Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Memphis” in book 2, chapter 99, section 2 of Herodotus, The Histories:
...d Memphis from the Nile by a dam. All the river had flowed close under the sandy mountains on the Libyan side, but Min made the southern bend of it, which begins about twelve and one half miles above Memphis , by damming the stream, thereby drying up the ancient channel, and carried the river by a channel so that it flowed midway between the hills.
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