Histories

So a great multitude gathered at Shahhat [21.866,32.833] (inhabited place), Al Jabal al Akhdar, Libya, AfricaCyrene, and cut out great tracts of land from the territory of the neighboring Libyans. Robbed of their lands and treated violently by the Cyrenaeans, these then sent to Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa Egypt together with their king, whose name was Adicran, and put their affairs in the hands of Apries, the king of that country.

Apries mustered a great force of Egyptians and sent it against Shahhat [21.866,32.833] (inhabited place), Al Jabal al Akhdar, Libya, AfricaCyrene; the Cyrenaeans marched out to Irasa and the Thestes spring, and there fought with the Egyptians and beat them;

for the Egyptians had as yet had no experience of Greeks, and despised their enemy; as a result of which, they were so utterly destroyed that few of them returned to Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa Egypt. Because of this misfortune, and because they blamed him for it, the Egyptians revolted from Apries.[*](In 570 B.C.; cp. Hdt. 2.161.)

This Battus had a son Arcesilaus; on his first coming to reign, he quarrelled with his brothers, until they left him and went away to another place in Libya [17,25] (nation), AfricaLibya, where they founded a city for themselves, which was then and is now called +Al Marj [20.833,32.5] (inhabited place), Al Jabal al Akhdar, Libya, Africa Barce; and while they were founding it, they persuaded the Libyans to revolt from the Cyrenaeans.

Then Arcesilaus led an army into the country of the Libyans who had received his brothers and had also revolted; and they fled in fear of him to the eastern Libyans.