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The ‘Psammenitus’ of H. and the ‘Psammicherites’ (or Psammecheres) of Manetho (F. H. G. ii. 594) are both transliterations of the Egyptian name ‘Psamtik’. The Greeks varied as much in their rendering of Oriental names as English scholars do in dealing with Indian ones.

Ctesias (9, p. 66) calls him Amyrtaeus, confusing him with the fifth-century rebel (15. 3 n.); in his story, Combaphes, a eunuch, plays the part of Phanes and ‘betrays the bridges’.

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