Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Memphis” in book 2 of Herodotus, The Histories:
...a Phrygian word, signifying bread.
Reasoning from this, the Egyptians acknowledged that the Phrygians were older than they. This is the story which I heard from the priests of Hephaestus' temple at Memphis ; the Greeks say among many foolish things that Psammetichus had the children reared by women whose tongues he had cut out.
Besides this story of the rearing of the children, I also heard other t...
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† | Memphis (Egypt) | 156 | 86 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | |
Memphis (Tennessee, United States) | 1,036 | 0 | 908 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
Memphis (Texas, United States) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
Memphis (Alabama, United States) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
Memphis (Alabama, United States) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
Memphis (Florida, United States) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
Memphis (Michigan, United States) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
Memphis (Nebraska, United States) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
Memphis (New Mexico, United States) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
Memphis (New Mexico, United States) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
Memphis (New York, United States) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
Memphis (Ohio, United States) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes |
† This entity has been selected by the automated classifier as the most likely match in this context. It may or may not be the correct match.