CANOPUS, or Canobus, (anc. geog.) a town of the Lower Egypt, on the Mediterranean, an hundred and twenty stadia, or fifteen miles to the east of Alexandria: as old as the war of Troy, Canopus, or Canobus, Menelaus's steersman, being there buried. Canopaei, the gentilicious name: famous for their luxury and debauchery, (Strabo, Juvenal.) See ABOURIR.