George Rawlinson - Ancient-Egypt

60
—Manners,
61
 
Amenemhat
I.,
I02
twofold,
119,
120
Amenemhat's
into
149
obelisks,
186
diffusion,
202
208-
211
212
—The
—
and ex-
character,
222.
XIV.
of
Saplal
245
253
General
sketch
of
289
314
to
Napata,
334
—Egypt
split
342—
Libyan
origin
of
Psamatik
I.,
344
—His
Lydia,
377>
37^
Xerxes,
381,
382
by Athens,
394)
395
SPHINX
HATASU .
1
83
a
little
below
blossom
which
the
projection
rendered cultivable
the
First
broad, never more
 
crowns, as
kings of
 
that
green
with
;
by
yellow
ac-
valley,
nearly
fifty
give
the
name
as has
The
true
Egypt
the
Hebrews,
of
the
Greeks
and
its
own
people
in
this
southwards.
of
the
Nile
valley
rocky and
is in the
be
Red
Sea
does
to
this
day,
in the
with
its
height,
the
entire
bed,
and
presenting
at
that
time
the
appearance
of
a
portion of sediment
rate on
one, a
so wills, to
the industry ol
it
reclaims
of waters,
for the
scooped out b}' its
by a
of
man,
fluid
sufficed
to
spread
the desert blossom like a
garden.
abode
god,
that
A
of
all,
To
enlighten
omen :
or to the
something,
no
doubt,
to
have
red argillaceous
soil brought
Moreover, the
than
 
very
cucumbers,
lettuces,
and
most
and Memphis,
Mareotis
at
Sebennytus
 
 
 
—
way of the Red
always
natural
western
coast
or India, The
of
he
will, is the difficulty of
locomotion and
of transport.
Mountains, forests,
 
road
seven
pre-
sents
the
water, but
out of
the expanse
or
six
is more
rapid than
cool
hottest season
have
Europe
; by
no
hotter sun,
and
twenty-fifth
parallels,
are,
in
been
anciently
more especially
on its
The fabric was
the
white water-lily
the
gods
March, though there
waters, or
;
the
landscape
are
lit
up
by
delicate, that the homely
light stretch themselves
above the
violet.
A
glamour
of sun-
effect;
 the
redness
comes
deep
blue-grey.
The
yellow
moon
with many-coloured stars.
sunsets, of
they
they
them,
particular portion of
monkey
in
the
land
than
ceivable
that
the
people,
as
blending
but strongly
Ended
his
task
;
'
At peace ever
And
thy
Take
thy
Even
they
who
the
and
In the
had a saying
  ^
the Egyptians
—crowding
into
times
their hands
in the
outward
Egyptian
religion ?
Nishem,
and
the
Pantheon.
was
immediately
the prime
of the sun
the good god, and
torrent
. .
.
human,
animal,
ruling in
the upper
Egyptians,
taught
them
to
the vine, gave
which he
had found all the
to
and
the
very
principle
with some of
the Ramesside kings,
of
the
Hapi.
Besides
generative
Thoth
of
the
evil
deities,
whose
names
forty-two
assessors,
the
by
good
spirits
to
Aahlu
(Elysium),
to
the
ordeal was
Shii,
the companion
;
former
body,
the crowning
said
hymns
suffi-
of their
another
mother
intrigued
with
those
 
In
the
rearing
of
cattle.
A
sad one. The kings
of
their
labours,
and
not
easy
Egypt with most
history
myth-
spirits,
been said
other
Egyptian
remains,
which
and
show
lively.
Seb,
hatched
it.
the sea,
poured out ;
valley,
any
of the
spreads itself on every side to the sea. Hence there
would be
easy access
defensible
position,
one
was right, or that
lived. The force of
when
the
idea
of
a difficulty
the
valley.
city
of
Menes
was,
according
to
the
His creatures.
Ghizeh,
situated
within
prevailing
appellations
the
yet not so near as to attract the cupidity of
pirates.
Few
placed.
It
than that
of
This last fact
Manetho,
notwithstanding
a victim to
whom
the
herself
figured
as
a
hippopotamus
is
found
in so many
the
word
would
be
suspicious
of the many
one,
as
founders
of
monarchies
The city was, however,
con-
valley
of the Nile was one of the first seats of civilization.
Abraham found
first
civilization
successors
were
of
no
an
enemy,
ourselves
what
he
sufficient
to
amount and
attained by
own
tombs contain
apparent
that
the
:**yle
of
writing
has
hiero-
glyphical,
and
writing,
though
it
is
eagle
are
well
important than the
utterly
perished,
many in an
an
excavation
carefully closed
early
in
a
worship
of
chamber
part in the
older
erected
considerable height,
consequently
constructing
73°
30'.
The
a
thick
little
above
the
knee,
only decoration
which he
a
walking-
to
with bracelets,
;
two
broad
straps
passed
over
representation
being
on
an
her
appears seated with him on the same seat or chair.
There
and
actually
to
the
discoverers,
the
lay
an
or-
of
solid
In
another,
which
had
an
the monarch,
lined
with
at an
that
of
the
spire
estimated
at
71,670,000
amount
convey
but
little
an
by
have
building
containing
four
thousand
 
and
depth—
round
have required
outer air
in
was
in the
be
accepted
as
sufificient
evidence
 
construction required
wide
deal,
though
the
hundred
and
twenty
side upon
the walls
so as
 
at
constructed
such magnificent
held within
necessary,
we
may
add
that
laid their dead.
The marvel is,
a king's
from
the
known that
finish
which should put
to shame all
previous monuments, and
the
regard
of
human
suffering,
regard
'or
the
for a
their sighs
and groans
glorification,
remains.
an
impious
kings,
much
they
oppressed
their
people.
There
or foreigners,
steeled their hearts
persed to
construction.
The
immense
more
perfect
mechanically
has
greatest
of
the
pyramids
is
certainly
from
the
that
animals tramp
morose
and
the
people.
by
any
or
chastisement
of
otherwise tranquillity
1816,
A
small
temple
behind
the
of it.
In the
yet every
line
seen,
for a
us
except
the
employed by
watch-dog,
scroll
of
their
valley
of
launched a fleet
second had
to piling
of wells
not
only
with
reliefs
He
found
were
forgotten
at hand.
dared not
.
to be
hungered
;
his
time
Thebes
in
regard
L2gypt,
then,
position.
Amenemhat
down the
Nile valley
anciently
on
either
sportsmen either
plied them
joins the spine
falling
drew
and
exhibited
him
before
the
eyes
of
the
people.
associate
him
with
himself
in
made Egypt
flourish. His
a
to
Egypt,
insigni-
Ameni was able
troops
to
penetrate
to
capture
It
POWER.
merely
turned
above
the
Second
Cataract
sleepy
'
cut into
the stone.
and is known as
men,
colours,
One plays
up two pillars with
goats, or
his sixteenth
year, to
and children, much
as recently did
his
name,
a
favourite
and
fertility.
the same now as it was when the first Pharaoh
poured
his
libation
to
and further it
brick,
collapse
regions
stored
their
corn
in
stone
granaries
which
 
news reaches
news reaches
inhabitants,
making
its
food
Birch
observes,
dynasty,
were
so
important,
and
were
considered
worthy
Abydos
show
the
stances
needs and
and
gallons
thus
of streams
level, ceaselessly.
been
covered
fifty
is
possible
of the inundation passed
whether this
the
inundation
—
deep
must
south-eastern or upper portion of the
depression only,
of the
able land
of the
only
the
the Fayoum through-
of
the
whole
to the
This alone
would in
to
a
large
edifice in
all the
the Greeks
not
equal,
;
them underground,
hundred. The
through and saw,
is from my
Labyrinth, and also
pyramid, forty
which is
hundred
feet,
deal
same
material
but it is not likely the designers of the building
had
any
intention
to
It
is
perhaps
noticeable
may
mean
development.
Commerce,
of
we
know
not
how
many
the
Palestinian
uplands,
there
 
all,
king's
interests
(Gen.
xlvii.
 
as
the
water
were
beginning
to
faint
and
the
long
travel,
a
dark
front, and
soon the
of
from
and
execute
under
each prince
that corrupt system
from
an
 
to
enter
entered, he
was seized
a
fair
fact,
;
any
consider-
able
orders
would
in
the
sciences
years
the
scripture
does
not
Divine
sure, required him to
of
Abraham's
sojourn
is it
time.
most
probably
of
Semitic
interest
to
the
hoping
looked
that the
with
and
negroes
peace,
for
existence
to
aggressive
one
of
as
follows
Moreover they savagely set
they
found,
moreover,
the
east
hundred
see
their
sup-
plies
soldiers
and
their
invading army, like
overwhelming
flood
sword,
clastic
spirit
ever the flood passed,
civilization, deeply impregnated
temples
and
shrines,
with
monuments,
says
M.
Francois
Lenormant,
scattered
ruins
which
I37
sible.
The
acts of
tribute,
retained
a
yield to the means
time their sanctity was first violated
and their
vol
i.
p.
;
Saites.
Of
undoubtedly
to
be preferred, since the first has in its favour only the
single
ported
by
and
must
Country,
at
Memphis,
at
the
same
Of
are silent, or nearly
On
the
whole,
have
enlarged
it,
duration of the foreign oppression had
been much
place.
As
the
Mongols
and
South,
resident
at
Thebes
any
connection
with
made war
conquerors
grew
softened
by
his
predecessors
him
with
whole
of
Egypt,
as
Joseph's
Pharaoh
learned scribes,
a magni-
Delta, either
firm
and
determined
initiating
that the
the population by massacre and oppression, should
have
are
with
difficulty
held
under,
rebelling
may continue
it
desires,
sation of actual
become
relaxed,
the
type
;
bracing
lives;
and the
the
Hyksos
monarchs
as
their
their
and thus
up
a
considerable
been
driven into
by
the
last
almost
ludicrous
they
followed, so
each year
was strongly
fortified by
of the
amounted
to
time
the
greatest
have
distinct
content
their
stragglers
from
Vast
numbers
in
Ethiopians.
His
complexion
to
South,
of
through
during
the
two
preceding
reigns,
by
King
Aahmes,
and
his knee,
;
over their
a
large
tract
of
once
to
the
glory
of
the
conquering
show
a
South, as
Petti
of
Nubia
pointment
iron
heel
;
tribute
requisite
for
should
be
xiv.
1-4)
Thothmes.
its own
of
the
Negeb
would
world's
as
unproductive
as
and the deep
any road,
the
valley
is
almost
the
time
observed, im-
and
and that
chariots
of the chariots was
It
is
uncertain
equally
from
his
satisfied
by
court,
constructions of a
made by
front
monoliths of granite, each of
them seventy-five
all the chief
The greatness
due that
her
nations.
Henceforth
them,
as
they
which
the
ages
had
it was not
the ancient mythical
Sneferu,
a
strong
one,
expressive
of
affairs
At this period
Queen
from the simple
it ulti-
tions
of
The
temple
is
cruciform
in
shape,
;
duced at
the weak
the porch
but of un-
is
nearly
square,
about
not
pected
father. She
appears also
to
and Lower Egypt,
the
masculine
and
femi-
;
 
the
n.
was
formed
the
western
whether
the
wind
Punt
of
sula,
or
to the
one
which Africa has so
visitors,
and
with
from them
the
cassia,
to
Egypt.
partly
by
way
; but
instead
of
re-shipped on board
capital. The day
household
a
chiefs
of
precious frankincense
trees
were
Hatasu,
delighted
to
pre-
vent
building a new temple
held on
the occasion,
in a subjection
allowed
his
name
a
secondary
and
works
granite, or syenite, drawn
of
beauty of
with the most
during this
public documents. She
 
her
dis-
covered
to
victim
of
a
conspiracy
that
^
 
was
made
by
the head of
a
long
career
of
victory,
to
work
to
accomplish
took
his
march
along
was the anni-
Having rested
a single night,
posted
at
the
mouth
loss or difficulty, and
plain
king of
Kadesh fell
the
last
we
find
included
three
coming
as
ships,
returning
precious stones, of
sons of the chiefs
most remarkable.
this
occasion
directed
into Adiabene
Ni
it
was
within
upon it
at this
of Assyria and
be
coming,
and
brought
Egypt
influence
it, and was
were
to
 
captured.
Further
re-
sistance
been
partly
light, since
his
He took a
from
the
he
visited,
and
sought
to
different
of
the
he
went
productions,
pictures,
with
Besides
the
attacks on Syria and
the
southern
Euxine
Karnak. The
I
scattered
I
came,
and
thou
smotest
Holiness in
of the
;
young
bull.
Courageous,
with
sharp
The land of
thy war-cry
Who shews himself at
Holiness
as
a
lion,
fierce
of
eye.
boldest in
pair
of
brothers,
Whose
builder
a vent
of
about
a
hundred
world
three
wide,
slabs
eastwards,
—
great
obelisks,
is the largest and
monuments now extant.
KARNAK.
insignificance
in
weight con-
indication
of
their
existence,
perhaps
is placed
most populous
Ocean,
and
now
teaches
great things
 
talent,
that
has
seldom
been
exceeded,
Oxus. He
which
endured
for
nearly
empire which
Alexander was,
who are
quests in
reconquer
all
the
his father,
forehead,
and that
sufficient
pursued
by
this
time
Nairi,
the
Rutennu,
and
have other-
heat of
battle, but
Philistines
hung
the
bodies
—not perhaps
at
Thebes,
Twin
impression
placed
here
upon
an
account
of
the
feelings
with
which
he
the
places
 who
was their measure
landed at
as
chief attractions
the
the present
Homer,
son
an army of
Ethiopians to the
a sound—
disappointed altogether, sometimes
desired voice.
thir-
teen
or
intentionally
made
they
could
the mouth
25-10),
when
Egypt
priests had
visit,
also
disap-
25)
dated
an
earthquake
which
wrought
once
shattered
**
took place
form like that
effect was to
arrangement,
the
scientific persons
of
'
found
music beyond
my
if it
stood alone,
different
angle
from
siderable
building, but
pains seem to
unremit-
ting
On
the
distinction. He
Taurus
the
Third
Thothmes.
The
in
person
and twelve,
while the
captives consisted
of two
the
chase
He
by Amenhotep
III. to
embraced
a
new
belief
professed.
Externally,
matter
of
worships
except
the
worMip
''
phrase,
 the
or
Harmachis,
symbols of life
wor-
shipper.
What
widely
grandest
of
ten
thousand
blessings,
the
not
unlikely
Tabernacle,
further
notes
that
the
commencement
as if the captive race had
been
own name
soon
after
with
and alone represented in
the temples. The enmity,
powerful influence and the
rosy
as his wives prevailed
made
use
of
for
posed
an
apaiigasma,
or
as
lords
paramount
under
a
single
monarch
by
a
long
series
two
own
country.
his forces in
battle
to
the
declared
the
;
among them as
besides,
the
prestige
of
a
great
victory.
front
and
of
 
Seti,
having
made
preparation
for
against
invasion
from
Asia.
This
wall
that the palmy
days of the
Ramesses
II.,
she had
Mautenar, the
Egyptians,
the
Mous
Masius
himself foiled,
of this
troops
Orontes
in
greatest
 
poem
of
Pentaour,
and
which
Ramesses
to perform several
long war.
243
com-
;
persons
thus
the close
existing bond. Ramesses
in the thirty-fourth
he
had
vanity,
rather
African
transcend
equals
artistic
or of
245
itself
of all
Seti's works
hall is
internal area
with
its
sixty-one columns, each
ever rested.
The mass
of its
;
all
combine
to
of
man's
architectural
works,
but
would
indi-
vidual
most
wonderful
of
the
tombs.
The
enormity, and astonish by the
engineering
the decorations that
all
saloon with
to
end
of
the
cessions of
of
genii,
good
at the close of
of which lies
seem
to
his
memorials.
inch
by
nose,
and
same
three
times
over
foot.
here
portrait-
on,
i
must have covered at least two reigns, so that, if
it began
builder
of
Pithom
(Pa-
he
provoked
Moses
the field
engaged
are
when
reproduced
in
it
aquiline
nose,
a
well-shaped
his
tranquillity
might
twenty,
dream
very
commenced
in
quilHty of his reign was an invasion
of
his
territories
the more warlike
history, who had
so
long
coveted,
which
purpose of
first
Kahaka,
to
thirty
thousand,
and
then
a1
upon
the
Mediterranean,
to
their cockle-shells of
to
take
Exodus on the
they
navigators half
the
It
is
quite
conceivable
that
the
arts
of
of
like
Hyksos had
bulls, oxen, and
drinking
vessels
of
 
of the
strengthened
their
to drive
strenuous
himself at the
sopis
wives,
duct is the more
enemy,
avoids exposing himself
battlefield ?
There
is
no
evidence
that
the
hands
at once
broke up
the most
trusted of
long
period
elapsed
between
a year or two of the
death of Ramesses
very long
demand which
began to
vii.
2-4),
would
less
than
a
million
anxious
at
the
moment
to
265
hand
up
waters
of
the
in pursuit
utter
destruction
no
further
effort.
If
cally, it affected the
with
of varied orna-
of sphinxes
and colossi,
leading to
towers, and spires
are
colonnades
and
who could
detail,
nor Gothic
the grada-
.
.
use sculpture in
combination with architecture,
other, linking
the whole
of
and more
were
awoke.
Egypt
felt
by
a
foreigner
of
a
race
and so a
 
lish
the
king towards himself,
ment
to
many
years
—
in appro-
priating to
Siphthah and
his queen,
Taouris, erased
by the
in
their
place.
By
Heliopolis
(On)
for
of
he
employed
mental
in
carrying
his
with reason, that though he
never ceased, during the
abroad,
and
the
his
wars
and
and
though
once
driven
back,
continued
to
dash
battle
the
seven
the
mire.
Hundreds
chariot force and his
strike
made a
the Persians often did their
prisoners, and forced
Egyptian
fleet.
they
confined
in
nations, which
and
but
her former
un-
wieldy
such
encumbrances.
the Khita,
mish
was
wholly
ineffectual.
to
disap-
pointment.
garrisons,
and
and
calmly
awaited
train
of
their
places
of
the Egyptians,
thousands on the
proved sufficient
vessel's
play the
part of
our own
Several
by
the
land-force
it impossible
and
vainglorious
stood upon
achievements of my
and who
combat. The
several
quarrelling
which
but
were
there
completely
defeated
and
repulsed
nations which
this
attack
upon
the
North
Egyptians in
last twenty,
Above all, luxury,
spread
that
it
was
possible
by
charms,
black
art
to
the
Royal Com-
old ideas
cation of
Though
not,
289
be
aware
fections
in
the
lute
existence
from
first
to
last ;
that
of
for the
time being,
bestowed on
his temple
;
High-Priest
a
certain
features
that
were
delicate
state besides his
discharge
would
possible, in
his task
he
banished
the
the throne
through scenes
But
ultimately
premacy over Syria.
;
of
Ammon
to
play.
Ordinarily
an
absentee
thus
gave
an
additional
military
ex-
peditions.
If
materials
the close of
her
power grew up in it. In
the later half
Men-khepr-ra
him
yond his
A
brisk
trade
(ib.
x.
28,
: and
seem,
affected
since
together
with
the
porch,
its
Holy
Place,
its
Holy
often
century and a
have
cases
the
royal Mesopotamian
the
it till
Meso-
potamian
the
land
of
the
Pharaohs.
made its home. Sheshonk's
grandfather, who bore the
honour
of
intermarrying
into
Sheshonk
himself,
thus
descended,
the
easy
 
one of
and thus
the way for
would terminate
he could
his
in-
against
a
new
such
alike,
and
soldiers
by
peace, during
(i Kings
chariots, and
cavalry, and
trained footmen
of Egypt
no
regularly
organized
to
Israel,
peculiarly
cir-
cumstanced.
of
the
religious
changes
effected
hotbeds
of
rebellion.
Jeroboam,
he
proceeded
to
best
Impress
the
mass
Thoth-
meses
 
as
union, Syria
queror.
Judaea,
ever
numerically
chariots,
probably
Egyptian
to
before the
imaginations.
If
destroy the
as
the Sheshonk dy-
and his descendants made a rule to entrust all posi-
tions
of
importance,
whether
civil
Pharaoh,
most
and in the south.
declined,
and
threatened
the
soHd
laid in the
house and
the year
of Phthah,
?.nd
day
to
twenty-six
years.
Such
is
the
historical
literature
of
the
period.
The
only
other
kind
When
Shu
Tefnut
;
of
his
members,
and
this
vaguely to
a
thousand
miles
divided
up
among
an
or
Kushi
—a
term
manifestly
and
The Ethiopians
half
Egyp-
tianized,
when,
to expect
down to us, is a certain Piankhi, who called himself
Mi-Ammon,
or
Meri-Ammon
of
A
prince
named
authority
twenty- first
year (about
until revolt
attacks
country. Already
fell
in
with
the
the confederates
of
his
capital
by
Nile,
besieged
the
quitted
and
reached
Thebes
in
towers were
brought up
reinstate him
Piankhi received the submission of Heracleopolis,
the
capital
of
appeared before
 
within the precincts
fled
after
the
they sang,
mother
rejoices
who
who
begat
thee
herself, and
in a
mounted
the
Ethiopian
—
to
the great monarchy
arch,
722
was
Egypt.
a
long
Phoenician
Ammon,
Moab,
and
Edom
of
from the
century.
by
Judea
as
its
Amanus, and the
carrying
princes.
He
style
the greatest
engaged in
north,
and
a
and
carrying
him
off
a
prisoner
to
Babylon,
had
collected
frontier,
about
Pelusium
and
its
resolution
of
pro-
to
such a way
as to turn
facili-
his
army
The
are
said
sight of numerous
way surprising to
Phthah—
during
or
for
their
own
private
Egypt
as
far
as
NAHR-EL-KELB.
'/I
the
conqueror
governors
whom
Esarhaddon
patriotic
addition that
Esarhaddon had
settled, the
kings
themselves
greater
One
due
respect
Memphis
opened
her
gates,
sub-
mission
of Egypt appear
to have been
had traversed
five
destroyed,
trees
cut
;
once
more
live,
siderable period
been cast
of
Libyan
origin
more than
AGAIN.
had
reigned
at
take any step
difficulty, by the revolt
moment
of
power of
of
this.
lend
AGAIN.
of
life
or
death
So
they
gathered
from
Busiris, and
Tafnekht from
Momeisnphis,
the
modern
Menouf,
now
at
The
for
Ethiopia
a
Piankhi,
assured
lacked.
Uniting
henceforth
in
of
the
elevation of
the nation-
the question
wars
carefully repaired
periodically.
Out
of
Egypt,
life into the
he
set
himself
to
canals
and
where
completeness to the
Phthah,
Apis-Bulls,
surrounded
by
a
bricklayers
period.
There
rests
upon
incredible delicacy
of which
but
somewhat
realistic
countries
from
excellent
paper
foreign
commerce
lost
those
ideas
concerning
them
Neco,
having
in
of
life,
probably
by
to
relinquish
gaining
his
of
the
mariners, as the boldest and experi-
enced,
accustomed
to
antici-
pated
Straits
of
Gibraltar,
reach
Egypt
Nabopolassar or to
Philistia
and
Sharon,
successful,
his
own
of pres-
to
retrieve
it.
Too
old
away backward
Jehovah.
Let
not
the
go up, and I will cover
the
of
be
made
satiate
and
country,
between the
contest,
evacuated
Syria
and
Palestine,
First inaugurated, continued
the
obelisks,
wherewith
he
adorned
the
dromos
Elephantine a
land
Phoenicia
rebelled
under
after the
prestige, as she best
or nine
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an
end
in
Whether
Apries,
on
finding
that
Babylonian host and
was
forced
feather.
were burnt,
quarter
by
the
these parts,
then
endeavoured
further
to
strengthen
of
have
been
Nebuchadnezzar's
direct
to
Elephantine,
which
he
ductive undertakings.
with
for
The
to
living,
may
have
more. His
architectural works
his
or
began
to
be
penetrated
by
Greek
influence,
completely
the
was able
to render
no
interference
with
the
of
any demands for
and
for
the
though
he
The circumstances under which
he
assumed
through
probably
bonadius
him
on
the
request
of
Croesus.
Croesus
was
lord
of
portant a personage
they no douth:
which
was
was
an
independent
integration
of
the
a
league
against
to
prevent
him
arch
with terri-
tories which
he had
account
of
the
against Amasis. First, the conquest of
the
nations
attention,
 
she actually endured
who
succeeded
immense
water
and
stores,
and
of
Nile,
and
the
sea, and
mouths,
and
to
the
baggage
animals.
A
crossed
brought
Third.
This
mercenaries,
and
fofce,
and
an Egyptian
a
carnage.
reached
flat, with
that has not been raised by man. The valley of
the
Nile
plain,
wherein
the
full
force
of
?
de-
cisive
seem
sometimes
to
require
from
without,
land,
while
the
fleet
blockaded
outrage
the
detected in
shall take away
with
them
by
the
sword.
.
. .
always
under
excitement
the
country,
to
soothe
the
such
a hundred
tion
he
mined
reverse in
had
taken
greatly
to
ing
it.
The
excellent
Xerxes, who
easily
crushed
all
resistance,
and
of
Xerxes
by
navy
of
the
by
taking
was
under
manned
by
to assist
swept
this
against the rebels. Megabyzus
Persian garrison which held the citadel, and recovered
possession of the
Megabyzus besieged them without
the
island,
and
overwhelmed
the
unhappy
hundred vessels
the
Libyan
monarch,
History,
Labyrinth,
again
not
The
Greek
thwarted.
Their
we have thus, at this
period of
the history,
five reigns
each was
about B.C.
place
confidently rely on
water.
No
doubt
special
reference
The
Hav-
ing
obtained
the
services
to the
leisurely, manner
walls,
difficulty
to any
of the expedition would be accomplished. In vain
did
Iphicrates
offer
behind
if he
himself
the
arrival
of
of
neighbour-
in
a
number
of
blow,
and
the
Nile
to
rise.
possible
of all
her ancient
dignity and
glory. Nectanebo
once in the
found
at
Edfu,
and
at
to
period.' The
witness
to
plunged
in
a
civil
war.
But
before the party of
King. Ochus,
mercenaries,
under
committing
wars
no
nations under his direct
by
into
the
hands
was
executed
by
fallen.
14,000
Greeks,
Greek and a
the
first
division,
con-
sisting
mainly
of
where
the
Argive
his own
nebf, on his side, was only
able to oppose to
Lake
Serbonis
from
with
of the
nation intact.
under Lacrates
upon
himself
and
asking
a
great
com-
mander,
making any
fled
away
into
Ethiopia.
having
was
was
king, was a
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