tians. For she
caused to be constructed a very large chamber under ground, and making
as though she would handsel it but in her mind devising other things,
she invited those of the Egyptians whom she knew to have had most part
in the murder, and gave a great banquet. Then while they were feasting,
she let in the river upon them by a secret conduit of large size. Of
her they told no more than this, except that, when this had been
accomplished, she threw herself into a room full of embers, in order
that she might escape vengeance. As for the other kings, they could tell
me of no great works which had been produced by them, and they said that
they had no renown except only the last of them, Moiris: he (they
said) produced as a memorial of himself the gateway of the temple of
Hephaistos which is turned towards the North Wind, and dug a lake, about
which I shall set forth afterwards how many furlongs of circuit it has,
and in it built pyramids of the size which I shall mention at the same
time when I speak of the lake itself. He, they said, produced these
works, but of the rest none produced any.

Therefore passing these by I will make mention of the king who came
after these, whose name is Sesostris. He (the priests said) first of all
set out with ships of war from the Arabian gulf and subdued those who
dwelt by the shores of the Erythraian Sea, until as he sailed he came
to a sea which could no further be navigated by reason of shoals: then
secondly, after he had returned to Egypt, according to the report of the
priests he took a great army and marched over the continent, subduing
every nation which stood in his way: and those of them whom he found
valiant and fighting desperately for their freedom, in their lands he
set up pillars which told by inscriptions his own name and the name of
his country, and how he had subdued them by his power; but as to those
of whose cities he obtained possession without fighting or with ease, on
their pillars he inscribed words after the same tenor as he did for the
nations which had shown themselves courageous, and in addition he drew
upon them the hidden parts of a woman, desiring to signify by this that
the people were cowards and effeminate. Thus doing he traversed the
continent, until at last he passed over to Europe from Asia and subdued
the Scythians and also the Thracians. These, I am of opinion, were the
furthest people to which the Egyptian army came, for in their country
the pill