Note 101
From The Invasion of Egypt, part of Chapter 51 of the Decline & Fall

Strabo, an accurate and attentive spectator, observes of Heliopolis, Ancient Greek
(Geograph. l. xvii. p. 1158); but of Memphis he declares, Ancient Greek
(p. 1161); however, the mixture of inhabitants, and the ruin of the palaces. In the proper Egypt, Ammianus enumerates Memphis among the four cities, maximis urbibus quibus provincia nitet (xxii. 16.); and the name of Memphis appears with distinction in the Roman Itinerary and episcopal lists.

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