112. Lycopolis is the modern Siut, or Osiot, a town of Said,
about the size of St. Denys, which drives a profitable trade
with the kingdom of Sennaar, and has a very convenient
fountain, "cujus potu signa virginitatis eripiuntur." See
D'Anville, Description de l'Egypte, p. 181. Abulfeda,
Descript. Egypt. p. 14; and the curious Annotations, p. 25,
92, of his editor Michaelis.