Lycopolis or Lykopolis or the Deltaic Lycopolis was an ancient town in the Sebennytic nome

Nome

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 in Lower Egypt

Lower Egypt

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, in the neighbourhood of Mendes

Mendes

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, and, from its appellation, apparently founded by a colony of Osirian

Osiris

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 priests from the town of Lycopolis in Upper Egypt

Upper Egypt

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. The Deltaic Lycopolis was the birthplace of the Neo-Platonic philosopher Plotinus

Plotinus

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 in 204

204

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. (Suidas, p. 3015.)