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Heracleopŏlis

（Ἡρακλεούπολις).

1.

Parva (ἡ μικρά), called Sethron, a city of Lower Egypt.

2.

Magna (ἡ μεγάλη), the capital of the Nomos Heracleopolites in Middle Egypt identical with Heraclea. See above.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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