The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . ah, sang the court poets, very wise are hisprojects—his words have as beneficial effect as those of Thot—everything whichhe does is completed to the end.—When lie is like a guide at the head of his<irmies—his voice penetrates the fortress walls.—Very friendly to those who bowtheir backs—before Miamun—his valiant soldiers spare him who humbles him-self—before ids courage and before his strength ;—they fall upon the Libyans—they consume the Syrian;—the Shardana whom thou hast brought back The numbers ari^ imrtly mutilated in the Triump
The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . ah, sang the court poets, very wise are hisprojects—his words have as beneficial effect as those of Thot—everything whichhe does is completed to the end.—When lie is like a guide at the head of his<irmies—his voice penetrates the fortress walls.—Very friendly to those who bowtheir backs—before Miamun—his valiant soldiers spare him who humbles him-self—before ids courage and before his strength ;—they fall upon the Libyans—they consume the Syrian;—the Shardana whom thou hast brought back The numbers ari^ imrtly mutilated in the Triumphal Interiplion, 11. 511-01 ; and do not entirelycoincide with those on the Athribis inscription (MasiEUq, Notes mr quelques points de Urammaire,?§ XXXV., in the Zeilschrift, 1«83, iijj. (Jo-CV), Triumphal Inicriiition of the Ameiuqihium, in Petkie, E<jypl and Lrael(Contemporary Review, , p. G22); I have given n paraphrase of the Egyptian text from the Etiglisli translation of Griffith. 436 TEE REACTION AGAINST STATUE OF m!nEPUTAH. by thy sword—mike prisoners of tlieir own tribes.—Veryhappy thy return to Thebes—victorious! Thy chariot isdrawn by hand—the conquered chiefs marchbackwards before thee—whilst thou leadestthem to thy venerable father—Amon, husbandof his mother. ^ And the poets amuse them-selves with summoning 3Iaraiii to appear inEgypt, pursued as he was by his own people andobliged to hide himself from them. He isnothing any longer hut a beaten man, and hasbecome a proverb among his chiefsrepeat to themselves: Nothing of the kind hasoccurred since the time of Ka. The old men sayeach one to his children : Misfortune to theLabu! it is all over with them ! No one can anylonger pass peacefully across the country ; butthe power of going out of our land has beentaken from us in a single day, and the TihoniVhave been withered up in a single year; Siitkhu has ceased to be their chief,and he devastates their d
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