Histories

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.