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| A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) | 9 | 9 | Browse | Search |
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462 B.C.When Conon was archon in Athens, in Rome the
consulship was held by Quintus Fabius Vibulanus and Tiberius Aemilius Mamercus. This year
Artaxerxes, the king of the Persians, appointed Achaemenes, who was a son of Darius and his own
uncle, to be commander in the war against the Egyptians; and turning over to him more than
three hundred thousand soldiers, counting both cavalry and infantry, he commanded him to subdue
the Egyptians. Now Achaemenes, when he had entered Egypt, pitched his camp near the Nile, and when he had rested his army after the march, he made ready for battle;
but the Egyptians, having gathered their army from Libya and Egypt, were awaiting the
auxiliary force of the Athenians. After the Athenians had
arrived in Egypt with two hundred ships and had been
drawn up with the Egyptians in battle order against the Persians, a mighty struggle took place.
And for a time the Persians with their superior numbers maintaine