Αἴγυπτος
Aigyptos, Aegyptus, Egypt
Translated by Phiroze Vasunia4 Oct 2001Vetting: high10 revisions
Translation
A personal name. Also the country of the Egyptians.
[Note] that when Hermes, the son of Pekos who is also Zeus,1 arrived, Mestrem2 was the king of those there; his was the name they changed to Aigyptos, and from him the country too [was called] Egypt; he was of the race of Noah.
[Note] that the plagues in Egypt lasted for 40 days.3
[Note] that4 Anaxagoras and Pythagoras arrrived in Egypt and conversed with the learned Egyptians and Hebrews there and acquired their knowledge about the things that exist, and later Plato did so as well, as Plutarch says in his Parallel Lives.5 Indeed, Egyptians were the first to name the sun and the moon gods: they called the sun Osiris, and the moon Isis, since they saw these going [i)o/ntas ] at a run and running [qe/ontas ], [deriving the word] "gods" [qeoi/ ] from running [qe/ein ] and going [i)e/nai ].
[Note] that when Hermes, the son of Pekos who is also Zeus,1 arrived, Mestrem2 was the king of those there; his was the name they changed to Aigyptos, and from him the country too [was called] Egypt; he was of the race of Noah.
[Note] that the plagues in Egypt lasted for 40 days.3
[Note] that4 Anaxagoras and Pythagoras arrrived in Egypt and conversed with the learned Egyptians and Hebrews there and acquired their knowledge about the things that exist, and later Plato did so as well, as Plutarch says in his Parallel Lives.5 Indeed, Egyptians were the first to name the sun and the moon gods: they called the sun Osiris, and the moon Isis, since they saw these going [