Histories

Herodotus

Herodotus. Godley, Alfred Denis, translator. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann, Ltd., 1920-1925 (printing).

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;