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MAGDOLUM

Volume 12 · 52 words · 1815 Edition

or MAGDALUM, in Ancient Geography, a town of the Lower Egypt, twelve miles to the south of Pelusium (Herodotus, Antonine), which doubtless is the Migdol or Magdol of Jeremiah.—Another MAGDALUM, or MIGDOL, denoting literally "a tower or place of strength," near the Red sea, (Moses); i.e. to the south of the former.