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But Nitager, to whom war is as water to a fish; but the leaders of our mercenary forces, who only in war have significance; but our aristocracy, who think that war will pay Phoenician debts and give them property." "Meanwhile earth-tillers are fainting beneath an avalanche of labor, and public workmen are revolting against demands of overseers," added Pentuer.
This fire, which flows down its sides in various directions and over an immense stretch of country, ruins the labor of earth-tillers. "Well, Assyria is a mountain of that sort. For whole ages calm and quiet reign in that region, till all on a sudden a tempest bursts out there, great armies pour forth from it and annihilate peaceful neighbors.
Earth-tillers gave him willingly all explanations concerning changes in the form of land because of inundations, and at the same time they begged that the government might think out some easier way of raising water than by sweeps and buckets. They told too of the attack on the house of Prince Ramses, and said that they knew not who threw the stones.
"Formerly the temples gave us loans at fifteen or twenty per cent yearly, but since, as heir to the throne, Thou wert in the temple of Hator at Pi-Bast the priests have refused us every credit. "If they could they would expel us from Egypt, or, more gladly, they would destroy us. Ah, what we suffer because of them. The earth-tillers do what they like and whenever they like.
Delight took on, among common people, forms which at times were inappropriate. Reports began to circulate, it was unknown where they had originated, that the new pharaoh, whom the whole people loved instinctively, intended to occupy himself with improving the condition of earth-tillers, laborers, and even captives.
And when he ascended the throne I speak incorrectly, when he had barely stood on the first step of the throne, he tried to make the priests odious; he disturbed the earth-tillers and the warriors, and renewed vows with his friends the Phoenicians. "Dost thou, worthy Herhor, forget all this? And if Thou remember, dost Thou not understand the dangers which threaten us from this milksop?
On the fertile land of Goshen from each hill shot up a dark grove of acacias, sycamores, and tamarinds which from a distance looked like our lime-trees; among these were concealed villas with rows of short columns, or the yellow mud huts of earth-tillers.
I cannot even divine, therefore, where we could get thirty thousand talents." "But the treasury of the labyrinth." "That is a treasury of the gods, to be touched only at a moment when the state is in supreme need," replied Mefres. Ramses XIII boiled up with anger. "If earth-tillers do not need this sum, I do," said he, striking his fist on the arm of the chair.
"But do the nobles believe that?" "There are some who believe, but there are others who say directly that it is an intrigue of the priests against the pharaoh." "But if I wish indeed to improve the condition of earth-tillers?" "Thou wilt do, lord, that which pleases thee," answered Tutmosis. "Oh, I understand my position!" exclaimed Ramses.
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