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Menelaus then went to Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa Egypt and up the river to Mit Rahina [31.25,29.85] (inhabited place), Giza, Upper Egypt, Egypt, Africa Memphis ; there, relating the truth of the matter, he met with great hospitality and got back Helen, who had not been harmed, and also all his wealth, besides.
Menelaus then went to Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa Egypt and up the river to Mit Rahina [31.25,29.85] (inhabited place), Giza, Upper Egypt, Egypt, Africa Memphis ; there, relating the truth of the matter, he met with great hospitality and got back Helen, who had not been harmed, and also all his wealth, besides.
[2] Yet, although getting this,
Menelaus was guilty of injustice toward the
Egyptians. For adverse weather detained him when he tried to sail away; after this continued for some time, he carried out something impious,
[3] taking two native children and sacrificing them. When it became known that he had done this, he fled with his ships straight to
Libya [17,25] (nation), Africa
Libya
, hated and hunted; and where he went from there, the
Egyptians could not say. The priests told me that they had learned some of this by inquiry, but that they were sure of what had happened in their own country.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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