Histories

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.

After returning from there back to Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa Egypt, he gathered a great army (according to the account of the priests) and marched over the mainland, subjugating every nation to which he came.