Each of the nomes was conducted to the aula appointed for it.
But according to some writers, all the nomes together amounted to the number of chambers in the Labyrinth.
According to Diodorus, the nomes date from Sesostris.
For the most part, the old divisions of the nomes were kept, but sometimes two or more nomes were thrown together and united under a single governor.
The aid of Egypt was implored, and certain promises of support and assistance received, in part from Tehrak, in part from Shabatok and other native rulers of nomes and cities.
Ere long these commands became hereditary, and the feudal system, which had anciently prevailed among the chiefs of nomes or cantons, re-established itself for the advantage of the members of the reigning house.
The nomes of the Delta which had taken a foremost part in the rising were ruthlessly raided, the priests heavily fined, and the oracle of Buto deprived of its possessions as a punishment for the encouragement freely given to the rebels.
The nomes of Middle Egypt, which had suffered considerably during the Ethiopian and Assyrian wars, had some chance of prosperity now that their lords were relieved from the necessity of constantly fighting for some fresh pretender.
Since the downfall of the Saites, the eastern nomes of the Delta had always constituted a single fief, which the Greeks called the kingdom of Libya.
The operating animals evidently represent nomes and tribes of the Upper Egyptians.
The political divisions of the country seem, then, to be of extremely ancient origin, and if the nomes go back to a time before the Semitic invasions, so may also the kingdoms of the South and North.
We can therefore with confidence assign the formation of the nomes to very early times.
Now the names of the nomes and the symbols or emblems by which they were distinguished are of very great interest in this connection.
A fine altar of gray granite, with representations in relief of the nomes bringing offerings, was also recovered.
Again, the boundaries of the nomes had never been officially determined, and during the years of confusion, strong nobles had infringed upon the possessions of weaker ones.
The modern name of the tract of land which lay formerly in the XXth and XXIst nomes of Upper Egypt, south-west of the Pyramids.
The nomes are our friends, and they possess magic powers that will enable them to protect the prisoners from discovery.
If an egg touches them--either the outer shell or the inside of the egg--the nomes lose their charm of perpetual life and thereafter are liable to die through accident or old age, just as all humans are.
Rinkitink's country is separated from the country of the Nomes by a row of high and steep mountains, from which it extends to the sea.
The nomes are immortal; that is, they do not perish, as mortals do, unless they happen to come in contact with an egg.
Chapter Seventeen The Nome King The Kingdom of the Nomes does not border on the Nonestic Ocean, from which it is separated by the Kingdom of Rinkitink and the Country of the Wheelers, which is a part of the Land of Ev.
The nomes were ruled, at the time of which I write, by a King named Kaliko.
The nomes are busy people, constantly digging up gold in one place and taking it to another place, where they secretly bury it, and perhaps this is the reason they alone know where to find it.
The Wizard carried a little black bag containing his tools of wizardry, while Dorothy carried over her arm a covered basket in which she had placed a dozen eggs, with which to conquer the nomes if she had any trouble with them.
The nomes are a numerous and mischievous people, living in underground caverns of wide extent, connected one with another by arches and passages.
Instantly nomes began to pour in through the side arches in great numbers, until the immense space was packed with them as far as the eye could reach.
They had both been there before and had conquered the nomes with ease, so they were not at all afraid.
They were still captives but they believed they would be happier in the underground caverns of the nomes than in Regos and Coregos.
All three of these caverns had been roughly hewn from the rock and it seemed they had never been put to use, as had all the other caverns of the nomes he had visited.
Very good," said King Kaliko, nodding approval, for like all the nomes he loved treasures of gold and jewels.
The nomes are immortal; that is, they do not perish, as mortals do, unless they happen to come in contact with an egg.
The standards borne before the Pharaoh on the plaque of Kom el-Ahmar were the standards of the nomesover which he claimed rule.
To him was ascribed the creation of the world, just as it was ascribed by each of the other nomes to their chief god.
Up to the age of the Hyksos conquest the hereditary princes of the nomes were feudal lords, owning a qualified obedience to the Pharaoh, and furnishing him with tribute and soldiers when called upon to do so.
The serpent of Shekh Heridi, with his miraculous powers of healing, must thus have been already famous in the days when the nomes of Upper Egypt first received their names.
Here on his judgment throne sat Osiris, surrounded by the forty-two assessors of divine justice from the forty-two nomes of Egypt, while Thoth and the other deities of the Osirian cycle stood near at hand.
They became the nomes of Pharaonic Egypt, separate districts resembling to a certain degree the States of the American Republic, and preserving to the last their independent life and organisation.
Up to the last, too, the gods of the several nomespreserved a semblance of their independent character.
It was not thenomes that were birds or men, but the deities worshipped in them.
The Ennead, once created, was readily adopted by the other nomes of Egypt.
When the river had been embanked and its waters been made a blessing instead of a curse, the sacred animals and the gods of the nomes were too firmly established to be displaced.
There were other nomesbesides the Fayyum in which the crocodile was worshipped.
Along with Palestine and Cyprus it formed the fifth of the twenty nomes into which his empire was divided, and they paid jointly a tribute of 350 talents--just half the money-tribute which was levied from Egypt.
The nature-god as well as the animal-god was worshipped in his own nome, where he dwelt in the midst of his own community of worshippers; he was not recognised in other nomes unless there were special reasons for it.
Here he stands before forty-two judges (compare the number of the nomes of Egypt) styled Lords of Truth, each of whom is there to judge of a particular sin, and to each he has to profess that he did not when on earth commit that sin.
The sacred animals of thenomes would then be "the totems of the clans which first settled in these localities.
No attempt in the direction of a system of gods had any success; local deities could not be suppressed; the nomes retained their separate deities and religious establishments to the end.
Ye saw the nomes of the South: not one [soul] was slain therein except the rebels who had blasphemed God.
Ist nomes in Lower Egypt, in their proper order; the last, Mennefer, being Memphis.
The Nomes started to laugh again; but a low growl came from the mountain, and in a flash they had all vanished from sight and were silent.
Really the Nomes had nothing to laugh at, since the defeat of their King.
A vast cave extended for miles and miles under the mountain, and in every direction were furnaces and forges glowing brightly and Nomes hammering upon precious metals or polishing gleaming jewels.
Here, in my underground kingdom, they are rank poison, as I said, and we Nomes can't bear them around.
There was no reply, except that the shifting Nomes upon the mountain laughed in derision.
The captain of the Nomes was so surprised by this sudden onslaught that he forgot to command his warriors to fight, so that the ten men in the first row, who stood in front of the private's spear, fell over like so many toy soldiers.
Only the mocking laughter replied to her, and the shadowy Nomes continued to flit here and there upon the rocky cliff.
Just then the Nomeslaughed again, and the sound was so weird and disheartening that the twenty-six officers commanded the private to "right-about-face!
Then," said Ozma, "we will arrange to start for the Kingdom of the Nomes at daybreak tomorrow.
Kiki didn't like the way Ruggedo acted either, for the former King of the Nomes wanted to do everything his own way, and made the boy, who alone possessed the power of transformations, obey his orders as if he were a slave.
And so the wandering ex-King of the Nomes found a new home, a peaceful and happy home, where he was quite content and passed his days in innocent enjoyment.
The Nome detested anything in the way of a bird, because birds lay eggs and eggs are feared by all the Nomes more than anything else in the world.
The nobles of the western nomes acknowledged as their overlords the regents of Sais, the descendants of that Bocchoris who had for a short while brought the whole valley of the Nile under his sway.
Apries gave the refugees a welcome, and assigned them certain villages near to his military colony at Daphnae, whence they soon spread into the neighbouring nomes as far as Migdol, Memphis, and even as far as the Thebaid.
At what period this union of the nomes into two kingdoms occurred, we can only conjecture.
After some centuries, through the conquest of one nome by another, these 42 nomes were consolidated into two kingdoms.
At the beginning of this period the powerful nobles in the different nomes seem, many of them, to have set up each a government of his own.
The 20 nomesof the Delta formed the kingdom of Lower Egypt; the 22 nomes, which were ranged along the Nile from Cairo to the First Cataract, formed the kingdom of Upper Egypt.
Hrihor boldly assumed as prenomen his title of "First Prophet of Amon," and his authority was acknowledged by Ethiopia, over which he was viceroy, as well as by the nomes forming the temporal domain of the high priests.
They were, it is true, dangerous rivals, both on account of the wealth of their fief and of the immense prestige which they enjoyed in Egypt, Ethiopia, and in all the nomes devoted to the worship of Amon.
Semites abounded, it is true, in the eastern nomes of the Delta, but their presence had no effect on the military strength of the country.
The sound of the breaking dishes, as they struck the floor, added to the King's terror and he yelled again and dashed into a great cavern where a thousand Nomes were at work hammering metal.
The Nome King turned pale, for he loved to rule the Nomes and did not know of any other way to earn a living in case Ozma fought and conquered him.
So the Nome King will send them through the tunnel first, to conquer and destroy, and then the Nomes will follow after to get their share of the plunder and slaves.
So he has ordered his Nomes to dig a long tunnel underneath the deadly desert, so that he may march his hosts right into the Emerald City.
You are the strongest people in all the world, and you hate good and happy creatures as much as we Nomes do.
When they were not required as soldiers all these Nomes were metal workers and miners, and they had hammered so much at the forges and dug so hard with pick and shovel that they had acquired great muscular strength.
Guph knew very well that the Phanfasms would be almost as dangerous to the Nomes as they would to the Ozites, but he thought himself so clever that he believed he could manage these strange creatures and make them obey him.
While they are conquering Oz I'll get the Magic Belt, and then only the Nomeswill remain to ravage the country.
General Guph thought the Whimsies would be a great help to the Nomes in the conquest of Oz, for under his leadership they could be induced to fight as long so they could stand up.
Said General Guph to the Chief of the Whimsies: "We Nomes are going to conquer the Land of Oz and capture our King's Magic Belt, which the Oz people stole from him.
Nomes are immortals, but they are not strong on magic.
So I think it is lucky that this messenger from the Nomes arrived among us just now, to remind us that the opportunity has come for us to make trouble.
It will be ready in three days," promised the King, and hurried away to inspect the work and see that the Nomes kept busy.
But there are a hundred Nomes better fitted to command your army, and your Generals get thrown away so often that I have no desire to be one of them.
My Nomes are good fighters, but they are not strong enough to conquer the Emerald City.
Before he left the tunnel he had commanded his fifty thousand Nomes to remain there until he ordered them to advance, as he wished to give his allies time to conquer Oz before he appeared with his own army.
We will not say that we intend to conquer the Nomes after we have conquered Oz, but we will do so, just the same.
Everywhere, in all nomes and towns, the adoration of Osiris, chiefly as the god and redeemer of the dead, was practised.
The bands of the four nomes were ranged behind Kamenophis, and the bands of the nome of Heliopolis behind Pimoni the Little.
The natives of Egypt were by no means travellers, and for the most part confined their journeyings and excursions to the precincts of their own country, and even to their own nomes or provinces.
Petekhousou has vanquished my son, and the bands of the four strongest nomes in Egypt have been overthrown.
Then Pimoni, encouraged by Pakrourou, sent messages of a similar import to all his nomesand cities.
It would serve no purpose to enumerate the gods of the various nomes in this place, as many of them are obscure, but as each deity is dealt with the nome to which he belongs will be mentioned.
Only four nomes in the middle of the Delta were subject to Kamenophis, whilst Ierharerou had succeeded in establishing either his children or relations in most of the other nomes.
We know that many of the standards which represent the nomes of Egypt are distinguished by figures of birds and animals, e.
Lastly, in many of the nomes of Egypt certain animals were not eaten by the inhabitants.
Ruggedo was fond of magic, and learned a good many enchantments that we nomes know nothing of.
The nomes trembled at the sound of the King's gong and whispered fearfully to one another that something unpleasant was sure to happen; but none dared pause in his task.
If by chance the inside of an egg touches one of these underground people, he withers up and blows away and that is the end of him--unless he manages quickly to speak a magical word which only a few of the nomes know.
I'll summon my army of nomes to drive the invaders out of my territory, and if we catch any of them I intend to stick needles into them until they hop with pain.
This accomplished, they all entered the passage, the nomes going first to light the way with their torches.
The nomes did not await the Clockwork Man's attack but in a twinkling disappeared into the underground caverns.
Then the ends of the chain were drawn tight--for in an adjoining cavern a thousand nomes were pulling on them--and so the dragon could advance no further toward the King.
I must send some of my nomes to gather up these gems and replace them in the Metal Forest, where they belong.
There were, indeed, hundreds of nomes assembled, and they were led by Guph, their most famous General.
But the effect upon the nomes of this simple thing was astounding.
Now the army of nomes had gathered thickly around the mouth of the Tube, in order to be ready to capture the band of invaders as soon as they popped out.
Chapter Twenty Quox Quietly Quits When the chief nomes assembled before their new King they joyfully saluted him and promised to obey his commands.
A dozen of my nomes can destroy them all in a jiffy.
The division into districts or nomes was continued; subject perhaps, in some cases, to alterations.
The number of the districts or nomes appears to have been augmented; probably with a political view, in order that no governor or monarch should be invested with too great a share of power.
This province of Cush extended from Napata just below the Fourth Cataract on the south to El Kab in the north, so that it included the first three nomes of Upper Egypt, which agriculturally were not greatly superior to Nubia.
Some nomes having a common badge but distinguished as "nearer" or "further," i.
They are found in inscriptions as early as the end of the IIIrd Dynasty, and the very name of Thoth, and that of another very ancient god, are derived from those of two contiguous nomes in Lower Egypt.
If Upper and Lower Egypt represented ancient kingdoms, the nomes have been thought to carry on the traditions of tribal settlements.
Harpoon nomes are widely separated on opposite sides of the Delta.
The number and nomenclature of the nomes were never absolutely fixed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nomes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
