Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), N, Natalicii Ludi, Neco

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Neco

or Necho (Νεκώς, Νεχώς, Νεκαῦς, Νεχαώς: in Egyptian, Neku).

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An Egyptian, the grandfather (or father) of Psammetichus. He was defeated and imprisoned by Sardanapalus; but being at length released, became king of Saïs and Memphis (Herod.ii. 152).

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The son of Psammetichus, succeeding his father on the throne of Egypt in B.C. 612. He attempted to cut a canal to connect the Nile with the Arabian Gulf—a project that had interested his predecessors, Seti I. and Rameses II. The attempt was abandoned after he had lost 120,000 men and had received a warning from an oracle to the effect that he was only labouring for the barbarians (Herod.ii. 158). In his reign it is reported that Phœnicians in his service circumnavigated the continent of Africa, setting sail from the Arabian Gulf, and, at the end of two years, entering the Mediterranean through the Strait of Gibraltar (Herod.iv. 42). See Africa.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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