Learning of this, too, Apries armed his guard and marched against the Egyptians; he had a bodyguard of Carians and Ionians, thirty thousand of them, and his royal palace was in the city of Saïs, a great and marvellous palace.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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