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On the banks of the Nile she resumed her original form and gave birth to a son called Epaphus, who afterwards became king of Egypt, and built the famous city of Memphis.
Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome E.M. Berens
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Of all these animals, the bull Apis, called Epaphus by the Greeks, was the most famous. (
The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6) Charles Rollin 1701
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For verily Epaphus was the child of the almighty Son of
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Huge Earth bare these to Epaphus — soothsaying people, knowing seercraft by the will of Zeus the lord of oracles, but deceivers, to the end that men whose thought passes their utterance 131 might be subject to the gods and suffer harm — Aethiopians and Libyans and mare-milking
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Here he has wholly passed by Epaphus, Io, Iasus, and Argus, being ambitious not only to make the other Herculeses Egyptians and Phoenicians but to carry this also, whom himself declares to have been the third, out of Greece to the barbarians.
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Chalbes and Epaphus (for the grandfather of Busiris) are all explicable as
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various
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[19] Libya the daughter of Epaphus bore to Neptune Agenor and Belus.
The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. 480? BC-406 BC Euripides
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Moved by his entreaties, and at the same time angry at the reproach of Epaphus, Clymene pointed to the glorious sun, then shining down upon them, and assured her son that in that bright orb he beheld the author of his being, adding that if he had still any doubt, he might visit the radiant dwelling of the great god of light and inquire for himself.
Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome E.M. Berens
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Huge Earth bare these to Epaphus -- soothsaying people, knowing seercraft by the will of Zeus the lord of oracles, but deceivers, to the end that men whose thought passes their utterance
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For verily Epaphus was the child of the almighty Son of Cronos, and from him sprang the dark Libyans, and high-souled Aethiopians, and the Underground-folk and feeble Pygmies.
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