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When I inquired of the priests, they told me that this was the story of Helen. After carrying off Helen from Sparta [22.4417,37.0667] (Perseus) Sparta , Alexandrus sailed away for his own country; violent winds caught him in the +Aegean Sea [25,38.5] (sea) Aegean and drove him into the Egyptian sea; and from there (as the wind did not let up) he came to Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa Egypt , to the mouth of the Nahr an- Nil [31.1,30.166] (river), Africa Nile called the Canopic mouth, and to the Salters'.
When I inquired of the priests, they told me that this was the story of Helen. After carrying off Helen from Sparta [22.4417,37.0667] (Perseus) Sparta , Alexandrus sailed away for his own country; violent winds caught him in the +Aegean Sea [25,38.5] (sea) Aegean and drove him into the Egyptian sea; and from there (as the wind did not let up) he came to Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa Egypt , to the mouth of the Nahr an- Nil [31.1,30.166] (river), Africa Nile called the Canopic mouth, and to the Salters'.
[2] Now there was (and still is) on the coast a temple of
Heracles; if a servant of any man takes refuge there and is branded with certain sacred marks, delivering himself to the god, he may not be touched. This law continues today the same as it has always been from the first.
[3] Hearing of the temple law, some of
Alexandrus' servants ran away from him, threw themselves on the mercy of the god, and brought an accusation against
Alexandrus meaning to injure him, telling the whole story of
Helen and the wrong done
Menelaus. They laid this accusation before the priests and the warden of the
Nahr an- Nil [31.1,30.166] (river), Africa
Nile
mouth, whose name was
Thonis.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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