Histories

But of the other kings they related no achievement or act of great note, except of Moeris, the last of them.

This Moeris was remembered as having built the northern forecourt of the temple of Hephaestus, and dug a lake, of as great a circumference as I shall later indicate; and built pyramids there also, the size of which I will mention when I speak of the lake. All this was Moeris' work, they said; of none of the rest had they anything to record.

Leaving the latter aside, then, I shall speak of the king who came after them, whose name was Sesostris[*](Rameses II., called by the GreeksSesostris; said to have ruled in the fourteenth century B.C.).

This king, the priests said, set out with a fleet of long ships[*](Ships of war.) from the Persian Gulf [53.83,25.583] (gulf), AsiaArabian Gulf and subjugated all those living by the +Red Sea [42,15] (sea) Red Sea, until he came to a sea which was too shallow for his vessels.