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Moreover, they decided to preserve the memory of their names by a common memorial, and so they made a labyrinth1 a little way beyond lake Moeris and near the place called the City of Crocodiles. I have seen it myself, and indeed words cannot describe it;2

1 This “labyrinth” was a horseshoe-shaped group of buildings, supposed to have been near the pyramid of Hawara (Sayce).

2 I take ἤδη as = δή, with λόγου μέζω.

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