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RHAMPSINITOS

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Rhampsinitos The Greek form of Rameses Ill., the richest of the Egyptian king, who amassed seventy-seven millions sterling, which he secured in a treasury of stone, but by an artifice of the builder he was robbed every night.
Herodotos (bk. ii. chap. 121) tells us that two brothers were the architects of the treasury, and that they placed in the wall a removable stone, through which they crept every night to purloin the store. The king, after a time, noticed the diminution, and set a trap to catch the thieves. One of the brothers was caught in the trap, but the other brother, to prevent detection, cut off his head and made good his escape.
This tale is almost identical with that of Trophonios, told by Pausanias. Hyrieus (3 syl.) a Boeotian king employed Trophonios and his brother to build him a treasury. In so doing they also contrived to place in the wall a removable stone, through which they crept nightly to purloin the king's stores. Hyrieus also set a trap to catch the thief, and one of the brothers was caught; but Trophonios cut off his head to prevent detection, and made good his escape. There cannot be a doubt that the two tales are in reality one and the same. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: RHAMPSINITOS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-h-i-i-m-n-o-p-r-s-s-t"

-2 letters: historians, prosimians.

-3 letters: aphorisms, aphorists, atropisms, himations, hispanism, histamins, historian, impassion, imprisons, isarithms, isthmians, mispaints, mispoints, misprints, mistrains, pastromis, prosimian, protamins, saintship, sportsman, tranships, transship.

-4 letters: airposts, airships, amitosis, amorists, animists, antiship, aphorism, aphorist, arsonist, aspirins, astonish, atropins, atropism, hairpins, harpists, himation, histamin, hornists, hospitia, impaints, impastos, imprints, imprison, ironists, isarithm, isthmian, maintops.

 Words containing the letters "a-h-i-i-m-n-o-p-r-s-s-t"
 

+1 letter: misanthropies.

 

+4 letters: enantiomorphisms, hypervitaminoses, hypervitaminosis, psychometricians.

 

+5 letters: hyperstimulations.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: RHAMPSINITOS


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

52 48 41 4D 50 53 49 4E 49 54 4F 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010010 01001000 01000001 01001101 01010000 01010011 01001001 01001110 01001001 01010100 01001111 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0048 0041 004D 0050 0053 0049 004E 0049 0054 004F 0053

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

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