Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: April 30, 2025
The enemy for whose destruction he prays is Mena, the king's charioteer, and, indeed, he must have been of superhuman magnanimity or of unmanly feebleness, if he could have wished well to the man who robbed him of the beautiful wife who was destined for him." "How could that happen?" asked the priest from Chennu. "A betrothal is sacred."
"The enemy is not unknown to us also," said the elder priest from Chennu, "although we, on the remote southern frontier of the kingdom, have escaped many evils that in the north have eaten into our body like a cancer. "Hardly?" exclaimed the chief of the haruspices; "they are invited, caressed, and honored.
Between the sleepers passed bondmen and slaves, brown and black, in long files one behind the other, bending under the weight of heavy burdens, which had to be conveyed to their destination at the temples for sacrifice, or to the dealers in various wares. Builders dragged blocks of stone, which had come from the quarries of Chennu and Suan,
In Chennu, as you know, besides the quarries there is the great college of priests, which is in close alliance with the temple of Seti. When the flood begins to rise, and they hold the great Nile-festival in Chennu, the priests there have the right of taking three of the criminals who are working in the quarries into their house as servants.
The soldier had come to take leave of her, he had to escort some prisoners. "To Chennu?" asked Uarda. "No, to the north," replied the man. His daughter now related what she had heard, and asked whether he could help the priest, who had saved her. "If I had money, if I had money!" muttered the soldier to himself.
The steward declared that the good Pentaur was wicked, and stood in his way, and he said that Ameni was going to send him to the quarries at Chennu, but that that was much too small a punishment.
Now he said, turning to the priests from Chennu "Gagabu is a foolish, hot-headed old man, and you have heard from his lips just such a sermon as the young scribes keep by them when they enter on the duties of the care of souls. His sentiments are excellent, but he easily overlooks small things for the sake of great ones.
To Bent-Anat was given the task of rescuing Pentaur, with the help of the faithful chamberlain. Money was fortunately not wanting, as the high treasurer was on their side. All depended on their inducing the captain to stop at Chennu; the poet's fate would there, at the worst, be endurable.
You, Pentaur, fulfil my orders to-morrow morning with energy and prudence." The high-priest bowed and left the feast. As soon as the door was shut behind him, the old priest from Chennu spoke. "What we have learned concerning the pioneer of the king, a man who holds so high an office, surprises me. Does he distinguish himself by a special acuteness?"
The prince meanwhile had hurried on, and enquired in the harbor of the Necropolis where the vessel destined for Chennu was lying for the ships loaded with prisoners were accustomed to sail from this side of the river, starting at night. Then he was ferried over the river, and hastened to Bent-Anat.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking