev w rdpov ujxoSop.T)<rE xj Svo ■mvpapJSa,;, rjv p.'ev havra, rjv Ss rj; yvvoaxo
raSiala; ro vpo;' e<p’ ujv kirk^TiO'Ev dxova; XiSrlva;, xa^p.kva; km Srpov8. DiOD. Sicul. edit.
Wefl’eling. tom. i. p. 62.
s “ Les quatre coins de /' Obelifque de Cleopatre repondent a peu pres
“ aux quatre coins du monde. Mais les coins du Piedeftal de la Colonne
“ de Pompee femblent decliner environ de 12 degres. 11 eft done proba-
“ ble, qu’en erigeant cette Colonne, on ne s’eft regie que fur la fkuation
des edifices d’alentour, et non pas fur un Meridien, comme on a
“ fait en erigeant les Pyramides.” Niebuhr, tom. i. p. 39.
iEGYPTI AC A.
69
of one of the moft judicious modern travellers, when
we fuppofe, that with fome building or other it was
originally connectedq. Moreover its Shaft is of the
fame kind of done with thofe large pillars, the remains
great Pyramids of Giza. Now, the Sphynx was certainly an objeCt not
lefs prominent and ftriking in the front of the Pyramids, than our Column
was, when considered in its connection with the Serapeum. Moreover,
Strabo mentions,the lake of Moeris, and fays, “ it was admirable, being
“ like a fea for greatnefs and colour yet he adds not a fyllable refpedting
the two great Pyramids that were in the midft of it *, and which are both
particularly defcribed by Herodotus and Diodorus Siculus f.
* &avp.arjv Ss xou rjv Xtp.vrjv sya [Ar/v-rfro;] rjv MoipiSos xa.Xnp,Evrlv, msXay'iav rip p.sys§a
xoj rV SaXarlosiSj' xdj rov; aiyixXov; 5s es~iv opav koixora; ro7g SaXarhoi;. Strabo,
p. 1163.
f Ts 5s XaSvpIvSn rovrs eoyIos roiirs, Suiiip.a. en p.s£ov mapeyslai j Moipio; xaXsopsvT) Alp.vrj,
■ssap rjv 0 XaXvpivQos iro; o«o5o’pjrai. Trj; to TtEplp.erpov rjs rtspioSa eitr* rdSioi sfaxocr 101 79 Tfdr-
yiXioi, cryolvivv kgijxovra Iovruiv, ?<roi xa) avrvjf Alyvirrov to mapoi SaXartrccv. Khraj 5s p,axpj
j xlp.vrj mpos /3opjv Ts jc, vorov, sSra (3ct7jo(, rj /3a$vrdrrj aurrj suiurj;, mvr^xovropyvio;. "On
Ss yapoKoW)r6s es~i xj oovxrj, avrj 5i;AoT. ’Ey yap p-etry rj Xipovr, p.aXis~d xi) sracn Svo rtvpa.p.l-
Ss{, rS uSa.ro; uirepsyairaj rtevrjxovra opyuia; kxarsprp xj to xar vSa.ro; olxoSop-r/rou srspov roaS-
rov xj lit dp.porspr<ri siesri xoXocrcro; X&ivo;, xarjp.evo; |y Spovcv. Ourov a! p.sv ■mvpap.lSs; str)
Sxarov opyviEMv, at S' kxarov opyvia) Slxaia! eicn rdSiov SjavXEdpov. Herodot. edit. Wefi'eling.
p. 177.-xa.Xovp.Evri pdypi rS vvv MolpiSo; Xip-v/j. O S' ev fSa.mXEv; opvrlwv ravryv, xark-
Xiitsv ev pkar roirov, ev w rdpov ujxoSop.T)<rE xj Svo ■mvpapJSa,;, rjv p.'ev havra, rjv Ss rj; yvvoaxo
raSiala; ro vpo;' e<p’ ujv kirk^TiO'Ev dxova; XiSrlva;, xa^p.kva; km Srpov8. DiOD. Sicul. edit.
Wefl’eling. tom. i. p. 62.
s “ Les quatre coins de /' Obelifque de Cleopatre repondent a peu pres
“ aux quatre coins du monde. Mais les coins du Piedeftal de la Colonne
“ de Pompee femblent decliner environ de 12 degres. 11 eft done proba-
“ ble, qu’en erigeant cette Colonne, on ne s’eft regie que fur la fkuation
des edifices d’alentour, et non pas fur un Meridien, comme on a
“ fait en erigeant les Pyramides.” Niebuhr, tom. i. p. 39.