CANOPUS, or Canobus, according to Strabo, had been Menelaus's pilot, and had a temple erected to him
in a town called Canopus, near one of the mouths of the Nile. Dionysius mentions it:
Καὶ τῷ πειπύρῳ Ἀμύνει διὰ Κανόβου.
There stands Canobus' temple known to fame:
The pilot who from fair Amycla came.
Vossius remarks on this occasion, the vanity of the Greeks, who, as he conjectures, hearing of an Egyptian deity named Canopus, took from thence an opportunity of deifying the pilot of Menelaus who bore the same name, and giving out that the Egyptian god Canopus had been a Greek. F. Monfaucon gives several representations of this deity. One, in allusion to the victory above-mentioned, throws out water on every side through little holes.