The boys' and girls' Herodotus; being parts of the history of Herodotus . to you, pre-senting me as his own daughter; whereas, I am really the daugh-ter of Apries, whom he put to death, after he had incited the Egyp-tians to revolt. These words enraged Cambyses, and led him toinvade Egypt. EXPEDITIONS OF CAMBYSES. 139 A circumstance that few of those who have made voyages toEgypt have noticed, I shall now proceed to mention. From everypart of Greece, and also from Phoenicia, earthen vessels filled withwine are imported into Egypt twice every year, and yet not asingle one of these wine jars is
The boys' and girls' Herodotus; being parts of the history of Herodotus . to you, pre-senting me as his own daughter; whereas, I am really the daugh-ter of Apries, whom he put to death, after he had incited the Egyp-tians to revolt. These words enraged Cambyses, and led him toinvade Egypt. EXPEDITIONS OF CAMBYSES. 139 A circumstance that few of those who have made voyages toEgypt have noticed, I shall now proceed to mention. From everypart of Greece, and also from Phoenicia, earthen vessels filled withwine are imported into Egypt twice every year, and yet not asingle one of these wine jars is afterward to be seen. In whatway, then, you may ask, are they disposed of? Every magistrateis obliged to collect all the vessels from his own city, and sendthem to Memphis ; the people of that city fill them with water,and convey them to the arid parts of Syria ; so that the earthenvessels continually imported and landed in Egypt, are added tothose already in Syria. The Persians, as soon as they becamemasters of Egypt, facilitated the passage into that country, by sup-. EGYPTIAN POTTERY. plying it with water in this manner. But as, at that time, waterwas not provided, Cambyses, by the advice of a Halicarnassianstranger, sent ambassadors to the Arabian, and requested a safepassage, which he obtained, giving to, and receiving from him,pledges of faith. The Arabians observe pledges as religiously as any people :?when any wish to pledge their faith, a third person, standing be-tween the two parties, makes an incision with a sharp stone in thepalm of the hand, near the longest fingers, of both the contractors ;then taking some of the nap from the garment of each, he smearsseven stones, placed between them, with the blood ; and as hedoes this, he invokes Bacchus and Urania. When this ceremonyis completed, the person who pledges his faith, binds his friends as I40 HERODOTUS. sureties to the stranger, or the citizen, if the contract be made witha citizen, and the friends also hold them
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