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While these things were going on, Acoris, the king of the Egyptians, being on unfriendly terms with the Persian King, collected a large mercenary force; for by offering high pay to those who enrolled and doing favours to many of them, he quickly induced many of the Greeks to take service with him for the campaign.1

1 This war between the Persians and the Egyptians (cp. Isoc. 4.140 f.; Dem. 20.76; Nepos Chabrias 2.1) belongs to an earlier period (according to Hall, Cambridge Ancient History, 6.145 f., to the years 385-383). Nectanebos became king of Egypt in succession to Acoris by 378 (ibid. 148). Olmstead, A. T., History of the Persian Empire, p. 399, gives 385-383 as dates of the war.

Diodorus Siculus. Diodorus of Sicily in Twelve Volumes with an English Translation by C. H. Oldfather. Vol. 4-8. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989.

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