Syria Palestine I myself saw them existing with the
inscription upon them which I have mentioned and the emblem. Moreover
in Ionia there are two figures of this man carved upon rocks, one on
the road by which one goes from the land of Ephesos to Phocaia, and the
other on the road from Sardis to Smyrna. In each place there is a figure
of a man cut in the rock, of four cubits and a span in height, holding
in his right hand a spear and in his left a bow and arrows, and the
other equipment which he has is similar to this, for it is both Egyptian
and Ethiopian: and from the one shoulder to the other across the breast
runs an inscription carved in sacred Egyptian characters, saying thus,
"This land with my shoulders I won for myself." But who he is and from
whence, he does not declare in these places, though in other places he
had declared this. Some of those who have seen these carvings conjecture
that the figure is that of Memnon, but herein they are very far from the
truth.

As this Egyptian Sesostris was returning and bringing back many men of
the nations whose lands he had subdued, when he came (said the priests)
to Daphnai in the district of Pelusion on his journey home, his brother
to whom Sesostris had entrusted the charge of Egypt invited him and
with him his sons to a feast; and then he piled the house round with
brushwood and set it on fire: and Sesostris when he discovered this
forthwith took counsel with his wife, for he was bringing with him (they
said) his wife also; and she counselled him to lay out upon the pyre two
of his sons, which were six in number, and so to make a bridge over
the burning mass, and that they passing over their bodies should thus
escape. This, they said, Sesostris did, and two of his sons were burnt
to death in this manner, but the rest got away safe with their father.
Then Sesostris, having returned to Egypt and having taken vengeance on
his brother employed the multitude which he had brought in of those
who whose lands he had subdued, as follows:--these were they drew the
stones which in the reign of this king were brought to the temple of
Hephaistos, being of very good size; and also these were compelled to
dig all the channels which now are in Egypt; and thus (having no such
purpose) they caused Egypt, which before was all fit for riding and
driving, to be no longer fit for this from thenceforth: for from that
time forward Egypt, though it is plain land, has become all unfit for
rid