RAAMSES, or Rameses, a City built by Ex. i. 11.the Hebrews, during the time of their Servitude in Egypt, and which probably took its Name from the King of the Country, who Horodot. l. 2. c. 59. 71, & 165. Plin. l. 6. c. 27.set them to work. Its Situation is not known. Herodotus speaks of Papremisus in the Lower Egypt, and Pliny joins together the Ramisians and Patamians; which are probably the People that inhabited the two Cities of Pithom and Raamses. He joins them to the Arabians bordering upon Egypt.
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