Heracleum

, a promontory of Cappadocia.――A town of Egypt near Canopus, on the western mouth of the Nile, to which it gave its name. Diodorus , bk. 1 .— Tacitus , Annals , bk. 2 , ch. 60 .— Strabo , bks. 2 & 17.――The port town of Gno us in Crete.