“By day, in the sight of all” (Clem. R.) The city was Heliopolis, according to Herodotus and the other ancient authors. But Milton, Paradise Lost, V. 272— ‘A phœnix gaz’d by all, as that sole bird, When to enshrine his reliques in the Sun’s Bright temple to Ægyptian Thebes he flies.’ Why does Milton despatch his bird to Thebes rather than Heliopolis?” (Lightfoot).