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Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley) | 554 | 0 | Browse | Search |
World English Bible (ed. Rainbow Missions, Inc., Rainbow Missions, Inc.; revision of the American Standard Version of 1901) | 226 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Flavius Josephus, Against Apion (ed. William Whiston, A.M.) | 154 | 0 | Browse | Search |
World English Bible (ed. Rainbow Missions, Inc., Rainbow Missions, Inc.; revision of the American Standard Version of 1901) | 150 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Flavius Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews (ed. William Whiston, A.M.) | 138 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Pausanias, Description of Greece | 92 | 0 | Browse | Search |
M. Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia (ed. Sir Edward Ridley) | 54 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Demosthenes, Speeches 51-61 | 50 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation | 46 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Apollodorus, Library and Epitome (ed. Sir James George Frazer) | 42 | 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 or
After Cambyses, the king of the Persians,
had made himself lord of all Egypt, the Libyans and
Cyrenaeans, who had been allies of the Egyptians, sent presents to him and declared their
willingness to obey his every command.Const. Exc. 1, p. 397.
Xerxes, vying with the zeal displayed by the Carthaginians,
surpassed them in all his preparations to the degree that he excelled the Carthaginians in the
multitude of peoples at his command. And he began to have ships built throughout all the
territory along the sea that was subject to him, both Egypt and Phoenicia and Cyprus, Cilicia and
Pamphylia and Pisidia, and also Lycia, Caria, Mysia, the
Troad, and the cities on the Hellespont, and Bithynia, and Pontus. Spending a period
of three years, as did the Carthaginians, on his preparations, he made ready more than twelve
hundred warships. He was aided in this by his father Darius,
who before his death had made preparations of great armaments; for Darius, after Datis, his
general, had been defeated by the Athenians at Marathon, had continued to be angry with the
Athenians for having won that battle. But Darius, when already about to cross overi.e. from Asia into
Europe via the