Histories

Herodotus

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

After him reigned a blind man called Anysis, of the town of that name. In his reign Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa Egypt was invaded by Sabacos king of Ethiopia [39,8] (nation), AfricaEthiopia and a great army of Ethiopians.[*](In Manetho's list three Ethiopian kings form the twenty-fifth dynasty, Sabacon, Sebichos, and Taracos (the Tirhaka of the Old Testament).)

The blind man fled to the marshes, and the Ethiopian ruled Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa Egypt for fifty years, during which he distinguished himself for the following:

he would never put to death any Egyptian wrongdoer but sentenced all, according to the severity of their offenses, to raise embankments in their native towns. Thus the towns came to stand yet higher than before;

for after first being built on embankments made by the excavators of the canals in the reign of Sesostris, they were yet further raised in the reign of the Ethiopian.