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Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley) | 144 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Xenophon, Cyropaedia (ed. Walter Miller) | 82 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Pausanias, Description of Greece | 24 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation | 22 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Diodorus Siculus, Library | 20 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Polybius, Histories | 18 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Aeschylus, Persians (ed. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D.) | 18 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Isocrates, Speeches (ed. George Norlin) | 12 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Andocides, Speeches | 10 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Flavius Josephus, Against Apion (ed. William Whiston, A.M.) | 8 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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CambysesKing of Persia, 529-522 B.C. was by nature half-mad and his powers
of reasoning perverted, and the greatness of his kingdom rendered him much the more cruel and
arrogant. Cambyses the Persian,
after he had taken Memphis and Pelusium,525 B.C. since he could not bear his good fortune as men should,
dug up the tomb of Amasis, the former king of Egypt.
And finding his mummified corpse in the coffin, he outraged the body of the dead man, and after
showing every despite to the senseless corpse, he finally ordered it to be burned. For since it
was not the practice of the natives to consign the bodies of their dead to fire, he supposed
that in this fashion also he would be giving offence to him who had been long dead. When Cambyses was on the point of setting
out upon his campaign against Ethiopia, he dispatched
a part of his army against the inhabitants of Ammonium,The site of the oracle of Ammon, the present oasis of Siwah. giving ord
461 B.C.When Euthippus was archon in Athens, the Romans chose as consuls Quintus Servilius and Spurius Postumius
Albinus. During this year, in Asia Artabazus and Megabyzus, who had been dispatched to the war
against the Egyptians, set out from Persia with more
than three hundred thousand soldiers, counting both cavalry and infantry. When they arrived in Cilicia
and Phoenicia, they rested their land forces after the
journey and commanded the Cyprians and Phoenicians and Cilicians to supply ships. And when
three hundred triremes had been made ready, they fitted them out with the ablest marines and
arms and missiles and everything else that is useful in naval warfare. So these leaders were busy with their preparations and with giving their
soldiers training and accustoming every man to the practice of warfare, and they spent almost
this entire year in this way. Meanwhile the Athenians in
Egypt were besieging the troops which had taken