Mycerinus
Americannoun
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With their neat figures and confident smiles, the Old Kingdom ruler Mycerinus and his queen, in a renowned carved portrait, looked like friends of my parents arriving for cocktails, straight from a spaceship.
From New York Times • Jan. 15, 2010
Herodotus says, that he saw the bull of Mycerinus; and that it alluded to this history.
From A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Bryant, Jacob
In Obermann Once More, in Thyrsis, in The Scholar Gipsy, in Mycerinus, in Resignation, in the lines To a Gipsy Child, and in numerous other pieces we see the workings of this critical spirit.
From The Age of Tennyson by Walker, Hugh
One would naturally conclude, that so prudent and humane a conduct must have drawn down on Mycerinus the protection of the gods.
From The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6) by Rollin, Charles
Rhampsinitus, the predecessor of Cheops, appears to represent Rameses III. of the twentieth dynasty, and Mycerinus in Herodotus is but a few generations before Psammetichus, the founder of the twenty-sixth dynasty.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" by Various
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