Lewis & Short

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1. Aegyptus, i, f., = Αἴγυπτος, Egypt, sometimes reckoned by the ancients as belonging to Asia: Asiae prima pars Aegyptus, Mel. 1, 9: proxima Africae incolitur Aegyptus, etc., Plin. 5, 9, 9, § 48; Cic. Agr. 2, 16; Caes. B. C. 3, 106; Vulg. Gen. 12, 10; ib. Matt. 2, 13.

2. Aegyptus, i, m., acc. to the fable, a king of Egypt, son of Belus (acc. to others, of Neptune), and brother of Danaüs. He had fifty sons, to whom the fifty daughters of Danaüs were espoused, Hyg. Fab. 168.