The boys' and girls' Herodotus; being parts of the history of Herodotus . hold thechief sway in the infernal regions ; and the Egyptians were also thefirst who asserted the doctrine that the soul of man is immortal,and that when the body perishes the soul enters into some otheranimal, constantly springing into existence ; and when it haspassed through the different kinds of terrestrial, marine, and aerialbeings, it again enters into the body of a man that is born ; andthat this revolution is made in three thousand years. Now, they told me that down to the reign of Rhampsinitus FROM SESOSTRIS T
The boys' and girls' Herodotus; being parts of the history of Herodotus . hold thechief sway in the infernal regions ; and the Egyptians were also thefirst who asserted the doctrine that the soul of man is immortal,and that when the body perishes the soul enters into some otheranimal, constantly springing into existence ; and when it haspassed through the different kinds of terrestrial, marine, and aerialbeings, it again enters into the body of a man that is born ; andthat this revolution is made in three thousand years. Now, they told me that down to the reign of Rhampsinitus FROM SESOSTRIS TO SETHON. 117 there was a perfect distribution of justice, and that all Egypt wasin a high state of prosperity ; but that after him Cheops, coming toreign over them, plunged into every kind of wickedness. For,having shut up all the temples, he first of all forbade them to offersacrifice, and afterward ordered all the Egyptians to work for him;some, accordingly, were appointed to draw stones from the quar-ries in the Arabian mountain down to the Nile, others he ordered. BES AND HI. to receive the stones when transported in vessels across the river,and to drag them to the mountain called the Libyan. And theyworked to the number of a hundred thousand men at a time, eachparty during three months. The time during which the peoplewere thus harassed by toil lasted ten years on the road which theyconstructed, along which they drew the stones, a work, in myopinion, not much less than the pyramid : for its length is five Il8 HERODOTUS. stades, and its width ten orgyae, and its height, where it is thehighest, eight orgyae ; and it is of polished stone, with figurescarved on it: ten years, then, were expended on this road, and informing the subterraneous apartments on the hill, on which thepyramids stand, which he had made as a burial vault for himself,in an island, formed by draining a canal from the Nile. Twentyyears were spent in erecting the pyramid itself: of this, which issquare, eac
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