Canopus
Place
Alexandrian War 25 supplies the first indexed source portrait: “… Accordingly they stationed some lightly armed vessels on guard at suitable points near Canopus, and lay in wait for our ships and supplies. …”
Named form in selected editions; identity established only to the extent of the cited context.
Alexandrian War 25
Pseudo-Caesar; authorship disputed
… Accordingly they stationed some lightly armed vessels on guard at suitable points near Canopus, and lay in wait for our ships and supplies. …
Geographical record
Pleiades representative point · precise
An ancient Egyptian city of the Nile river delta. Canopus was located in the seventh nome (Menelaites) on the western bank at the mouth of the westernmost branch of the Nile.
Pleiades 727097 · CC BY 3.0 · Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 74 C2 Canopus