. The history of Herodotus. A new English version, ed. with copious notes and appendices, illustrating the history and geography of Herodotus, from the most recent sources of information; and embodying the chief results, historical and ethnographical, which have been obtained in the progress of cuneiform and hieroglyphical discovery . then, with their aid and that of theEgyptians who espoused his cause, attacked the eleven andvanquished them.^ * The improbability of a few Ionianand Carian pirates having enabledPsammetichus to obtain possession ofthe throne is sufficiently obvious. TheEgyptians
. The history of Herodotus. A new English version, ed. with copious notes and appendices, illustrating the history and geography of Herodotus, from the most recent sources of information; and embodying the chief results, historical and ethnographical, which have been obtained in the progress of cuneiform and hieroglyphical discovery . then, with their aid and that of theEgyptians who espoused his cause, attacked the eleven andvanquished them.^ * The improbability of a few Ionianand Carian pirates having enabledPsammetichus to obtain possession ofthe throne is sufficiently obvious. TheEgyptians may not have been willing toinform Herodotus how long their kingshad employed Greek mercenai-y troopsbefore the Iersian invasion ; and a bodyof troops would not have landed oppor-tunely to fulfil an oracle. This was infact the first time that the EgyptianPharaohs had recourse to Greek mer- cenaries, and began to find their utility;and though the ancient kings in theglorious times of Egypts great powerhad foreign auxiliaries (see woodcut;and that in note, B. vii. ch. 61, wherethree of these people are enemies ofEgypt), they wei-e levies composing partof the army, like those of the variousnations which contributed to the expe-ditions of Xerxes and other Persianmonarchs. But the introduction ofGreek paid troops into the Egyptian. Foreign Auxiliaries In the time of Remeses III. service excited the jealousy of the nativearmy (who could not have been long inperceiving the superiority of thosestrangers); and the favour shown to them led to the defection of the Egyp-tian ti-oops (see note ^ on ch. 30). TheEgyptian army had lost its former mili-tary ardour; and now that Syria was so 200 HIS IONIAN AND CARIAN SOLDIERS. Book II. 153. When Psammetichiis had thus become sole monarch ofEgypt, he built the southern gateway of the temple of Vulcan inMemphis, and also a court for Apis, in which Αγήπ is keptwhenever he makes his appearance in Egypt. This court isopposite the gateway of Psam
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