Peeps at Many Lands: Ancient Greece (Yesterday's Classics) by Baikie James

Author:Baikie, James [Baikie, James]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History
ISBN: 9781599152899
Publisher: Yesterday's Classics
Published: 2010-11-14T17:17:40.022000+00:00

CHAPTER VII

The Soldier-State of Greece

ONCE upon a time, so Herodotus, the gossipy old Greek historian, tells us, there were twelve kings in Egypt, eleven of whom united to banish to the marshes the twelfth, Psammitichos by name, because they were jealous of him. Now Psammitichos (his real Egyptian name was Psamtek) consulted an oracle of the gods as to how he might best be revenged on the eleven; and the oracle told him that when brazen men came out of the sea he would find vengeance on his adversaries. And so it befell that while Psamtek was doubting in himself what this should mean, a pirate-ship was driven by stress of weather on the coast of Egypt, and certain Ionians and Karians, in bronze harness, landed from her, and began to plunder the land. And when news of these brazen men from the sea was brought to Psamtek, he knew that the word of the oracle had come to pass, and, taking these Ionians and Karians into his service, by their help he overcame his enemies, and made himself king of all the land of Egypt.

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