After what happened to his daughter, the following happened next to this king: an oracle came to him from the city of +Kawm al-Farain [30.733,31.2] (deserted settlement), Kafr ash-Shaykh, Lower Egypt, Egypt, Africa Buto , announcing that he had just six years to live and was to die in the seventh.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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