Cănōpus

, a city of Egypt, 12 miles from Alexandria, celebrated for the temple of Serapis. It was founded by the Spartans, and therefore called Amyclæa, and it received its name from Canopus the pilot of the ve el of Menelaus, who was buried in this place. The inhabitants were di olute in their manners. Virgil bestows upon it the epithet of Pellæus , because Alexander, who was born at Pella, built Alexandria in the neighbourhood. Silius Italic us , bk. 11 , li. 433 .— Mela , bk. 1 , ch. 9 .— Strabo , bk. 17 .— Pliny , bk. 5 , ch. 31 .— Virgil , Georgics bk. 4 , li. 287 .――The pilot of the ship of Menelaus, who died in his youth on the coast of Egypt, by the bite of a serpent. Mela , bk. 2 , ch. 7 .