Histories

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.

When those that he met were valiant men and strove hard for freedom, he set up pillars in their land, the inscription on which showed his own name and his country's, and how he had overcome them with his own power;

but when the cities had made no resistance and been easily taken, then he put an inscription on the pillars just as he had done where the nations were brave; but he also drew on them the private parts of a woman, wishing to show clearly that the people were cowardly.