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Title: The boys' and girls' Herodotus; being parts of the history of Herodotus
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Herodotus White, John S. (John Stuart), 1847-1922, ed
Subjects: History, Ancient
Publisher: New York & London, G. P. Putnam's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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supported life by eating herbs as long as they could gather anyfrom the ground ; but when they reached the sands, some of themhad recourse to a dreadful expedient, for taking one man in ten bylot, they devoured him : when Cambyses heard this, shocked attheir eating one another, he abandoned his expedition against theEthiopians, marched back and reached Thebes, after losing a greatpart of his army. From Thebes he went down to Memphis, andsuffered the Greeks to sail away. Thus ended the expeditionagainst the Ethiopians. Those who had been sent against theAmmonians, after having set out from Thebes, under the conductof guides, are known to have reached the city Oasis, which is in-habited by Samians, distant seven days* march from Thebes,across the sands. This country in the Greek language is called theIsland of the Blessed. But afterward none, except the Ammo-nians and those who have heard their report, are able to give anyaccount of them ; for they neither reached the Ammonians, nor re-
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148 HERODOTUS. turned back. But the Ammonians make the following report:When they had advanced from this Oasis toward them across thesands, and were about half-way between them and Oasis, as theywere taking dinner, a vehement south wind blew, carrying with itheaps of sand, and completely destroyed the whole army. When Cambyses arrived at Memphis, Apis, whom the Greekscall Epaphus, appeared to the Egyptians ; and when this manifes-tation took place, the Egyptians immediately put on their richestapparel, and kept festive holiday. Cambyses, seeing them thusoccupied, and concluding that they made these rejoicings on accountof his ill success, summoned the magistrates of Memphis ; andwhen they came into his presence, he asked why the Egyptianshad done nothing of the kind when he was at Memphis before, butdid so now, when he had returned with the loss of a great part ofhis army. They answered, that their god appeared to them, whowas accustomed to manifest himself at intervals, and that when

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