. History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria . THE SAITE FOETEESS OF DAPHNE. 348 THE MEDES AND THE SECOND CHALDEAN EMPIRE language/ and the interpreters thus educated in theirschools increased in proportion as the bonds of commercialand friendly intercourse between Greece and Egypt becamestrengthened, so that ere long, in the towns of the Delta,they constituted a regular class, whose function was toact as intermediaries between the two races. By thus bringing his subjects in contactwith an active, industrious, andenterprising nation, fullof youthful vigour,Psammetichus no doubthop

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. History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria . THE SAITE FOETEESS OF DAPHNE. 348 THE MEDES AND THE SECOND CHALDEAN EMPIRE language/ and the interpreters thus educated in theirschools increased in proportion as the bonds of commercialand friendly intercourse between Greece and Egypt becamestrengthened, so that ere long, in the towns of the Delta,they constituted a regular class, whose function was toact as intermediaries between the two races. By thus bringing his subjects in contactwith an active, industrious, andenterprising nation, fullof youthful vigour,Psammetichus no doubthoped to inspire themwith some of the quali-ties which he discernedin the colonists, butEgypt during the lasttwo centuries had suf-fered too much at thehands of foreigners ofall kinds to be favourably disposed to these would have been different had they presented themselvesin humble guise like the Asiatics and Africans to whom. EGTPTIAN

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