The boys' and girls' Herodotus; being parts of the history of Herodotus . and maketheir escape. Sesostris did so, and two of his sons were in thismanner burned to death, but the rest, together with their father,were saved. Sesostris having returned to Egypt, and taken re-venge on his brother, employed the multitude of prisoners v;homhe brought from the countries he had subdued in many remarka- FROM SESOSTRIS TO SETHON. 111 ble works : these were the men who drew the huge stones which,in the time of this king, were conveyed to the temple of Vulcan ;they, too, were compelled to dig all the canal
The boys' and girls' Herodotus; being parts of the history of Herodotus . and maketheir escape. Sesostris did so, and two of his sons were in thismanner burned to death, but the rest, together with their father,were saved. Sesostris having returned to Egypt, and taken re-venge on his brother, employed the multitude of prisoners v;homhe brought from the countries he had subdued in many remarka- FROM SESOSTRIS TO SETHON. 111 ble works : these were the men who drew the huge stones which,in the time of this king, were conveyed to the temple of Vulcan ;they, too, were compelled to dig all the canals now seen in Egypt;and thus by their involuntary labor made Egypt, which before wasthroughout practicable for horses and carriages, unfit for these pur-poses. But the king intersected the country with this network ofcanals for the reason that such of the Egyptians as occupied theinland cities, being in want of water when the river receded, wereforced to use a brackish beverage unfit to drink, which they drewfrom wells. They said also that this king divided the country. BUST OF THOTHMES I. amongst all the Egyptians, giving an equal square allotment toeach ; and thence drew his revenues by requiring them to pay afixed tax every year ; if the river happened to take away a part ofany ones allotment, he was to come to him and make known whathad happened ; whereupon the king sent persons to inspect andmeasure how much the land was diminished, that in future hemight pay a proportionate part of the appointed tax. Land-measuring appears to me to have had its beginning from this act,and to have passed over into Greece ; for the pole and the sun- ^ By the Greek word TLokoi Herodotus means a concave dial, shaped like the vault ofheaven. 112 HERODOTUS. dial, and the division of the day into twelve parts, the Greekslearned from the Babylonians. This king- was the only Egyptianthat ever ruled over Ethiopia ; he left as memorials in front ofVulcans temple statues of stone : two of thirty cubi
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