Heliŏpŏlis

, now Matarea , a famous city of Lower Egypt, in which was a temple sacred to the sun. The inhabitants worshipped a bull called Mnevis, with the same ceremonies as the Apis of Memphis. Apollo had an oracle there. Cicero , de Natura Deorum , bk. 3 , ch. 21 .— Pliny , bk. 36 , ch. 26 .— Strabo , bk. 17 .— Diodorus , bk. 1 .――There was a small village of the same name without the Delta, near Babylon.――A town of Syria, now Balbeck . Pliny , bk. 5 , ch. 22 .