(), an early king of Egypt, godless and tyrannical,
who, according to Herodotus and Diodorus, reigned for fifty years, and built the first and
largest pyramid by the compulsory labour of his subjects. Diodorus calls him Chembes or
Chemmis. His account agrees with that of Herodotus, except that he supposes seven generations
to have intervened between Remphis or Rhampsinitus and Cheops. (ad loc.;
CEPHREN.]