Sais

, now Sa , a town in the Delta of Egypt, situate between the Canopic and Sebennytican mouths of the Nile, and anciently the capital of Lower Egypt. There was there a celebrated temple dedicated to Minerva, with a room cut out of one stone, which had been conveyed by water from Elephant is by the labours of 2000 men in three years. The stone measured on the outside 21 cubits long, 14 broad, and eight high. Osiris was also buried near the town of Sais. The inhabitants were called Saitæ . One of the mouths of the Nile, which is adjoining to the town, has received the name of Saiticum . Strabo , bk. 17 .— Hero dot us , bk. 2 , ch. 17 , .