HELIOPOLIS (anc. geog.), so called by Herodotus and Diodorus Siculus, by Moses On, and in Jeremiah Bethjemys; a city of Egypt, to the south-east of the Delta, and east of Memphis; of a very old standing,
standing, its origin terminating in fable. Here stood the temple of the sun, held in religious veneration. The city stood on an extraordinary mount, but in Strabo's time was desolate. It gave name to the Nomos Helio-polites.—There was another Helio-polis in Coele-syria, near the springs of the Orontes; so called from the worship of the sun, which was in great vogue over all Syria.