Histories

The Egyptians say, however, that it was not Amasis to whom this was done, but another Egyptian of the same age as Amasis, whom the Persians abused thinking that they were abusing Amasis.

For their story is that Amasis learned from an oracle what was to be done to him after his death, and so to escape this fate buried this dead man, the one that was scourged, near the door inside his own vault, and ordered his son that he himself should be laid in the farthest corner of the vault.

I think that these commands of Amasis, regarding the burial-place and the man, were never given at all, and that the Egyptians believe in them in vain.

After this Cambyses planned three expeditions, against the Carchedonians,[*](Carthaginians.) against the Ammonians, and against the “long-lived”[*](cp. beginning of Hdt. 3.23.) Ethiopians, who inhabit that part of Libya [17,25] (nation), AfricaLibya that is on the southern sea.