. History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria . Persians unprepared : they shut themselves up in theirstrongholds, and the Pharaoh confided to his cousinNectanebo, son of the regent, the taskof dislodging them. The war draggedon for some time; discontent creptin among the native levies, and broughttreachery in its train. The fiscalmeasures which had been adoptedhad exasperated the priests and thecommon people; complaints, at firstonly muttered in fear, found bold ex- , ., . NECTANEBO I. pression as soon as the expeditionaryforce had crossed the frontier. The regent secretlyencourag
. History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria . Persians unprepared : they shut themselves up in theirstrongholds, and the Pharaoh confided to his cousinNectanebo, son of the regent, the taskof dislodging them. The war draggedon for some time; discontent creptin among the native levies, and broughttreachery in its train. The fiscalmeasures which had been adoptedhad exasperated the priests and thecommon people; complaints, at firstonly muttered in fear, found bold ex- , ., . NECTANEBO I. pression as soon as the expeditionaryforce had crossed the frontier. The regent secretlyencouraged the malcontents, and wrote to his son warn-ing him of what was going on, and advised him toseize the crown. Nectanebo could easily have won overthe Egyptian troops to his cause, but their support wouldhave proved useless as long as the Greeks did not pro-nounce in his favour, and Chabrias refused to break hisoaths. Agesilaus, however, was not troubled by the samescruples. His vanity had been sorely wounded by the 1 Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from 300 THE LAST DAYS OF THE OLD EASTERN WORLD Pharaoh: after being denied the position which was, hefancied, his by right, his short stature, his ill-health, andnative coarseness had exposed him to the unseemlymockery of the courtiers. Tachos, considering his abilityhad been over-estimated, applied to him, it is said, thefable of the mountain bringing forth a mouse ; to which hehad replied, When opportunity offers, I will prove to himthat I am the lion. When Tachos requested him to bringthe rebels to order, he answered ironically that he wasthere to help the Egyptians, not to attack them; andbefore giving his support to either of the rival claimants, heshould consult the Ephors. The Ephors enjoined him toact in accordance with the welfare of his country, and hethereupon took the side of Nectanebo, despite the remon-strances of Chabrias. Tach6s, deserted by his veterans,fled to Sidon, and thence to Susa, where Artaxerxesreceived
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