. History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria . which PsammetichusII. received the deputation of the Eleians, the prisonwhere the unfortunate Apries had languished after hisdefeat. The gateways of the temple of Nit seemed colossalto eyes accustomed to the modest dimensions of mostGreek sanctuaries; these were, moreover, the first greatmonuments that the strangers had seen since they landed,and the novelty of their appearance had a good deal todo with the keenness of the impression produced. Thegoddess showed herself in hospitable guise to the visitors ;she welcomed them all, Greek
. History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria . which PsammetichusII. received the deputation of the Eleians, the prisonwhere the unfortunate Apries had languished after hisdefeat. The gateways of the temple of Nit seemed colossalto eyes accustomed to the modest dimensions of mostGreek sanctuaries; these were, moreover, the first greatmonuments that the strangers had seen since they landed,and the novelty of their appearance had a good deal todo with the keenness of the impression produced. Thegoddess showed herself in hospitable guise to the visitors ;she welcomed them all, Greek or Persian, at her festivals,and initiated them into several of her minor rites, withoutdemanding from them anything beyond tolerance oncertain points of doctrine. Her dual attributes as wielderof the bow and shuttle had inspired the Greeks with thebelief that she was identical with that one of their owngoddesses who most nearly combined in her person thiscomplex mingling of war and industry: in her they Fountain and School of the Motherof Little Mohammed. Fountain and School of the Motherof Little Mohammed
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