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+AN EGYPTIAN PRINCESS, Part 2.
+
+By Georg Ebers
+
+Volume 9.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XI.
+
+According to the law of Egypt, Zopyrus had deserved death.
+
+As soon as his friends heard this, they resolved to go to Sais and try to
+rescue him by stratagem.  Syloson, who had friends there and could speak
+the Egyptian language well, offered to help them.
+
+Bartja and Darius disguised themselves so completely by dyeing their hair
+and eyebrows and wearing broad-brimmed felt-hats,--that they could
+scarcely recognize each other.  Theopompus provided them with ordinary
+Greek dresses, and, an hour after Zopyrus' arrest, they met the
+splendidly-got-up Syloson on the shore of the Nile, entered a boat
+belonging to him and manned by his slaves, and, after a short sail,
+favored by the wind, reached Sais,--which lay above the waters of the
+inundation like an island,--before the burning midsummer sun had reached
+its noonday height.
+
+They disembarked at a remote part of the town and walked across the
+quarter appropriated to the artisans.  The workmen were busy at their
+calling, notwithstanding the intense noonday heat.  The baker's men were
+at work in the open court of the bakehouse, kneading bread--the coarser
+kind of dough with the feet, the finer with the hands.  Loaves of various
+shapes were being drawn out of the ovens-round and oval cakes, and rolls
+in the form of sheep, snails and hearts.  These were laid in baskets, and
+the nimble baker's boys would put three, four, or even five such baskets
+on their heads at once, and carry them off quickly and safely to the
+customers living in other quarters of the city.  A butcher was
+slaughtering an ox before his house, the creature's legs having been
+pinioned; and his men were busy sharpening their knives to cut up a wild
+goat.  Merry cobblers were calling out to the passers-by from their
+stalls; carpenters, tailors, joiners and weavers--were all there, busy at
+their various callings.  The wives of the work-people were going out
+marketing, leading their naked children by the hand, and some soldiers
+were loitering near a man who was offering beer and wine for sale.
+
+But our friends took very little notice of what was going on in the
+streets through which they passed; they followed Syloson in silence.
+
+At the Greek guard-house he asked them to wait for him.  Syloson,
+happening to know the Taxiarch who was on duty that day, went in and
+asked him if he had heard anything of a man accused of murder having been
+brought from Naukratis to Sais that morning.
+
+"Of course," said the Greek.  "It's not more than half an hour since he
+arrived.  As they found a purse full of money in his girdle, they think
+he must be a Persian spy.  I suppose you know that Cambyses is preparing
+for war with Egypt."
+
+"Impossible!"
+
+"No, no, it's a fact.  The prince-regent has already received
+information.  A caravan of Arabian merchants arrived yesterday at
+Pelusium, and brought the news."
+
+"It will prove as false as their suspicions about this poor young Lydian.
+I know him well, and am very sorry for the poor fellow.  He belongs to
+one of the richest families in Sardis, and only ran away for fear of the
+powerful satrap Oroetes, with whom he had had a quarrel.  I'll tell you
+the particulars when you come to see me next in Naukratis.  Of course
+you'll stay a few days and bring some friends.  My brother has sent me
+some wine which beats everything I ever tasted.  It's perfect nectar, and
+I confess I grudge offering it to any one who's not, like you, a perfect
+judge in such matters."  The Taxiarch's face brightened up at these
+words, and grasping Syloson's hand, he exclaimed.  "By the dog, my
+friend, we shall not wait to be asked twice; we'll come soon enough and
+take a good pull at your wine-skins.  How would it be if you were to ask
+Archidice, the three flower-sisters, and a few flute-playing-girls to
+supper?"
+
+     [Archidice--A celebrated Hetaira of Naukratis mentioned by Herod.
+     II.  135.  Flute-playing girls were seldom missing at the young
+     Greeks' drinking-parties]
+
+"They shall all be there.  By the bye, that reminds me that the flower-
+girls were the cause of that poor young Lydian's imprisonment.  Some
+jealous idiot attacked him before their house with a number of comrades.
+The hot-brained young fellow defended himself .  .  .  ."
+
+"And knocked the other down?"
+
+
+"Yes; and so that he'll never get up again."
+
+"The boy must be a good boxer."
+
+"He had a sword."
+
+"So much the better for him."
+
+"No, so much the worse; for his victim was an Egyptian."
+
+"That's a bad job.  I fear it can only have an unfortunate end.  A
+foreigner, who kills an Egyptian, is as sure of death as if he had the
+rope already round his neck.  However, just now he'll get a few days'
+grace; the priests are all so busy praying for the dying king that they
+have no time to try criminals."
+
+"I'd give a great deal to be able to save that poor fellow.  I know his
+father."
+
+"Yes, and then after all he only did his duty.  A man must defend
+himself."
+
+"Do you happen to know where he is imprisoned?"
+
+"Of course I do.  The great prison is under repair, and so he has been
+put for the present in the storehouse between the principal guard-house
+of the Egyptian body-guard and the sacred grove of the temple of Neith.
+I have only just come home from seeing them take him there."
+
+"He is strong and has plenty of courage; do you think he could get away,
+if we helped him?"
+
+"No, it would be quite impossible; he's in a room two stories high; the
+only window looks into the sacred grove, and that, you know, is
+surrounded by a ten-foot wall, and guarded like the treasury.  There are
+double sentries at every gate.  There's only one place where it is left
+unguarded during the inundation season, because, just here, the water
+washes the walls.  These worshippers of animals are as cautious as water-
+wagtails."
+
+"Well, it's  a great  pity, but I suppose we must leave the poor fellow
+to his fate.  Good-bye, Doemones; don't forget my invitation."
+
+The Samian left the guard-room and went back directly to the two friends,
+who were waiting impatiently for him.
+
+They listened eagerly to his tidings, and when he had finished his
+description of the prison, Darius exclaimed: "I believe a little courage
+will save him.  He's as nimble as a cat, and as strong as a bear.  I have
+thought of a plan."
+
+"Let us hear it," said Syloson, "and let me give an opinion as to its
+practicability."
+
+"We will buy some rope-ladders, some cord, and a good bow, put all these
+into our boat, and row to the unguarded part of the temple-wall at dusk.
+You must then help me to clamber over it.  I shall take the things over
+with me and give the eagle's cry.  Zopyras will know at once, because,
+since we were children, we have been accustomed to use it when we were
+riding or hunting together.  Then I shall shoot an arrow, with the cord
+fastened to it, up into his window, (I never miss), tell him to fasten a
+weight to it and let it down again to me.  I shall then secure the rope-
+ladder to the cord, Zopyrus will draw the whole affair up again, and hang
+it on an iron nail,--which, by the bye, I must not forget to send up with
+the ladder, for who knows whether he may have such a thing in his cell.
+He will then come down on it, go quickly with me to the part of the wall
+where you will be waiting with the boat, and where there must be another
+rope-ladder, spring into the boat, and there he is-safe!"
+
+"First-rate, first-rate!"  cried Bartja.
+
+"But very dangerous," added Syloson.  "If we are caught in the sacred
+grove, we are certain to be severely punished.  The priests hold strange
+nightly festivals there, at which every one but the initiated is strictly
+forbidden to appear.  I believe, however, that these take place on the
+lake, and that is at some distance from Zopyrus' prison."
+
+"So much the better," cried Darius; "but now to the main point.  We must
+send at once, and ask Theopompus to hire a fast trireme for us, and have
+it put in sailing order at once.  The news of Cambyses' preparations have
+already reached Egypt; they take us for spies, and will be sure not to
+let either Zopyrus or his deliverers escape, if they can help it.  It
+would be a criminal rashness to expose ourselves uselessly to danger.
+Bartja, you must take this message yourself, and must marry Sappho this
+very day, for, come what may, we must leave Naukratis to-morrow.  Don't
+contradict me, my friend, my brother!  You know our plan, and you must
+see that as only one can act in it, your part would be that of a mere
+looker-on.  As it was my own idea I am determined to carry it out myself.
+We shall meet again to-morrow, for Auramazda protects the friendship of
+the pure."
+
+It was a long time before they could persuade Bartja to leave his friends
+in the lurch, but their entreaties and representations at last took
+effect, and he went down towards the river to take a boat for Naukratis,
+Darius and Syloson going at the same time to buy the necessary implements
+for their plan.
+
+In order to reach the place where boats were to be hired, Bartja had to
+pass by the temple of Neith.  This was not easy, as an immense crowd was
+assembled at the entrance-gates.  He pushed his way as far as the
+obelisks near the great gate of the temple with its winged sun-disc and
+fluttering pennons, but there the temple-servants prevented him from
+going farther; they were keeping the avenue of sphinxes clear for a
+procession.  The gigantic doors of the Pylon opened, and Bartja, who, in
+spite of himself, had been pushed into the front row, saw a brilliant
+procession come out of the temple.  The unexpected sight of many faces he
+had formerly known occupied his attention so much, that he scarcely
+noticed the loss of his broad-brimmed hat, which had been knocked off in
+the crowd.  From the conversation of two Ionian mercenaries behind him he
+learnt that the family of Amasis had been to the temple to pray for the
+dying king.
+
+The procession was headed by richly-decorated priests, either wearing
+long white robes or pantherskins.  They were followed by men holding
+office at the court, and carrying golden staves, on the ends of which
+peacocks' feathers and silver lotus-flowers were fastened, and these by
+Pastophori, carrying on their shoulders a golden cow, the animal sacred
+to Isis.  When the crowd had bowed down before this sacred symbol, the
+queen appeared.  She was dressed in priestly robes and wore a costly
+head-dress with the winged disc and the Uraeus.  In her left hand she
+held a sacred golden sistrum,  the tones of which were to scare away
+Typhon, and in her right some lotus-flowers.  The wife, daughter and
+sister of the high-priest followed her, in similar but less splendid
+ornaments.  Then came the heir to the throne, in rich robes of state, as
+priest and prince; and behind him four young priests in white carrying
+Tachot, (the daughter of Amasis and Ladice and the pretended sister of
+Nitetis,) in an open litter.  The heat of the day, and the earnestness of
+her prayers, had given the sick girl a slight color.  Her blue eyes,
+filled with tears, were fixed on the sistrum which her weak, emaciated
+hands had hardly strength to hold.
+
+A murmur of compassion ran through the crowd; for they loved their dying
+king, and manifested openly and gladly the sympathy so usually felt for
+young lives from whom a brilliant future has been snatched by disease.
+Such was Amasis' young, fading daughter, who was now being carried past
+them, and many an eye grew dim as the beautiful invalid came in sight.
+Tachot seemed to notice this, for she raised her eyes from the sistrum
+and looked kindly and gratefully at the crowd.  Suddenly the color left
+her face, she turned deadly pale, and the golden sistrum fell on to the
+stone pavement with a clang, close to Bartja's feet.  He felt that he had
+been recognized and for one moment thought of hiding himself in the
+crowd; but only for one moment--his chivalrous feeling gained the day, he
+darted forward, picked up the sistrum, and forgetting the danger in which
+he was placing himself, held it out to the princess.
+
+Tachot looked at him earnestly before taking the golden sistrum from his
+hands, and then said, in a low voice, which only he could understand:
+"Are you Bartja?  Tell me, in your mother's name--are you Bartja?"
+
+"Yes, I am," was his answer, in a voice as low as her own, "your friend,
+Bartja."
+
+He could not say more, for the priests pushed him back among the crowd.
+When he was in his old place, he noticed that Tachot, whose bearers had
+begun to move on again, was looking round at him.  The color had come
+back into her cheeks, and her bright eyes were trying to meet his.  He
+did not avoid them; she threw him a lotus-bud-he stooped to pick it up,
+and then broke his way through the crowd, for this hasty act had roused
+their attention.
+
+A quarter of an hour later, he was seated in the boat which was to take
+him to Sappho and to his wedding.  He was quite at ease now about
+Zopyrus.  In Bartja's eyes his friend was already as good as saved, and
+in spite of the dangers which threatened himself, he felt strangely calm
+and happy, he could hardly say why.
+
+Meanwhile the sick princess had been carried home, had had her oppressive
+ornaments taken off, and her couch carried on to one of the palace-
+balconies where she liked best to pass the hot summer days, sheltered by
+broad-leaved plants, and a kind of awning.
+
+From this veranda, she could look down into the great fore-court of the
+palace, which was planted with trees.  To-day it was full of priests,
+courtiers, generals and governors of provinces.  Anxiety and suspense
+were expressed in every face: Amasis' last hour was drawing very near.
+
+Tachot could not be seen from below; but listening with feverish
+eagerness, she could hear much that was said.  Now that they had to dread
+the loss of their king, every one, even the priests, were full of his
+praises.  The wisdom and circumspection of his plans and modes of
+government, his unwearied industry, the moderation he had always shown,
+the keenness of his wit, were, each and all, subjects of admiration.
+"How Egypt has prospered under Amasis' government!" said a Nomarch.
+"And what glory he gained for our arms, by the conquest of Cyprus and the
+war with the Libyans!"  cried one of the generals.  "How magnificently he
+embellished our temples, and what great honors he paid to the goddess of
+Sais!"  exclaimed one of the singers of Neith.  "And then how gracious
+and condescending he was!"  murmured a courtier.  "How cleverly he
+managed to keep peace with the great powers!"  said the secretary of
+state, and the treasurer, wiping away a tear, cried: "How thoroughly he
+understood the management of the revenue!  Since the reign of Rameses
+III. the treasury has not been so well filled as now."  "Psamtik comes
+into a fine inheritance," lisped the courtier, and the soldier exclaimed,
+"Yes, but it's to be feared that he'll not spend it in a glorious war;
+he's too much under the influence of the priests."  "No, you are wrong
+there," answered the temple-singer.  "For some time past, our lord and
+master has seemed to disdain the advice of his most faithful servants."
+"The successor of such a father will find it difficult to secure
+universal approbation," said the Nomarch.  "It is not every one who has
+the intellect, the good fortune and the wisdom of Amasis."  "The gods
+know that!"  murmured the warrior with a sigh.
+
+Tachot's tears flowed fast.  These words were a confirmation of what they
+had been trying to hide from her: she was to lose her dear father soon.
+
+After she had made this dreadful certainty clear to her own mind, and
+discovered that it was in vain to beg her attendants to carry her to her
+dying father, she left off listening to the courtiers below, and began
+looking at the sistrum which Bartja himself had put into her hand, and
+which she had brought on to the balcony with her, as if seeking comfort
+there.  And she found what she sought; for it seemed to her as if the
+sound of its sacred rings bore her away into a smiling, sunny landscape.
+
+That faintness which so often comes over people in decline, had seized
+her and was sweetening her last hours with pleasant dreams.
+
+The female slaves, who stood round to fan away the flies, said afterwards
+that Tachot had never looked so lovely.
+
+She had lain about an hour in this state, when her breathing became more
+difficult, a slight cough made her breast heave, and the bright red blood
+trickled down from her lips on to her white robe.  She awoke, and looked
+surprised and disappointed on seeing the faces round her.  The sight of
+her mother, however, who came on to the veranda at that moment, brought a
+smile to her face, and she said, "O mother, I have had such a beautiful
+dream."
+
+"Then our visit to the temple has done my dear child good?"  asked the
+queen, trembling at the sight of the blood on the sick girl's lips.
+
+"Oh, yes, mother, so much! for I saw him again."  Ladice's glance at the
+attendants seemed to ask "Has your poor mistress lost her senses?"
+Tachot understood the look and said, evidently speaking with great
+difficulty: "You think I am wandering, mother.  No, indeed, I really saw
+and spoke to him.  He gave me my sistrum again, and said he was my
+friend, and then he took my lotus-bud and vanished.  Don't look so
+distressed and surprised, mother.  What I say is really true; it is no
+dream.--There, you hear, Tentrut saw him too.  He must have come to Sais
+for my sake, and so the child-oracle in the temple-court did not deceive
+me, after all.  And now I don't feel anything more of my illness; I
+dreamt I was lying in a field of blooming poppies, as red as the blood of
+the young lambs that are offered in sacrifice; Bartja was sitting by my
+side, and Nitetis was kneeling close to us and playing wonderful songs on
+a Nabla  made of ivory.  And there was such a lovely sound in the air
+that I felt as if Horus, the beautiful god of morning, spring, and the
+resurrection, was kissing me.  Yes, mother, I tell you he is coming soon,
+and when I am well, then--then--ah, mother what is this?  .  .  .  I am
+dying!"
+
+Ladice knelt down by her child's bed and pressed her lips in burning
+kisses on the girl's eyes as they grew dim in death.
+
+An hour later she was standing by another bedside--her dying husband's.
+
+Severe suffering had disfigured the king's features, the cold
+perspiration was standing on his forehead, and his hands grasped the
+golden lions on the arms of the deep-seated invalid chair in which he was
+resting, almost convulsively.
+
+When Ladice came in he opened his eyes; they were as keen and intelligent
+as if he had never lost his sight.
+
+"Why do not you bring Tachot to me?"  he asked in a dry voice.
+
+"She is too ill, and suffers so much, that .  .  ."
+
+"She is dead!  Then it is well with her, for death is not punishment; it
+is the end and aim of life,--the only end that we can attain without
+effort, but through sufferings!--the gods alone know how great.  Osiris
+has taken her to himself, for she was innocent.  And Nitetis is dead too.
+Where is Nebenchari's letter?"
+
+"Here is the place: 'She took her own life, and died calling down a heavy
+curse on thee and thine.  The poor, exiled, scorned and plundered oculist
+Nebenchari in Babylon sends thee this intelligence to Egypt.  It is as
+true as his own hatred of thee.'  Listen to these words, Psamtik, and
+remember how on his dying bed thy father told thee that, for every drachm
+of pleasure purchased on earth by wrong-doing, the dying bed will be
+burdened by a talent's weight of remorse.  Fearful misery is coming on
+Egypt for Nitetis' sake.  Cambyses is preparing to make war on us.  He
+will sweep down on Egypt like a scorching wind from the desert.  Much,
+which I have staked my nightly sleep and the very marrow of my existence
+to bring into existence, will be annihilated.  Still I have not lived in
+vain.  For forty years I have been the careful father and benefactor of a
+great nation.  Children and children's children will speak of Amasis as a
+great, wise and humane king; they will read my name on the great works
+which I have built in Sais and Thebes, and will praise the greatness of
+my power.  Neither shall I be condemned by Osiris and the forty-two
+judges of the nether world; the goddess of truth, who holds the balances,
+will find that my good deeds outweigh my bad."--Here the king sighed
+deeply and remained silent for some time.  Then, looking tenderly at his
+wife, he said: "Ladice, thou hast been a faithful, virtuous wife to me.
+For this I thank thee, and ask thy forgiveness for much.  We have often
+misunderstood one another.  Indeed it was easier for me to accustom
+myself to the Greek modes of thought, than for a Greek to understand our
+Egyptian ideas.  Thou know'st my love of Greek art,--thou know'st how I
+enjoyed the society of thy friend Pythagoras, who was thoroughly
+initiated in all that we believe and know, and adopted much from us.  He
+comprehended the deep wisdom which lies in the doctrines that I reverence
+most, and he took care not to speak lightly of truths which our priests
+are perhaps too careful to hide from the people; for though the many bow
+down before that which they cannot understand, they would be raised and
+upheld by those very truths, if explained to them.  To a Greek mind our
+worship of animals presents the greatest difficulty, but to my own the
+worship of the Creator in his creatures seems more just and more worthy
+of a human being, than the worship of his likeness in stone.  The Greek
+deities are moreover subject to every human infirmity; indeed I should
+have made my queen very unhappy by living in the same manner as her great
+god Zeus."
+
+At these words the king smiled, and then went on: "And what has given
+rise to this?  The Hellenic love of beauty in form, which, in the eye of
+a Greek, is superior to every thing else.  He cannot separate the body
+from the soul, because he holds it to be the most glorious of formed
+things, and indeed, believes that a beautiful spirit must necessarily
+inhabit a beautiful body.  Their gods, therefore, are only elevated human
+beings, but we adore an unseen power working in nature and in ourselves.
+The animal takes its place between ourselves and nature; its actions are
+guided, not, like our own, by the letter, but by the eternal laws of
+nature,  which owe their origin to the Deity, while the letter is a
+device of man's own mind.  And then, too, where amongst ourselves do we
+find so earnest a longing and endeavor to gain freedom, the highest good,
+as among the animals?  Where such a regular and well-balanced life from
+generation to generation, without instruction or precept?"
+
+Here the king's voice failed.  He was obliged to pause for a few moments,
+and then continued: "I know that my end is near; therefore enough of
+these matters.  My son and successor, hear my last wishes and act upon
+them; they are the result of experience.  But alas! how often have I
+seen, that rules of life given by one man to another are useless.  Every
+man must earn his own experience.  His own losses make him prudent, his
+own learning wise.  Thou, my son, art coming to the throne at a mature
+age; thou hast had time and opportunity to judge between right and wrong,
+to note what is beneficial and what hurtful, to see and compare many
+things.  I give thee, therefore, only a few wholesome counsels, and only
+fear that though I offer them with my right hand, thou wilt accept them
+with the left.
+
+"First, however, I must say that, notwithstanding my blindness, my
+indifference to what has been going on during the past months has been
+only apparent.  I left you to your own devices with a good intention.
+Rhodopis told me once one of her teacher AEsop's fables: 'A traveller,
+meeting a man on his road, asked him how long it would be before he
+reached the nearest town.'  'Go on, go on,' cried the other.  'But I want
+to know first when I shall get to the town.'  'Go on, only go on,' was
+the answer.  The traveller left him with angry words and abuse; but he
+had not gone many steps when the man called after him: 'You will be there
+in an hour.  I could not answer your question until I had seen your
+pace.'
+
+"I bore this fable in my mind for my son's sake, and watched in silence
+at what pace he was ruling his people.  Now I have discovered what I wish
+to know, and this is my advice: Examine into everything your self.  It is
+the duty of every man, but especially of a king, to acquaint himself
+intimately with all that concerns the weal or woe of his people.  You, my
+son, are in the habit of using the eyes and ears of other men instead of
+going to the fountain-head yourself.  I am sure that your advisers, the
+priests, only desire what is good; but .  .  .  Neithotep, I must beg you
+to leave us alone for a few moments."
+
+When the priest was gone the king exclaimed "They wish for what is good,
+but good only for themselves.  But we are not kings of priests and
+aristocrats only, we are kings of a nation!  Do not listen to the advice
+of this proud caste alone, but read every petition yourself, and, by
+appointing Nomarchs devoted to the king and beloved by the people, make
+yourself acquainted with the needs and wishes of the Egyptian nation.  It
+is not difficult to govern well, if you are aware of the state of feeling
+in your land.  Choose fit men to fill the offices of state.  I have taken
+care that the kingdom shall be properly divided.  The laws are good, and
+have proved themselves so; hold fast by these laws, and trust no one who
+sets himself above them; for law is invariably wiser than the individual
+man, and its transgressor deserves his punishment.  The people understand
+this well, and are ready to sacrifice themselves for us, when they see
+that we are ready to give up our own will to the law.  You do not care
+for the people.  I know their voice is often rude and rough, but it
+utters wholesome truths, and no one needs to hear truth more than a king.
+The Pharaoh who chooses priests and courtiers for his advisers, will hear
+plenty of flattering words, while he who tries to fulfil the wishes of
+the nation will have much to suffer from those around him; but the latter
+will feel peace in his own heart, and be praised in the ages to come.  I
+have often erred, yet the Egyptians will weep for me, as one who knew
+their needs and considered their welfare like a father.  A king who
+really knows his duties, finds it an easy and beautiful task to win the
+love of the people--an unthankful one to gain the applause of the great--
+almost an impossibility to content both.
+
+"Do not forget,--I say it again,--that kings and priests exist for the
+people, and not the people for their kings and priests.  Honor religion
+for its own sake and as the most important means of securing the
+obedience of the governed to their governors; but at the same time show
+its promulgators that you look on them, not as receptacles, but as
+servants, of the Deity.  Hold fast, as the law commands, by what is old;
+but never shut the gates of your kingdom against what is new, if better.
+Bad men break at once with the old traditions; fools only care for what
+is new and fresh; the narrowminded and the selfish privileged class cling
+indiscriminately to all that is old, and pronounce progress to be a sin;
+but the wise endeavor to retain all that has approved itself in the past,
+to remove all that has become defective, and to adopt whatever is good,
+from whatever source it may have sprung.  Act thus, my son.  The priests
+will try to keep you back--the Greeks to urge you forward.  Choose one
+party or the other, but beware of indecision--of yielding to the one
+to-day, to the other to-morrow.  Between two stools a man falls to the
+ground.  Let the one party be your friends, the other your enemies; by
+trying to please both, you will have both opposed to you.  Human beings
+hate the man who shows kindness to their enemies.  In the last few
+months, during which you have ruled independently, both parties have been
+offended by your miserable indecision.  The man who runs backwards and
+forwards like a child, makes no progress, and is soon weary.  I have till
+now--till I felt that death was near--always encouraged the Greeks and
+opposed the priests.  In the active business of life, the clever, brave
+Greeks seemed to me especially serviceable; at death, I want men who can
+make me out a pass into the nether regions.  The gods forgive me for not
+being able to resist words that sound so like a joke, even in my last
+hour!  They created me and must take me as I am.  I rubbed my hands for
+joy when I became king; with thee, my son, coming to the throne is a
+graver matter.--Now call Neithotep back; I have still something to say to
+you both."
+
+The king gave his hand to the high-priest as he entered, saving: "I leave
+you, Neithotep, without ill-will, though my opinion that you have been a
+better priest than a servant to your king, remains unaltered.  Psamtik
+will probably prove a more obedient follower than I have been, but one
+thing I wish to impress earnestly on you both: Do not dismiss the Greek
+mercenaries until the war with the Persians is over, and has ended
+we will hope--in victory for Egypt.  My former predictions are not worth
+anything now; when death draws near, we get depressed, and things begin
+to look a little black.  Without the auxiliary troops we shall be
+hopelessly lost, but with them victory is not impossible.  Be clever;
+show the Ionians that they are fighting on the Nile for the freedom of
+their own country--that Cambyses, if victorious, will not be contented
+with Egypt alone, while his defeat may bring freedom to their own
+enslaved countrymen in Ionia.  I know you agree with me, Neithotep, for
+in your heart you mean well to Egypt.--Now read me the prayers.  I feel
+exhausted; my end must be very near.  If I could only forget that poor
+Nitetis! had she the right to curse us?  May the judges of the dead-may
+Osiris--have mercy on our souls!  Sit down by me, Ladice; lay thy hand on
+my burning forehead.  And Psamtik, in presence of these witnesses, swear
+to honor and respect thy step-mother, as if thou wert her own child.  My
+poor wife!  Come and seek me soon before the throne of Osiris.  A widow
+and childless, what hast thou to do with this world?  We brought up
+Nitetis as our own daughter, and yet we are so heavily punished for her
+sake.  But her curse rests on us--and only on us;--not on thee, Psamtik,
+nor on thy children.  Bring my grandson.  Was that a tear?  Perhaps;
+well, the little things to which one has accustomed one's self are
+generally the hardest to give up."
+
+                    ......................
+
+Rhodopis entertained a fresh guest that evening; Kallias, the son of
+Phoenippus, the same who first appeared in our tale as the bearer of news
+from the Olympic games.
+
+The lively, cheerful Athenian had just come back from his native country,
+and, as an old and tried friend, was not only received by Rhodopis, but
+made acquainted with the secret of Sappho's marriage.
+
+Knakias, her old slave, had, it is true, taken in the flag which was the
+sign of reception, two days ago; but he knew that Kallias was always
+welcome to his mistress, and therefore admitted him just as readily as he
+refused every one else.
+
+The Athenian had plenty to tell, and when Rhodopis was called away on
+business, he took his favorite Sappho into the garden, joking and teasing
+her gaily as they looked out for her lover's coming.  But Bartja did not
+come, and Sappho began to be so anxious that Kallias called old Melitta,
+whose longing looks in the direction of Naukratis were, if possible, more
+anxious even than those of her mistress, and told her to fetch a musical
+instrument which he had brought with him.
+
+It was a rather large lute, made of gold and ivory, and as he handed it
+to Sappho, he said, with a smile: "The inventor of this glorious
+instrument, the divine Anakreon, had it made expressly for me, at my own
+wish.  He calls it a Barbiton, and brings wonderful tones from its
+chords--tones that must echo on even into the land of shadows.  I have
+told this poet, who offers his life as one great sacrifice to the Muses,
+Eros and Dionysus, a great deal about you, and he made me promise to
+bring you this song, which he wrote on purpose for you, as a gift from
+himself.
+
+"Now, what do you say to this song?  But by Hercules, child, how pale you
+are!  Have the verses affected you so much, or are you frightened at this
+likeness of your own longing heart?  Calm yourself, girl.  Who knows what
+may have happened to your lover?"
+
+"Nothing has happened,--nothing," cried a gay, manly voice, and in a few
+seconds Sappho was in the arms of him she loved.
+
+Kallias looked on quietly, smiling at the wonderful beauty of these two
+young lovers.
+
+"But now," said the prince, after Sappho had made him acquainted with
+Kallias, "I must go at once to your grandmother.  We dare not wait four
+days for our wedding.  It must be to-day!  There is danger in every hour
+of delay.  Is Theopompus here?"
+
+"I think he must be," said Sappho.  "I know of nothing else, that could
+keep my grandmother so long in the house.  But tell me, what is this
+about our marriage?  It seems to me .  .  ."
+
+"Let us go in first, love.  I fancy a thunder-storm must be coming on.
+The sky is so dark, and it's so intolerably sultry."
+
+"As you like, only make haste, unless you mean me to die of impatience.
+There is not the slightest reason to be afraid of a storm.  Since I was a
+child there has not been either lightning or thunder in Egypt at this
+time of year."
+
+"Then you will see something new to-day," said Kallias, laughing; for a
+large drop of rain has just fallen on my bald head, "the Nile-swallows
+were flying close to the water as I came here, and you see there is a
+cloud coming over the moon already.  Come in quickly, or you will get
+wet.  Ho, slave, see that a black lamb is offered to the gods of the
+lower world."
+
+They found Theopompus sitting in Rhodopis' own apartment, as Sappho had
+supposed.  He had finished telling her the story of Zopyrus' arrest, and
+of the journey which Bartja and his friends had taken on his behalf.
+
+Their anxiety on the matter was beginning to be so serious, that Bartja's
+unexpected appearance was a great relief.  His words flew as he repeated
+the events of the last few hours, and begged Theopompus to look out at
+once for a ship in sailing order, to convey himself and his friends from
+Egypt.
+
+"That suits famously," exclaimed Kallias.  "My own trireme brought me
+from Naukratis to-day; it is lying now, fully equipped for sea, in the
+port, and is quite at your service.  I have only to send orders to the
+steersman to keep the crew together and everything in sailing order.--You
+are under no obligations to me; on the contrary it is I who have to thank
+you for the honor you will confer on me.  Ho, Knakias!--tell my slave
+Philomelus, he's waiting in the hall,--to take a boat to the port, and
+order my steersman Nausarchus to keep the ship in readiness for starting.
+Give him this seal; it empowers him to do all that is necessary."
+
+"And my slaves?"  said Bartja.
+
+"Knakias can tell my old steward to take them to Kallias' ship," answered
+Theopompus.
+
+"And when they see this," said Bartja, giving the old servant his ring,
+"they will obey without a question."
+
+Knakias went away with many a deep obeisance, and the prince went on:
+"Now, my mother, I have a great petition to ask of you."
+
+"I guess what it is," said Rhodopis, with a smile.  "You wish your
+marriage to be hastened, and I see that I dare not oppose your wish."
+
+"If I'm not mistaken," said Kallias, "we have a remarkable case here.
+Two people are in great peril, and find that very peril a matter of
+rejoicing."
+
+"Perhaps you are right there," said Bartja, pressing Sappho's hand
+unperceived.  And then, turning to Rhodopis again, he begged her to delay
+no longer in trusting her dearest treasure to his care,--a treasure whose
+worth he knew so well.
+
+Rhodopis rose, she laid her right hand on Sappho's head and her left on
+Bartja's, and said: "There is a myth which tells of a blue lake in the
+land of roses; its waves are sometimes calm and gentle, but at others
+they rise into a stormy flood; the taste of its waters is partly sweet as
+honey, partly bitter as gall.  Ye will learn the meaning of this legend
+in the marriage-land of roses.  Ye will pass calm and stormy-sweet and
+bitter hours there.  So long as thou wert a child, Sappho, thy life
+passed on like a cloudless spring morning, but when thou becam'st a
+maiden, and hadst learnt to love, thine heart was opened to admit pain;
+and during the long months of separation pain was a frequent guest there.
+This guest will seek admission as long as life lasts.  Bartja, it will be
+your duty to keep this intruder away from Sappho, as far as it lies in
+your power.  I know the world.  I could perceive,--even before Croesus
+told me of your generous nature,--that you were worthy of my Sappho.
+This justified me in allowing you to eat the quince with her; this
+induces me now to entrust to you, without fear, what I have always looked
+upon as a sacred pledge committed to my keeping.  Look upon her too only
+as a loan.  Nothing is more dangerous to love, than a comfortable
+assurance of exclusive possession--I have been blamed for allowing such
+an inexperienced child to go forth into your distant country, where
+custom is so unfavorable to women; but I know what love is;--I know that
+a girl who loves, knows no home but the heart of her husband;--the woman
+whose heart has been touched by Eros no misfortune but that of separation
+from him whom she has chosen.  And besides, I would ask you, Kallias and
+Theopompus, is the position of your own wives so superior to that of the
+Persian women?  Are not the women of Ionia and Attica forced to pass
+their lives in their own apartments, thankful if they are allowed to
+cross the street accompanied by suspicious and distrustful slaves?  As to
+the custom which prevails in Persia of taking many wives, I have no fear
+either for Bartja or Sappho.  He will be more faithful to his wife than
+are many Greeks, for he will find in her what you are obliged to seek, on
+the one hand in marriage, on the other in the houses of the cultivated
+Hetaere:--in the former, housewives and mothers, in the latter, animated
+and enlivening intellectual society.  Take her, my son.  I give her to
+you as an old warrior gives his sword, his best possession, to his
+stalwart son:--he gives it gladly and with confidence.  Whithersoever she
+may go she will always remain a Greek, and it comforts me to think that
+in her new home she will bring honor to the Greek name and friends to our
+nation, Child, I thank thee for those tears.  I can command my own, but
+fate has made me pay an immeasurable price for the power of doing so.
+The gods have heard your oath, my noble Bartja.  Never forget it, but
+take her as your own, your friend, your wife.  Take her away as soon as
+your friends return; it is not the will of the gods that the Hymenaeus
+should be sung at Sappho's nuptial rites."
+
+As she said these words she laid Sappho's hand in Bartja's, embraced her
+with passionate tenderness, and breathed a light kiss on the forehead of
+the young Persian.  Then turning to her Greek friends, who stood by, much
+affected:
+
+"That was a quiet nuptial ceremony," she said; "no songs, no torch-light!
+May their union be so much the happier.  Melitta, bring the bride's
+marriage-ornaments, the bracelets and necklaces which lie in the bronze
+casket on my dressing-table, that our darling may give her hand to her
+lord attired as beseems a future princess."
+
+"Yes, and do not linger on the way," cried Kallias, whose old
+cheerfulness had now returned.  "Neither can we allow the niece of the
+greatest of Hymen's poets to be married without the sound of song and
+music.  The young husband's house is, to be sure, too far off for our
+purpose, so we will suppose that the andronitis is his dwelling.
+
+     [The Hymenaeus was the wedding-song, so called because of its
+     refrain "Hymen O!  Hymenae' O!"  The god of marriage, Hymen, took
+     his origin and name from the hymn, was afterwards decked out richly
+     with myths, and finally, according to Catullus, received a seat on
+     Mount Helikon with the Muses.]
+
+     [A Greek bride was beautifully adorned for her marriage, and her
+     bridesmaids received holiday garments.  Homer, Odyss.  VI.  27.
+     Besides which, after the bath, which both bride and bridegroom were
+     obliged to take, she was anointed with sweet-smelling essences.
+     Thucyd. II. 15.  Xenoph.  Symp. II. 3.]
+
+"We will conduct the maiden thither by the centre door, and there we will
+enjoy a merry wedding-feast by the family hearth.  Here, slavegirls, come
+and form yourselves into two choruses.  Half of your number take the part
+of the youths; the other half that of the maidens, and sing us Sappho's
+Hymenaeus.  I will be the torch-bearer; that dignity is mine by right.
+You must know, Bartja, that my family has an hereditary right to carry
+the torches at the Eleusinian mysteries and we are therefore called
+Daduchi or torch-bearers.  Ho, slave!  see that the door of the
+andronitis is hung with flowers, and tell your comrades to meet us with a
+shower of sweetmeats as we enter.  That's right, Melitta; why, how did
+you manage to get those lovely violet and myrtle marriage-crowns made so
+quickly?  The rain is streaming through the opening above.  You see,
+Hymen has persuaded Zeus to help him; so that not a single marriage-rite
+shall be omitted.  You could not take the bath, which ancient custom
+prescribes for the bride and bridegroom on the morning of their wedding-
+day, so you have only to stand here a moment and take the rain of Zeus as
+an equivalent for the waters of the sacred spring.  Now, girls, begin
+your song.  Let the maidens bewail the rosy days of childhood, and the
+youths praise the lot of those who marry young."
+
+Five well-practised treble voices now began to sing the chorus of virgins
+in a sad and plaintive tone.
+
+Suddenly the song was hushed, for a flash of lightning had shone down
+through the aperture beneath which Kallias had stationed the bride and
+bridegroom, followed by a loud peal of thunder.  "See!"  cried the
+Daduchus, raising his hand to heaven, "Zeus himself has taken the
+nuptial-torch, and sings the Hymenaeus for his favorites."
+
+At dawn the next morning, Sappho and Bartja left the house and went into
+the garden.  After the violent storm which had raged all night, the
+garden was looking as fresh and cheerful in the morning light as the
+faces of the newly-married pair.
+
+Bartja's anxiety for his friends, whom he had almost forgotten in the
+excitement of his marriage, had roused them so early.
+
+The garden had been laid out on an artificial hill, which overlooked the
+inundated plain.  Blue and white lotus-blossoms floated on the smooth
+surface of the water, and vast numbers of water-birds hovered along the
+shores or over the flood.  Flocks of white, herons appeared on the banks,
+their plumage gleaming like glaciers on distant mountain peaks; a
+solitary eagle circled upward on its broad pinions through the pure
+morning air, turtle-doves nestled in the tops of the palm-trees; pelicans
+and ducks fluttered screaming away, whenever a gay sail appeared.  The
+air had been cooled by the storm, a fresh north-wind was blowing, and,
+notwithstanding the early hour, there were a number of boats sailing over
+the deluged fields before the breeze.  The songs of the rowers, the
+plashing strokes of their oars and the cries of the birds, all
+contributed to enliven the watery landscape of the Nile valley, which,
+though varied in color, was somewhat monotonous.
+
+Bartja and Sappho stood leaning on each other by the low wall which ran
+round Rhodopis' garden, exchanging tender words and watching the scene
+below, till at last Bartja's quick eye caught sight of a boat making
+straight for the house and coming on fast by the help of the breeze and
+powerful rowers.
+
+A few minutes later the boat put in to shore and Zopyrus with his
+deliverers stood before them.
+
+Darius's plan had succeeded perfectly, thanks to the storm, which, by its
+violence and the unusual time of its appearance, had scared the
+Egyptians; but still there was no time to be lost, as it might reasonably
+be supposed that the men of Sais would pursue their fugitive with all the
+means at their command.
+
+Sappho, therefore, had to take a short farewell of her grandmother, all
+the more tender, however, for its shortness,--and then, led by Rartja and
+followed by old Melitta, who was to accompany her to Persia, she went on
+board Syloson's boat.  After an hour's sail they reached a beautifully-
+built and fast-sailing vessel, the Hygieia, which belonged to Kallias.
+
+He was waiting for them on board his trireme.  The leave-taking between
+himself and his young friends was especially affectionate.  Bartja hung a
+heavy and costly gold chain round the neck of the old man in token of his
+gratitude, while Syloson, in remembrance of the dangers they had shared
+together, threw his purple cloak over Darius' shoulders.  It was a
+master-specimen of Tynan dye, and had taken the latter's fancy.  Darius
+accepted the gift with pleasure, and said, as he took leave: "You must
+never forget that I am indebted to you, my Greek friend, and as soon as
+possible give me an opportunity of doing you service in return."
+
+"You ought to come to me first, though," exclaimed Zopyrus, embracing his
+deliverer.  "I am perfectly ready to share my last gold piece with you;
+or what is more, if it would do you a service, to sit a whole week in
+that infernal hole from which you saved me.  Ah! they're weighing anchor.
+Farewell, you brave Greek.  Remember me to the flower-sisters, especially
+to the pretty, little Stephanion, and tell her her long-legged lover
+won't be able to plague her again for some time to come at least.  And
+then, one more thing; take this purse of gold for the wife and children
+of that impertinent fellow, whom I struck too hard in the heat of the
+fray."
+
+The anchors fell rattling on to the deck, the wind filled the sails, the
+Trieraules--[Flute-player to a trireme]--took his flute and set the
+measure of the monotonous Keleusma or rowing-song, which echoed again
+from the hold of the vessel.  The beak of the ship bearing the statue of
+Hygieia, carved in wood, began to move.  Bartja and Sappho stood at the
+helm and gazed towards Naukratis, until the shores of the Nile vanished
+and the green waves of the Hellenic sea splashed their foam over the deck
+of the trireme.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XII.
+
+Our young bride and bridegroom had not travelled farther than Ephesus,
+when the news reached them that Amasis was dead.  From Ephesus they went
+to Babylon, and thence to Pasargadae, which Kassandane, Atossa and
+Croesus had made their temporary residence.  Kassandane was to accompany
+the army to Egypt, and wished, now that Nebenchari had restored her
+sight, to see the monument which had lately been built to her great
+husband's memory after Croesus' design, before leaving for so long a
+journey.  She rejoiced in finding it worthy of the great Cyrus, and spent
+hours every day in the beautiful gardens which had been laid out round
+the mausoleum.
+
+It consisted of a gigantic sarcophagus made of solid marble blocks, and
+resting like a house on a substructure composed of six high marble steps.
+The interior was fitted up like a room, and contained, beside the golden
+coffin in which were preserved such few remains of Cyrus as had been
+spared by the dogs, vultures, and elements, a silver bed and a table of
+the same metal, on which were golden drinking-cups and numerous garments
+ornamented with the rarest and most costly jewels.
+
+The building was forty feet high.  The shady paradises--[Persian
+pleasure-gardens]--and colonnades by which it was surrounded had been
+planned by Croesus, and in the midst of the sacred grove was a dwelling-
+house for the Magi appointed to watch over the tomb.
+
+The palace of Cyrus could be seen in the distance--a palace in which he
+had appointed that the future kings of Persia should pass at least some
+months of every year.  It was a splendid building in the style of a
+fortress, and so inaccessibly placed that it had been fixed on as the
+royal treasure-house.
+
+Here, in the fresh mountain air of a place dedicated to the memory of the
+husband she had loved so much, Kassandane felt well and at peace; she was
+glad too to see that Atossa was recovering the old cheerfulness, which
+she had so sadly lost since the death of Nitetis and the departure of
+Darius.  Sappho soon became the friend of her new mother and sister, and
+all three felt very loath to leave the lovely Pasargadm.
+
+Darius and Zopyrus had remained with the army which was assembling in the
+plains of the Euphrates, and Bartja too had to return thither before the
+march began.
+
+Cambyses went out to meet his family on their return; he was much
+impressed with Sappho's great beauty, but she confessed to her husband
+that his brother only inspired her with fear.
+
+The king had altered very much in the last few months.  His formerly pale
+and almost noble features were reddened and disfigured by the quantities
+of wine he was in the habit of drinking.  In his dark eyes there was the
+old fire still, but dimmed and polluted.  His hair and beard, formerly so
+luxuriant, and black as the raven's wing, hung down grey and disordered
+over his face and chin, and the proud smile which used so to improve his
+features had given way to an expression of contemptuous annoyance and
+harsh severity.
+
+Sometimes he laughed,--loudly, immoderately and coarsely; but this was
+only when intoxicated, a condition which had long ceased to be unusual
+with him.
+
+He continued to retain an aversion to his wives; so much so that the
+royal harem was to be left behind in Susa, though all his court took
+their favorite wives and concubines with them on the campaign.  Still no
+one could complain that the king was ever guilty of injustice; indeed he
+insisted more eagerly now than before on the rigid execution of the law;
+and wherever he detected an abuse his punishments were cruel and
+inexorable.  Hearing that a judge, named Sisamnes, had been bribed to
+pronounce an unjust sentence, he condemned the wretched man to be flayed,
+ordered the seat of justice to be covered with his skin, appointed the
+son to the father's vacant place and compelled him to occupy this fearful
+seat.--[Herodot.  V.  25.]--Cambyses was untiring as commander of the
+forces, and superintended the drilling of the troops assembled near
+Babylon with the greatest rigor and circumspection.
+
+The hosts were to march after the festival of the New Year, which
+Cambyses celebrated this time with immense expense and profusion.  The
+ceremony over, he betook himself to the army.  Bartja was there.  He came
+up to his brother, beaming with joy, kissed the hem of his robe, and told
+him in a tone of triumph that he hoped to become a father.  The king
+trembled as he heard the words, vouchsafed his brother no answer, drank
+himself into unconsciousness that evening, and the next morning called
+the soothsayers, Magi and Chaldaeans together, in order to submit a
+question to them.  "Shall I be committing a sin against the gods, if I
+take my sister to wife and thus verify the promise of the dream, which ye
+formerly interpreted to mean that Atossa should bear a future king to
+this realm?"
+
+The Magi consulted a short time together.  Then Oropastes cast himself at
+the king's feet and said, "We do not believe, O King, that this marriage
+would be a sin against the gods; inasmuch as, first: it is a custom among
+the Persians to marry with their own kin; and secondly, though it be not
+written in the law that the pure man may marry his sister, it is written
+that the king may do what seemeth good in his own eyes.  That which
+pleaseth thee is therefore always lawful."
+
+Cambyses sent the Magi away with rich gifts, gave Oropastes full powers
+as regent of the kingdom in his absence, and soon after told his
+horrified mother that, as soon as the conquest of Egypt and the
+punishment of the son of Amasis should have been achieved, he intended to
+marry his sister Atossa.
+
+At length the immense host, numbering more than 800,000 fighting men,
+departed in separate divisions, and reached the Syrian desert in two
+months.  Here they were met by the Arabian tribes whom Phanes had
+propitiated--the Amalekites and Geshurites--bringing camels and horses
+laden with water for the host.
+
+At Accho, in the land of the Canaanites, the fleets of the Syrians,
+Phoenicians and Ionians belonging to Persia, and the auxiliary ships from
+Cyprus and Samos, won by the efforts of Phanes, were assembled.  The case
+of the Samian fleet was a remarkable one.  Polykrates saw in Cambyses'
+proposal a favorable opportunity of getting rid of all the citizens who
+were discontented with his government, manned forty triremes with eight
+thousand malcontent Samians, and sent them to the Persians with the
+request that not one might be allowed to return home.--[Herod. III. 44.]
+
+As soon as Phanes heard this he warned the doomed men, who at once,
+instead of sailing to join the Persian forces, returned to Samos and
+attempted to overthrow Polykrates.  They were defeated, however, on land,
+and escaped to Sparta to ask help against the tyrant.
+
+A full month before the time of the inundation, the Persian and Egyptian
+armies were standing face to face near Pelusium on the north-east coast
+of the Delta.
+
+Phanes' arrangements had proved excellent.  The Arabian tribes had kept
+faith so well that the journey through the desert, which would usually
+have cost thousands of lives, had been attended with very little loss,
+and the time of year had been so well chosen that the Persian troops
+reached Egypt by dry roads and without inconvenience.
+
+The king met his Greek friend with every mark of distinction, and
+returned a friendly nod when Phanes said: "I hear that you have been less
+cheerful than usual since the death of your beautiful bride.  A woman's
+grief passes in stormy and violent complaint, but the sterner character
+of a man cannot so soon be comforted.  I know what you feel, for I have
+lost my dearest too.  Let us both praise the gods for granting us the
+best remedy for our grief--war and revenge."  Phanes accompanied the king
+to an inspection of the troops and to the evening revel.  It was
+marvellous to see the influence he exercised over this fierce spirit, and
+how calm--nay even cheerful--Cambyses became, when the Athenian was near.
+
+The Egyptian army was by no means contemptible, even when compared with
+the immense Persian hosts.  Its position was covered on the right by the
+walls of Pelusium, a frontier fortress designed by the Egyptian kings as
+a defence against incursions from the east.  The Persians were assured by
+deserters that the Egyptian army numbered altogether nearly six hundred
+thousand men.  Beside a great number of chariots of war, thirty thousand
+Karian and Ionian mercenaries, and the corps of the Mazai, two hundred
+and fifty thousand Kalasirians, one hundred and sixty thousand
+Hermotybians, twenty thousand horsemen, and auxiliary troops, amounting
+to more than fifty thousand, were assembled under Psamtik's banner;
+amongst these last the Libyan Maschawascha were remarkable for their
+military deeds, and the Ethiopians for their numerical superiority.
+
+The infantry were divided into regiments and companies, under different
+standards, and variously equipped.
+
+     [In these and the descriptions immediately following, we have drawn
+     our information, either from the drawings made from Egyptian
+     monuments in Champollion, Wilkinson, Rosellini and Lepsius, or from
+     the monuments themselves.  There is a dagger in the Berlin Museum,
+     the blade of which is of bronze, the hilt of ivory and the sheath of
+     leather.  Large swords are only to be seen in the hands of the
+     foreign auxiliaries, but the native Egyptians are armed with small
+     ones, like daggers.  The largest one of which we have any knowledge
+     is in the possession of Herr E.  Brugsch at Cairo.  It is more than
+     two feet long.]
+
+The heavy-armed soldiers carried large shields, lances, and daggers; the
+swordsmen and those who fought with battle-axes had smaller shields and
+light clubs; beside these, there were slingers, but the main body of the
+army was composed of archers, whose bows unbent were nearly the height of
+a man.  The only clothing of the horse-soldiers was the apron, and their
+weapon a light club in the form of a mace or battle-axe.  Those warriors,
+on the contrary, who fought in chariots belonged to the highest rank of
+the military caste, spent large sums on the decoration of their two-
+wheeled chariots and the harness of their magnificent horses, and went to
+battle in their most costly ornaments.  They were armed with bows and
+lances, and a charioteer stood beside each, so that their undivided
+attention could be bestowed upon the battle.
+
+The Persian foot was not much more numerous than the Egyptian, but they
+had six times the number of horse-soldiers.
+
+As soon as the armies stood face to face, Cambyses caused the great
+Pelusian plain to be cleared of trees and brushwood, and had the sand-
+hills removed which were to be found here and there, in order to give his
+cavalry and scythe-chariots a fair field of action.  Phanes' knowledge of
+the country was of great use.  He had drawn up a plan of action with
+great military skill, and succeeded in gaining not only Cambyses'
+approval, but that of the old general Megabyzus and the best tacticians
+among the Achaemenidae.  His local knowledge was especially valuable on
+account of the marshes which intersected the Pelusian plain, and might,
+unless carefully avoided, have proved fatal to the Persian enterprise.
+At the close of the council of war Phanes begged to be heard once more:
+"Now, at length," he said, "I am at liberty to satisfy your curiosity in
+reference to the closed waggons full of animals, which I have had
+transported hither.  They contain five thousand cats!  Yes, you may
+laugh, but I tell you these creatures will be more serviceable to us than
+a hundred thousand of our best soldiers.  Many of you are aware that the
+Egyptians have a superstition which leads them rather to die than kill a
+cat,  I, myself, nearly paid for such a murder once with my life.
+Remembering this, I have been making a diligent search for cats during my
+late journey; in Cyprus, where there are splendid specimens, in Samos
+and in Crete.  All I could get I ordered to be caught, and now propose
+that they be distributed among those troops who will be opposed to the
+native Egyptian soldiers.  Every man must be told to fasten one firmly to
+his shield and hold it out as he advances towards the enemy.  I will
+wager that there's not one real Egyptian, who would not rather fly from
+the battle-field than take aim at one of these sacred animals."
+
+This speech was met by a loud burst of laughter; on being discussed,
+however, it was approved of, and ordered to be carried out at once.  The
+ingenious Greek was honored by receiving the king's hand to kiss, his
+expenses were reimbursed by a magnificent present, and he was urged to
+take a daughter of some noble Persian family in marriage.
+
+     [Themistocles too, on coming to the Persian court, received a high-
+     born Persian wife in marriage.  Diod. XI. 57.]
+
+The king concluded by inviting him to supper, but this the Athenian
+declined, on the plea that he must review the Ionian troops, with whom he
+was as yet but little acquainted, and withdrew.
+
+At the door of his tent he found his slaves disputing with a ragged,
+dirty and unshaven old man, who insisted on speaking with their master.
+Fancying he must be a beggar, Phanes threw him a piece of gold; the old
+man did not even stoop to pick it up, but, holding the Athenian fast by
+his cloak, cried, "I am Aristomachus the Spartan!"
+
+Cruelly as he was altered, Phanes recognized his old friend at once,
+ordered his feet to be washed and his head anointed, gave him wine and
+meat to revive his strength, took his rags off and laid a new chiton over
+his emaciated, but still sinewy, frame.
+
+Aristomachus received all in silence; and when the food and wine had
+given him strength to speak, began the following answer to Phanes' eager
+questions.
+
+On the murder of Phanes' son by Psamtik, he had declared his intention of
+leaving Egypt and inducing the troops under his command to do the same,
+unless his friend's little daughter were at once set free, and a
+satisfactory explanation given for the sudden disappearance of the boy.
+Psamtik promised to consider the matter.  Two days later, as Aristomachus
+was going up the Nile by night to Memphis, he was seized by Egyptian
+soldiers, bound and thrown into the dark hold of a boat, which, after a
+voyage of many days and nights, cast anchor on a totally unknown shore.
+The prisoners were taken out of their dungeon and led across a desert
+under the burning sun, and past rocks of strange forms, until they
+reached a range of mountains with a colony of huts at its base.  These
+huts were inhabited by human beings, who, with chains on their feet, were
+driven every morning into the shaft of a mine and there compelled to hew
+grains of gold out of the stony rock.  Many of these miserable men had
+passed forty years in this place, but most died soon, overcome by the
+hard work and the fearful extremes of heat and cold to which they were
+exposed on entering and leaving the mine.
+
+     [Diodorus (III. 12.) describes the compulsory work in the gold mines
+     with great minuteness.  The convicts were either prisoners taken in
+     war, or people whom despotism in its blind fury found it expedient
+     to put out of the way.  The mines lay in the plain of Koptos, not
+     far from the Red Sea.  Traces of them have been discovered in modern
+     times.  Interesting inscriptions of the time of Rameses the Great,
+     (14 centuries B. C.) referring to the gold-mines, have been found,
+     one at Radesich, the other at Kubnn, and have been published and
+     deciphered in Europe.]
+
+"My companions," continued Aristomachus, "were either condemned murderers
+to whom mercy had been granted, or men guilty of high treason whose
+tongues had been cut out, and others such as myself whom the king had
+reason to fear.  Three months I worked among this set, submitting to the
+strokes of the overseer, fainting under the fearful heat, and stiffening
+under the cold dews of night.  I felt as if picked out for death and only
+kept alive by the hope of vengeance.  It happened, however, by the mercy
+of the gods, that at the feast of Pacht, our guards, as is the custom of
+the Egyptians, drank so freely as to fall into a deep sleep, during which
+I and a young Jew who had been deprived of his right hand for having used
+false weights in trade, managed to escape unperceived; Zeus Lacedaemonius
+and the great God whom this young man worshipped helped us in our need,
+and, though we often heard the voices of our pursuers, they never
+succeeded in capturing us.  I had taken a bow from one of our guards;
+with this we obtained food, and when no game was to be found we lived on
+roots, fruits and birds' eggs.  The sun and stars showed us our road.  We
+knew that the gold-mines were not far from the Red Sea and lay to the
+south of Memphis.  It was not long before we reached the coast; and then,
+pressing onwards in a northerly direction, we fell in with some friendly
+mariners, who took care of us until we were taken up by an Arabian boat.
+The young Jew understood the language spoken by the crew, and in their
+care we came to Eziongeber in the land of Edom.  There we heard that
+Cambyses was coming with an immense army against Egypt, and travelled as
+far as Harma under the protection of an Amalekite caravan bringing water
+to the Persian army.  From thence I went on to Pelusium in the company of
+some stragglers from the Asiatic army, who now and then allowed me a seat
+on their horses, and here I heard that you had accepted a high command in
+Cambyses' army.  I have kept my vow, I have been true to my nation in
+Egypt; now it is your turn to help old Aristomachus in gaining the only
+thing he still cares for--revenge on his persecutors."
+
+"And that you shall have!"  cried Phanes, grasping the old man's hand.
+"You shall have the command of the heavy-armed Milesian troops, and
+liberty to commit what carnage you like among the ranks of our enemies.
+This, however, is only paying half the debt I owe you.  Praised be the
+gods, who have put it in my power to make you happy by one single
+sentence.  Know then, Aristomachus, that, only a few days after your
+disappearance, a ship arrived in the harbor of Naukratis from Sparta.
+It was guided by your own noble son and expressly sent by the Ephori in
+your honor--to bring the father of two Olympic victors back to his native
+land."
+
+The old man's limbs trembled visibly at these words, his eyes filled with
+tears and he murmured a prayer.  Then smiting his forehead, he cried in a
+voice trembling with feeling: "Now it is fulfilled! now it has become a
+fact!  If I doubted the words of thy priestess, O Phoebus Apollo! pardon
+my sin!  What was the promise of the oracle?
+
+     "If once the warrior hosts from the snow-topped mountains
+     descending,
+     Come to the fields of the stream watering richly the plain,
+     Then shall the lingering boat to the beckoning meadows convey thee,
+     Which to the wandering foot peace and a home can afford.
+     When those warriors come, from the snow-topped mountains descending,
+     Then will the powerful Five grant thee what long they refused."
+
+"The promise of the god is fulfilled.  Now I may return home, and I will;
+but first I raise my hands to Dice, the unchanging goddess of justice,
+and implore her not to deny me the pleasure of revenge."
+
+"The day of vengeance will dawn to-morrow," said Phanes, joining in the
+old man's prayer.  "Tomorrow I shall slaughter the victims for the dead--
+for my son--and will take no rest until Cambyses has pierced the heart of
+Egypt with the arrows which I have cut for him.  Come, my friend, let me
+take you to the king.  One man like you can put a whole troop of
+Egyptians to flight."
+
+                    .......................
+
+It was night.  The Persian soldiers, their position being unfortified,
+were in order of battle, ready to meet any unexpected attack.  The foot-
+soldiers stood leaning on their shields, the horsemen held their horses
+saddled and bridled near the camp-fires.  Cambyses was riding through the
+ranks, encouraging his troops by words and looks.  Only one part of the
+army was not yet ranged in order of battle--the centre.  It was composed
+of the Persian body-guard, the apple-bearers, Immortals, and the king's
+own relatives, who were always led into battle by the king in person.
+
+The Ionian Greeks too had gone to rest, at Phanes' command.  He wanted to
+keep his men fresh, and allowed them to sleep in their armor, while he
+kept watch.  Aristomachus was welcomed with shouts of joy by the Greeks,
+and kindly by Cambyses, who assigned him, at the head of one half the
+Greek troops, a place to the left of the centre attack, while Phanes,
+with the other half, had his place at the right.  The king himself was to
+take the lead at the head of the ten thousand Immortals, preceded by the
+blue, red and  gold  imperial  banner and  the  standard  of Kawe.
+Bartja was to lead the regiment of mounted guards numbering a thousand
+men, and that division of the cavalry which was entirely clothed in mail.
+
+Croesus commanded a body of troops whose duty it was to guard the camp
+with its immense treasures, the wives of Cambyses' nobles, and his own
+mother and sister.
+
+At last Mithras appeared and shed his light upon the earth; the spirits
+of the night retired to their dens, and the Magi stirred up the sacred
+fire which had been carried before the army the whole way from Babylon,
+until it became a gigantic flame.  They and the king united in feeding it
+with costly perfumes, Cambyses offered the sacrifice, and, holding the
+while a golden bowl high in the air, besought the gods to grant him
+victory and glory.  He then gave the password, "Auramazda, the helper and
+guide," and placed himself at the head of his guards, who went into the
+battle with wreaths on their tiaras.  The Greeks offered their own
+sacrifices, and shouted with delight on hearing that the omens were
+auspicious.  Their war-cry was "Hebe."
+
+Meanwhile the Egyptian priests had begun their day also with prayer and
+sacrifice, and had then placed their army in order of battle.
+
+Psamtik, now King of Egypt, led the centre.  He was mounted on a golden
+chariot; the trappings of his horses were of gold and purple, and plumes
+of ostrich feathers nodded on their proud heads.  He wore the double
+crown of Upper and Lower Egypt, and the charioteer who stood at his left
+hand holding the reins and whip, was descended from one of the noblest
+Egyptian families.
+
+The Hellenic and Karian mercenaries were to fight at the left of the
+centre, the horse at the extreme of each wing, and the Egyptian and
+Ethiopian foot were stationed, six ranks deep, on the right and left of
+the armed chariots, and Greek mercenaries.
+
+Psamtik drove through the ranks of his army, giving encouraging and
+friendly words to all the men.  He drew up before the Greek division, and
+addressed them thus: "Heroes of Cyprus and Libya! your deeds in arms are
+well known to me, and I rejoice in the thought of sharing your glory to-
+day and crowning you with fresh laurels.  Ye have no need to fear, that
+in the day of victory I shall curtail your liberties.  Malicious tongues
+have whispered that this is all ye have to expect from me; but I tell
+you, that if we conquer, fresh favors will be shown to you and your
+descendants; I shall call you the supporters of my throne.  Ye are
+fighting to-day, not for me alone, but for the freedom of your own
+distant homes.  It is easy to perceive that Cambyses, once lord of Egypt,
+will stretch out his rapacious hand over your beautiful Hellas and its
+islands.  I need only remind you, that they be between Egypt and your
+Asiatic brethren who are already groaning under the Persian yoke.  Your
+acclamations prove that ye agree with me already, but I must ask for a
+still longer hearing.  It is my duty to tell you who has sold, not only
+Egypt, but his own country to the King of Persia, in return for immense
+treasures.  The man's name is Phanes!  You are angry and inclined to
+doubt?  I swear to you, that this very Phanes has accepted Cambyses' gold
+and promised not only to be his guide to Egypt, but to open the gates of
+your own Greek cities to him.  He knows the country and the people, and
+can be bribed to every perfidy.  Look at him! there he is, walking by the
+side of the king.  See how he bows before him!  I thought I had heard
+once, that the Greeks only prostrated themselves before their gods.  But
+of course, when a man sells his country, he ceases to be its citizen.  Am
+I not right?  Ye scorn to call so base a creature by the name of
+countryman?  Yes?  then I will deliver the wretch's daughter into your
+hands.  Do what ye will with the child of such a villain.  Crown her with
+wreaths of roses, fall down before her, if it please you, but do not
+forget that she belongs to a man who has disgraced the name of Hellene,
+and has betrayed his countrymen and country!"
+
+As he finished speaking the men raised a wild cry of rage and took
+possession of the trembling child.  A soldier held her up, so that her
+father--the troops not being more than a bow-shot apart--could see all
+that happened.  At the same moment an Egyptian, who afterwards earned
+celebrity through the loudness of his voice, cried: "Look here, Athenian!
+see how treachery and corruption are rewarded in this country!"  A bowl
+of wine stood near, provided by the king, from which the soldiers had
+just been drinking themselves into intoxication.  A Karian seized it,
+plunged his sword into the innocent child's breast, and let the blood
+flow into the bowl; filled a goblet with the awful mixture, and drained
+it, as if drinking to the health of the wretched father.  Phanes stood
+watching the scene, as if struck into a statue of cold stone.  The rest
+of the soldiers then fell upon the bowl like madmen, and wild beasts
+could not have lapped up the foul drink with greater eagerness.--
+[Herodotus tells this fearful tale (III. ii.)]
+
+In the same moment Psamtik triumphantly shot off his first arrow into the
+Persian ranks.
+
+The mercenaries flung the child's dead body on to the ground; drunk with
+her blood, they raised their battle-song, and rushed into the strife far
+ahead of their Egyptian comrades.
+
+But now the Persian ranks began to move.  Phanes, furious with pain and
+rage, led on his heavy-armed troops, indignant too at the brutal
+barbarity of their countrymen, and dashed into the ranks of those very
+soldiers, whose love he had tried to deserve during ten years of faithful
+leadership.
+
+At noon, fortune seemed to be favoring the Egyptians; but at sunset the
+Persians had the advantage, and when the full-moon rose, the Egyptians
+were flying wildly from the battle-field, perishing in the marshes and in
+the arm of the Nile which flowed behind their position, or being cut to
+pieces by the swords of their enemies.
+
+Twenty thousand Persians and fifty thousand Egyptians lay dead on the
+blood-stained sea-sand.  The wounded, drowned, and prisoners could
+scarcely be numbered.
+
+     [Herod. III. 12.  Ktesias, Persica 9.  In ancient history the loss
+     of the conquered is always far greater than that of the conquerors.
+     To a certain extent this holds good in the present day, but the
+     proportion is decidedly not so unfavorable for the vanquished.]
+
+Psamtik had been one of the last to fly.  He was well mounted, and, with
+a few thousand faithful followers, reached the opposite bank of the Nile
+and made for Memphis, the well-fortified city of the Pyramids.
+
+Of the Greek mercenaries very few survived, so furious had been Phanes'
+revenge, and so well had he been supported by his Ionians.  Ten thousand
+Karians were taken captive and the murderer of his little child was
+killed by Phanes' own hand.
+
+Aristomachus too, in spite of his wooden leg, had performed miracles of
+bravery; but, notwithstanding all their efforts, neither he, nor any of
+his confederates in revenge, had succeeded in taking Psamtik prisoner.
+
+When the battle was over, the Persians returned in triumph to their
+tents, to be warmly welcomed by Croesus and the warriors and priests who
+had remained behind, and to celebrate their victory by prayers and
+sacrifices.
+
+The next morning Cambyses assembled his generals and rewarded them with
+different tokens of distinction, such as costly robes, gold chains,
+rings, swords, and stars formed of precious stones.  Gold and silver
+coins were distributed among the common soldiers.
+
+The principal attack of the Egyptians had been directed against the
+centre of the Persian army, where Cambyses commanded in person; and with
+such effect that the guards had already begun to give way.  At that
+moment Bartja, arriving with his troop of horsemen, had put fresh courage
+into the wavering, had fought like a lion himself, and by his bravery and
+promptitude decided the day in favor of the Persians.
+
+The troops were exultant in their joy: they shouted his praises, as "the
+conqueror of Pelusium" and the "best of the Achaemenidae."
+
+Their cries reached the king's ears and made him very angry.  He knew he
+had been fighting at the risk of life, with real courage and the strength
+of a giant, and yet the day would have been lost if this boy had not
+presented him with the victory.  The brother who had embittered his days
+of happy love, was now to rob him of half his military glory.  Cambyses
+felt that he hated Bartja, and his fist clenched involuntarily as he saw
+the young hero looking so happy in the consciousness of his own well-
+earned success.
+
+Phanes had been wounded and went to his tent; Aristomachus lay near him,
+dying.
+
+"The oracle has deceived me, after all," he murmured.  "I shall die
+without seeing my country again."
+
+"The oracle spoke the truth,"  answered Phanes.  "Were not the last words
+of the Pythia?"
+
+     'Then shall the lingering boat to the beckoning meadows convey thee,
+     Which to the wandering foot peace and a home will afford?'
+
+"Can you misunderstand their meaning?  They speak of Charon's lingering
+boat, which will convey you to your last home, to the one great resting-
+place for all wanderers--the kingdom of Hades."
+
+"Yes, my friend, you are right there.  I am going to Hades."
+
+"And the Five have granted you, before death, what they so long refused,
+--the return to Lacedaemon.  You ought to be thankful to the gods for
+granting you such sons and such vengeance on your enemies.  When my wound
+is healed, I shall go to Greece and tell your son that his father died a
+glorious death, and was carried to the grave on his shield, as beseems a
+hero."
+
+"Yes, do so, and give him my shield as a remembrance of his old father.
+There is no need to exhort him to virtue."
+
+"When Psamtik is in our power, shall I tell him what share you had in his
+overthrow?"
+
+"No; he saw me before he took to flight, and at the unexpected vision his
+bow fell from his hand.  This was taken by his friends as a signal for
+flight, and they turned their horses from the battle."
+
+"The gods ordain, that bad men shall be ruined by their own deeds.
+Psamtik lost courage, for he must have believed that the very spirits of
+the lower world were fighting against him."
+
+"We mortals gave him quite enough to do.  The Persians fought well.  But
+the battle would have been lost without the guards and our troops."
+
+"Without doubt."
+
+"I thank thee, O Zeus Lacedaemonius."
+
+"You are praying?"
+
+"I am praising the gods for allowing me to die at ease as to my country.
+These heterogeneous masses can never be dangerous to Greece.  Ho,
+physician, when am I likely to die?"
+
+The Milesian physician, who had accompanied the Greek troops to Egypt,
+pointed to the arrow-head sticking fast in his breast, and said with a
+sad smile, "You have only a few hours more to live.  If I were to draw
+the arrow from your wound, you would die at once."
+
+The Spartan thanked him, said farewell to Phanes, sent a greeting to
+Rhodopis, and then, before they could prevent him, drew the arrow from
+his wound with an unflinching hand.  A few moments later Aristomachus was
+dead.
+
+The same day a Persian embassy set out for Memphis on board one of the
+Lesbian vessels.  It was commissioned to demand from Psamtik the
+surrender of his own person and of the city at discretion.  Cambyses
+followed, having first sent off a division of his army under Megabyzus to
+invest Sais.
+
+At Heliopolis he was met by deputations from the Greek inhabitants of
+Naukratis and the Libyans, praying for peace and his protection, and
+bringing a golden wreath and other rich presents.  Cambyses received them
+graciously and assured them of his friendship; but repulsed the
+messengers from Cyrene and Barka indignantly, and flung, with his own
+hand, their tribute of five hundred silver mince among his soldiers,
+disdaining to accept so contemptible an offering.
+
+In Heliopolis he also heard that, at the approach of his embassy, the
+inhabitants of Memphis had flocked to the shore, bored a hole in the
+bottom of the ship, torn his messengers in pieces without distinction,
+as wild beasts would tear raw flesh, and dragged them into the fortress.
+On hearing this he cried angrily: "I swear, by Mithras, that these
+murdered men shall be paid for; ten lives for one."
+
+Two days later and Cambyses with his army stood before the gates of
+Memphis.  The siege was short, as the garrison was far too small for the
+city, and the citizens were discouraged by the fearful defeat at
+Pelusium.
+
+King Psamtik himself came out to Cambyses, accompanied by his principal
+nobles, in rent garments, and with every token of mourning.  Cambyses
+received him coldly and silently, ordering him and his followers to be
+guarded and removed.  He treated Ladice, the widow of Amasis, who
+appeared at the same time as her step-son, with consideration, and, at
+the intercession of Phanes, to whom she had always shown favor, allowed
+her to return to her native town of Cyrene under safe conduct.  She
+remained there until the fall of her nephew, Arcesilaus III. and the
+flight of her sister Pheretime, when she betook herself to Anthylla, the
+town in Egypt which belonged to her, and where she passed a quiet,
+solitary existence, dying at a great age.
+
+Cambyses not only scorned to revenge the imposture which had been
+practised on him on a woman, but, as a Persian, had far too much respect
+for a mother, and especially for the mother of a king, to injure Ladice
+in any way.
+
+While he was engaged in the siege of Sais, Psamtik passed his
+imprisonment in the palace of the Pharaohs, treated in every respect
+as a king, but strictly guarded.
+
+Among those members of the upper class who had incited the people to
+resistance, Neithotep, the high-priest of Neith, had taken the foremost
+place.  He was therefore sent to Memphis and put in close confinement,
+with one hundred of his unhappy confederates.  The larger number of the
+Pharaoh's court, on the other hand, did homage voluntarily to Cambyses at
+Sais, entitled him Ramestu, "child of the sun," and suggested that he
+should cause himself to be crowned King of Upper and Lower Egypt, with
+all the necessary formalities, and admitted into the priestly caste
+according to ancient custom.  By the advice of Croesus and Phanes,
+Cambyses gave in to these proposals, though much against his own will:
+he went so far, indeed, as to offer sacrifice in the temple of Neith,
+and allowed the newly-created high-priest of the goddess to give him a
+superficial insight into the nature of the mysteries.  Some of the
+courtiers he retained near himself, and promoted different administrative
+functionaries to high posts; the commander of Amasis' Nile fleet
+succeeded so well in gaining the king's favor, as to be appointed one of
+those who ate at the royal table.
+
+     [On a statue in the Gregorian Museum in the Vatican, there is an
+     inscription giving an account of Cambyses' sojourn at Sais, which
+     agrees with the facts related in our text.  He was lenient to his
+     conquered subjects, and, probably in order to secure his position as
+     the lawful Pharaoh, yielded to the wishes of the priests, was even
+     initiated into the mysteries and did much for the temple of Neith.
+     His adoption of the name Ramestu is also confirmed by this statue.
+     E. de Rough, Memoire sur la statuette naophore du musee Gregorian,
+     au Vatican. Revue Archeol. 1851.]
+
+On leaving Sais, Cambyses placed Megabyzus in command of the city; but
+scarcely had the king quitted their walls than the smothered rage of the
+people broke forth; they murdered the Persian sentinels, poisoned the
+wells, and set the stables of the cavalry on fire.  Megabyzus at once
+applied to the king, representing that such hostile acts, if not
+repressed by fear, might soon be followed by open rebellion.  "The two
+thousand noble youths from Memphis whom you have destined to death as an
+indemnification for our murdered ambassadors," said he, "ought to be
+executed at once; and it would do no harm if the son of Psamtik were
+added to the number, as he can some day become a rallying centre for the
+rebels.  I hear that the daughters of the dethroned king and of the high-
+priest Neithotep have to carry water for the baths of the noble Phanes."
+
+The Athenian answered with a smile: "Cambyses has allowed me to employ
+these aristocratic female attendants, my lord, at my own request."
+
+"But has forbidden you to touch the life of one member of the royal
+house," added Cambyses.  "None but a king has the right to punish kings."
+
+Phanes bowed.  The king turned to Megabyzus and ordered him to have the
+prisoners executed the very next day, as an example.  He would decide the
+fate of the young prince later; but at all events he was to be taken to
+the place of execution with the rest.  "We must show them," he concluded,
+"that we know how to meet all their hostile manifestations with
+sufficient rigor."
+
+Croesus ventured to plead for the innocent boy.  "Calm yourself, old
+friend," said Cambyses with a smile; "the child is not dead yet, and
+perhaps will be as well off with us as your own son, who fought so well
+at Pelusium.  I confess I should like to know, whether Psamtik bears his
+fate as calmly and bravely as you did twenty-five years ago."
+
+"That we can easily discover, by putting him on trial," said Phanes.
+"Let him be brought into the palace-court to-morrow, and let the captives
+and the condemned be led past him.  Then we shall see whether he is a man
+or a coward."
+
+"Be it so," answered Cambyses.  "I will conceal myself and watch him
+unobserved.  You, Phanes, will accompany me, to tell me the name and rank
+of each of the captives."
+
+The next morning Phanes accompanied the king on to a balcony which ran
+round the great court of the palace--the court we have already described
+as being planted with trees.  The listeners were hidden by a grove of
+flowering shrubs, but they could see every movement that took place, and
+hear every word that was spoken beneath them.  They saw Psamtik,
+surrounded by a few of his former companions.  He was leaning against a
+palm-tree, his eyes fixed gloomily on the ground, as his daughters
+entered the court.  The daughter of Neithotep was with them, and some
+more young girls, all dressed as slaves; they were carrying pitchers of
+water.  At sight of the king, they uttered such a loud cry of anguish as
+to wake him from his reverie.  He looked up, recognized the miserable
+girls, and bowed his head lower than before; but only for a moment.
+Drawing himself up quickly, he asked his eldest daughter for whom she was
+carrying water.  On hearing that she was forced to do the work of a slave
+for Phanes, he turned deadly pale, nodded his head, and cried to the
+girls, "Go on."
+
+A few minutes later the captives were led into the court, with ropes
+round their necks, and bridles in their mouths.
+
+     [This statement of Herodotus (III. 14.) is confirmed by the
+     monuments, on which we often see representations of captives being
+     led along with ropes round their necks.  What follows is taken
+     entirely from the same passage in Herodotus.]
+
+At the head of the train was the little prince Necho.  He stretched his
+hands out to his father, begging him to punish the bad foreigners who
+wanted to kill him.  At this sight the Egyptians wept in their exceeding
+great misery; but Psamtik's eyes were dry.  He bowed his tearless face
+nearly to the earth, and waved his child a last farewell.
+
+After a short interval, the captives taken in Sais entered.  Among them
+was Neithotep, the once powerful high-priest, clothed in rags and moving
+with difficulty by the help of a staff.  At the entrance-gate he raised
+his eyes and caught sight of his former pupil Darius.  Reckless of all
+the spectators around him, he went straight up to the young man, poured
+out the story of his need, besought his help, and ended by begging an
+alms.  Darius complied at once, and by so doing, induced others of the
+Achaemenidae, who were standing by, to hail the old man jokingly and
+throw him little pieces of money, which he picked up laboriously and
+thankfully from the ground.
+
+At this sight Psamtik wept aloud, and smote upon his forehead, calling on
+the name of his friend in a voice full of woe.
+
+Cambyses was so astonished at this, that he came forward to the
+balustrade of the veranda, and pushing the flowers aside, exclaimed:
+"Explain thyself, thou strange man; the misfortunes of a beggar, not even
+akin to thee, move thy compassion, but thou canst behold thy son on the
+way to execution and thy daughters in hopeless misery without shedding a
+tear, or uttering a lament!"
+
+Psamtik looked up at his conqueror, and answered: "The misfortunes of my
+own house, O son of Cyrus, are too great for tears; but I may be
+permitted to weep over the afflictions of a friend, fallen, in his old
+age, from the height of happiness and influence into the most miserable
+beggary."
+
+Cambyses' face expresseed his approval, and on looking round he saw that
+his was not the only eye which was filled with tears.  Croesus, Bartja,
+and all the Persians-nay, even Phanes himself, who had served as
+interpreter to the kings-were weeping aloud.
+
+The proud conqueror was not displeased at these signs of sympathy, and
+turning to the Athenian: "I think, my Greek friend" he said, "we may
+consider our wrongs as avenged.  Rise, Psamtik, and endeavor to imitate
+yonder noble old man, (pointing to Croesus) by accustoming yourself to
+your fate.  Your father's fraud has been visited on you and your family.
+The crown, which I have wrested from you is the crown of which Amasis
+deprived my wife, my never-to-be-forgotten Nitetis.  For her sake I began
+this war, and for her sake I grant you now the life of your son--she
+loved him.  From this time forward you can live undisturbed at our court,
+eat at our table and share the privileges of our nobles.  Gyges, fetch
+the boy hither.  He shall be brought up as you were, years ago, among the
+sons of the Achaemenidae."
+
+The Lydian was hastening to execute this delightful commission, but
+Phanes stopped him before he could reach the door, and placing himself
+proudly between the king and the trembling, thankful Psamtik, said: "You
+would be going on a useless errand, noble Lydian.  In defiance of your
+command, my Sovereign, but in virtue of the full powers you once gave me,
+I have ordered the grandson of Amasis to be the executioner's first
+victim.  You have just heard the sound of a horn; that was the sign that
+the last heir to the Egyptian throne born on the shores of the Nile has
+been gathered to his fathers.  I am aware of the fate I have to expect,
+Cambyses.  I will not plead for a life whose end has been attained.
+Croesus, I understand your reproachful looks.  You grieve for the
+murdered children.  But life is such a web of wretchedness and
+disappointment, that I agree with your philosopher Solon in thinking
+those fortunate to whom, as in former days to Kleobis and Biton, the gods
+decree an early death.
+
+     [Croesus, after having shown Solon his treasures, asked him whom he
+     held to be the most fortunate of men, hoping to hear his own name.
+     The sage first named Tellus, a famous citizen of Athens, and then
+     the brothers Kleobis and Biton.  These were two handsome youths, who
+     had gained the prize for wrestling, and one day, when the draught-
+     animals had not returned from the field, dragged their mother
+     themselves to the distant temple, in presence of the people.  The
+     men of Argos praised the strength of the sons,--the women praised
+     the mother who possessed these sons.  She, transported with delight
+     at her sons' deed and the people's praise, went to the statue of the
+     goddess and besought her to give them the best that could fall to
+     the lot of men.  When her prayer was over and the sacrifice offered,
+     the youths fell asleep, and never woke again.  They were dead.
+     Herod. I, 31.  Cicero. Tuscul. I. 47.]
+
+"If I have ever been dear to you, Cambyses--if my counsels have been of
+any use, permit me as a last favor to say a few more words.  Psamtik
+knows the causes that rendered us foes to each other.  Ye all, whose
+esteem is worth so much to me, shall know them too.  This man's father
+placed me in his son's stead at the head of the troops which had been
+sent to Cyprus.  Where Psamtik had earned humiliation, I won success and
+glory.  I also became unintentionally acquainted with a secret, which
+seriously endangered his chances of obtaining the crown; and lastly, I
+prevented his carrying off a virtuous maiden from the house of her
+grandmother, an aged woman, beloved and respected by all the Greeks.
+These are the sins which he has never been able to forgive; these are the
+grounds which led him to carry on war to the death with me directly I had
+quitted his father's service.  The struggle is decided now.  My innocent
+children have been murdered at thy command, and I have been pursued like
+a wild beast.  That has been thy revenge.  But mine!--I have deprived
+thee of thy throne and reduced thy people to bondage.  Thy daughter I
+have called my slave, thy son's death-warrant was pronounced by my lips,
+and my eyes have seen the maiden whom thou persecutedst become the happy
+wife of a brave man.  Undone, sinking ever lower and lower, thou hast
+watched me rise to be the richest and most powerful of my nation.  In the
+lowest depth of thine own misery--and this has been the most delicious
+morsel of my vengeance--thou wast forced to see me--me, Phanes shedding
+tears that could not be kept back, at the sight of thy misery.  The man,
+who is allowed to draw even one breath of life, after beholding his enemy
+so low, I hold to be happy as the gods themselves  I have spoken."
+
+He ceased, and pressed his hand on his wound.  Cambyses gazed at him in
+astonishment, stepped forward, and was just going to touch his girdle--
+an action which would have been equivalent to the signing of a death-
+warrant when his eye caught sight of the chain, which he himself had hung
+round the Athenian's neck as a reward for the clever way in which he had
+proved the innocence of Nitetis.
+
+     [The same sign was used by the last Darius to denote that his able
+     Greek general Memnon, who had offended him by his plainness of
+     speech, was doomed to death.  As he was being led away, Memnon
+     exclaimed, in allusion to Alexander, who was then fast drawing near:
+     "Thy remorse will soon prove my worth; my avenger is not far off."
+     Droysen, Alex. d. Grosse,  Diod. XVII. 30.  Curtius III. 2.]
+
+The sudden recollection of the woman he loved, and of the countless
+services rendered him by Phanes, calmed his wrath his hand dropped.  One
+minute the severe ruler stood gazing lingeringly at his disobedient
+friend; the next, moved by a sudden impulse, he raised his right hand
+again, and pointed imperiously to the gate leading from the court.
+
+Phanes bowed in silence, kissed the king's robe, and descended slowly
+into the court.  Psamtik watched him, quivering with excitement, sprang
+towards the veranda, but before his lips could utter the curse which his
+heart had prepared, he sank powerless on to the ground.
+
+Cambyses beckoned to his followers to make immediate preparations for a
+lion-hunt in the Libyan mountains.
+
+
+
+
+ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS:
+
+Between two stools a man falls to the ground
+Human beings hate the man who shows kindness to their enemies
+Misfortune too great for tears
+Nothing is more dangerous to love, than a comfortable assurance
+Ordered his feet to be washed and his head anointed
+Rules of life given by one man to another are useless
+
+
+
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