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
They suppose it to relate to a daughter of Mycerinus, the son of Cheops.
From A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Bryant, Jacob
For Mycerinus either never left or else returned to the religion of the Egyptians.
From Myths and Marvels of Astronomy by Proctor, Richard A. (Richard Anthony)
A sarcophagus was found in this room, in which was the coffin of King Mycerinus, and his name on it.
From What We Saw in Egypt by Anonymous
Herbert W. Paul, writing of Mycerinus, declares that no such verse has been written in England since Wordsworth's Laodamia; and continues, "The poem abounds in single lines of haunting charm."
From Matthew Arnold's Sohrab and Rustum and Other Poems by Arnold, Matthew
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