Strabo, an accurate and attentive spectator, observes of Heliopolis, (Geograph. l. xvii. p. 1158); but of Memphis he declares,
however, the mixture of inhabitants, and the ruin of the palaces. In the proper Egypt, Ammianus enumerates Memphis among the four cities, maximis urbibus quibus provincia nitet (xxii. 16.); and the name of Memphis appears with distinction in the Roman Itinerary and episcopal lists.