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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 Excerpt:...in another direction, the Egyptians made a second struggle for freedom. Th"iTi1.deS' Inabus, the son of Psammetichus, who had Fig. been reigning in the city of Marsea, not far from where Alexandria was afterwards built, raised the Libyans in rebellion against the Persians; and in a short time the greater part of Egypt joined him. His name is written in the hieroglyphics Adon-ra-bakan, meaning, The servant of AdonBa (see Fig. 192). The Persians had few troops in the province except their garrisons, and the whole of the open country declared for Inarus. The prefect Achsemenes Shuti? got together what forces he could; and the two little armies met in battle near the city of Papremis, in the nome of Prosopiles, near the head of the Delta, were conquerors; Fig. 192. Here the Egyptians the righteousness of the cause rbub!dide8' &(lded strength to their charge, and their tyrants were routed and put to flight. But while the two fortresses Memphis and Pelusium were held by the Persians, the Egyptians had by no means gained their freedom; and such was the low state of warlike skill in the country, that no number of Egyptians could dislodge the Persian garrisons. Inarus therefore sought an alliance with the Athenians, who, after a long struggle with the naval forces of the island of iEgina, were at length masters of the sea, and had at that time at Cyprus a force of two Scholia8t hundred ships. The payment sent to Athens by in Aristopi. Inarus, or Psammetichus, as the Athenians called Vesp'716, him, was about seventy-two thousand bushels of wheat. The price of the Athenian friendship was five bushels for each citizen, but the payment hoped for by the Athenian fleet was the wealth of Egypt and the spoil of the Persians. Of course the force on its arrival was t...