American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth
Edition - Menes fl. 3000 B.C. King of Egypt who united Upper and
Lower Egypt, thus founding Egypt's first dynasty. “It was
attempted to prove, in the same way as a thousand other things
have been proved, that a king of Egypt, called Menes by the
Greeks, was the Chinese King Yu; and that Atoes was Ki, by the
change of certain letters.” “None of these cats is the modern
day King Menes, meaning they aren’t going to bridge the gap
between the commercial and underground and make it all one big
united Hip Hop family again.” “Farmers had already lived on the
banks of the Nile for several thousand years when, according to
tradition, Menes united the kingdoms of upper (southern) and
lower (northern) Egypt at the end of the fourth millennium B.C.
The Old Kingdom began a few centuries later with a highly
centralized government under the pharaohs.” “It was here the
greatest worship of Nile crocodiles took place, in a city
founded by Menes of the First Dynasty,