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After him came three hundred and thirty kings, whose names the priests recited from a papyrus roll. In all these many generations there were eighteen Ethiopian kings, and one queen, native to the country; the rest were all Egyptian men.
After him came three hundred and thirty kings, whose names the priests recited from a papyrus roll. In all these many generations there were eighteen Ethiopian kings, and one queen, native to the country; the rest were all Egyptian men.
[2] The name of the queen was the same as that of the
Babylonian princess,
Nitocris. She, to avenge her brother (he was king of
Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa
Egypt
and was slain by his subjects, who then gave
Nitocris the sovereignty) put many of the
Egyptians to death by treachery.
[3] She built a spacious underground chamber; then, with the pretence of inaugurating it, but with quite another intent in her mind, she gave a great feast, inviting to it those
Egyptians whom she knew to have had the most complicity in her brother's murder; and while they feasted, she let the river in upon them by a vast secret channel.
[4] This was all that the priests told of her, except that when she had done this she cast herself into a chamber full of hot ashes, to escape vengeance.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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