or, as his name is written by Diodorus, *Chemi* or *Chimbes*, one of the first of the Egyptian kings, who is said to have built the pyramid called by his name, the largest and most ancient of those in the district of El Ghizeh. He died after a long and bloody reign of fifty years, and was succeeded by his brother Chephren or Cephren, who built the second of the pyramids, and for sixty-six years rendered himself as odious to his subjects as Cheops had been. See PYRAMID.