Mœris

, a king of India, who fled at the approach of Alexander. Curtius , bk. 9 , ch. 8 .――A steward of the shepherd Menalcas in Virgil’s , Eclogues , poem 9.――A king of Egypt. He was the last of the 300 kings from Menes to Sesostris, and reigned 68 years. Hero dot us , bk. 2 , ch. 13 .――A celebrated lake in Egypt, supposed to have been dug by the king of the same name. It is about 220 miles in circumference, and intended as a reservoir for the superfluous waters during the inundation of the Nile. There were two pyramids in it, 600 feet high, half of which lay under the water, and the other appeared above the surface. Hero dot us , bk. 2 , ch. 4 , . — Mela , bk. 1 , ch. 6 .— Pliny , bk. 36 , ch. 12 .