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.