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Definition of Nomes
1. nome [n] - See also: nome
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nomes
Literary usage of Nomes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Egypt Under the Pharaohs: Derived Entirely from the Monuments by Heinrich Karl Brugsch, Henry Danby Seymour (1881)
"Beyond these island nomes, other districts extended on the Arabian and Libyan
sides of the Lower Egyptian region of the stream. ..."
2. History of the Literature of Ancient Greece: To the Period of Isocrates by Karl Otfried Müller, George Cornewall Lewis (1847)
"These nomes of Terpander were arranged for sinking and playing upon the cithara.
It cannot, indeed, be doubted that Terpander made use of the flute, ..."
3. The Geography of Herodotus ...: Illustrated from Modern Researches and by James Talboys Wheeler (1854)
"... which intersected Aegypt in ~ every direction, obviated this evil, but rendered
the country impassable for chariots or horses.1 The nomes in Lower ..."
4. Papers of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University by Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology (1900)
"Pursuing our investigations of the territorial divisions of Egypt, we learn, from
Mr. Wallis Budge, that collectively there were 42 nomes in Upper and Lower ..."
5. The Ancient History: Containing the History of the Egyptians, Assyrians by Charles Rollin (1844)
"The number of nomes is not easily determined, for scarcely two writers agree on
the subject. They seem to have varied at different tunes ;* and they were ..."
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