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When Cambyses determined to send the spies, he sent for those Fish-eaters from the city of Elephantine who understood the Ethiopian language.
When Cambyses determined to send the spies, he sent for those Fish-eaters from the city of Elephantine who understood the Ethiopian language.
[2] While they were fetching them, he ordered his fleet to sail against
+Carthage [10.3333,36.8667] (Perseus)
Carthage
. But the
Phoenicians said they would not do it; for they were bound, they said, by strong oaths, and if they sailed against their own progeny they would be doing an impious thing; and the
Phoenicians being unwilling, the rest were inadequate fighters.
[3] Thus the
Carthaginians escaped being enslaved by the
Persians; for
Cambyses would not use force with the
Phoenicians, seeing that they had willingly surrendered to the
Persians, and the whole fleet drew its strength from them. The
Cyprians too had come of their own accord to aid the
Persians against
Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa
Egypt
.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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