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The following story, incredible to me, is also told: that one of the Persian women who came to visit Cyrus' wives, and saw the tall and attractive children who stood by Cassandane, expressed her admiration in extravagant terms. Then Cassandane, Cyrus' wife, said,
The following story, incredible to me, is also told: that one of the Persian women who came to visit Cyrus' wives, and saw the tall and attractive children who stood by Cassandane, expressed her admiration in extravagant terms. Then Cassandane, Cyrus' wife, said,
[2] “Although I am the mother of such children,
Cyrus dishonors me and honors his new woman from
Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa
Egypt
.” So she spoke in her bitterness against
Nitetis; and
Cambyses, the eldest of her sons, said,
[3] “Then, mother, when I am grown up, I will turn all
Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa
Egypt
upside down.” When he said this, he was about ten years old, and the women were amazed; but he kept it in mind, and it was thus that when he grew up and became king, he made the campaign against
Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa
Egypt
.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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