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Title: The history of Herodotus. A new English version, ed. with copious notes and appendices, illustrating the history and geography of Herodotus, from the most recent sources of information; and embodying the chief results, historical and ethnographical, which have been obtained in the progress of cuneiform and hieroglyphical discovery

Year: 1862 (1860s)

Authors: Herodotus Rawlinson, George, 1812-1902 Rawlinson, Henry Creswicke, Sir, 1810-1895 Wilkinson, John Gardner, Sir, 1797-1875

Subjects: History, Ancient

Publisher: London : J. Murray

Contributing Library: University of California Libraries

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witharrow - headed inscriptions engravedacross them, and over the drapery aswell as the body; and the Assyrianfigures close to those of Remeses at theNahr el Kclb may possibly have led tothis mistake.—(G. W.) ^ The idea of strength was often con-veyed by this expression, instead ofby the force of my arm (cp. oshianeros/ie deo similis )•.—(G. W.) ^ Herodotus shows his discriminationin rejecting the notion of his beingMemnon, Avhich had already becomeprevalent among the Greeks, who sawMemnon everywhere in Egypt merelybecause he was mentioned in Homer.A similar error is made at the presentday in expecting to find a reference toJewish histoiy on the monuments,though it is obviously not the. customof any people to record their misfor-tunes to posterity in painting or sculp-ture. (See note i on ch. 136, and App.CH. V. p. 42.) The Egyptians seem tohave taken advantage of Greek cre-dulity in pei-suading visitors that themost remarkable statue, tomb, andtemple at Thebes, or Abydus, were

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J Chap. lOG, 107. RETURN OP SESOSTRIS TO EGYPT. 151 107. Tliis Sesostris, tlie priests went on to say, upon his returnhome, accompanied by vast multitudes of the people whosecomitries he had subdued,^ was received by his brother,^ whom made by the prince they usually in-quired about, and with whose historythey fancied themselves acquainte4 ;though Memuou, if he ever existed,was not after ail an Egyptian, nor evenfrom any jmrt of the valley of the Nile.According to Diodorus (ii. 22) he wassent by Teutamus, the 21st king ofAssyria after Semiramis, with a forceof 10,000 Ethiopians and the samenumber of Susans, and 200 chariots,to assist Priam (the brother of hisfather Tithomis), when being killed inan ambuscade by the Thessalians, hisbody was recovered and .hiuiit by theEthiopians. These were Ethiopians ofAsia, and those of Africa did not burntheir dead. Herodotus also speaks ofthe j^alace of Memuon, and calls Susaa Memnonian city (v. 53, 51-, and vii.151). Strabo and Pausauias agree wit

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