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It is said that in the reign of Amasis Egypt attained to its greatest prosperity, in respect of what the river did for the land and the land for its people: and that the number of inhabited cities in the country was twenty thousand.
It is said that in the reign of Amasis Egypt attained to its greatest prosperity, in respect of what the river did for the land and the land for its people: and that the number of inhabited cities in the country was twenty thousand.
[2] It was
Amasis also who made the law that every
Egyptian declare his means of livelihood to the ruler of his district annually, and that omitting to do so or to prove that one had a legitimate livelihood be punishable with death.
Solon the
Athenian got this law from
Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa
Egypt
and established it among his people; may they always have it, for it is a perfect law.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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