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So fared the expedition against Ethiopia [39,8] (nation), Africa Ethiopia . As for those who were sent to march against the Ammonians, they set out and journeyed from Thebes [32.666,25.683] (deserted settlement), Qina, Upper Egypt, Egypt, Africa Thebes with guides; and it is known that they came to the city of Oasis, 1 inhabited by Samians said to be of the Aeschrionian tribe, seven days' march from Thebes [32.666,25.683] (deserted settlement), Qina, Upper Egypt, Egypt, Africa Thebes across sandy desert; this place is called, in the Greek language, Islands of the Blest.
So fared the expedition against Ethiopia [39,8] (nation), Africa Ethiopia . As for those who were sent to march against the Ammonians, they set out and journeyed from Thebes [32.666,25.683] (deserted settlement), Qina, Upper Egypt, Egypt, Africa Thebes with guides; and it is known that they came to the city of Oasis, 1 inhabited by Samians said to be of the Aeschrionian tribe, seven days' march from Thebes [32.666,25.683] (deserted settlement), Qina, Upper Egypt, Egypt, Africa Thebes across sandy desert; this place is called, in the Greek language, Islands of the Blest.
[2] Thus far, it is said, the army came; after that, except for the
Ammonians themselves and those who heard from them, no man can say anything of them; for they neither reached the
Ammonians nor returned back.
[3] But this is what the
Ammonians themselves say: when the
Persians were crossing the sand from Oasis to attack them, and were about midway between their country and Oasis, while they were breakfasting a great and violent south wind arose, which buried them in the masses of sand which it bore; and so they disappeared from sight. Such is the
Ammonian tale about this army.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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