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Updated: May 18, 2025
Meanwhile the Libyans, pushing back all the time, had ascended the sandy hills on the south, and after them Egyptians. From out the cloud came horsemen every minute and rushed to Ramses. "Mentezufis has taken them in the rear!" cried one. "Two hundred have surrendered!" cried another. "Patrokles has taken them in the rear!"
Let them take the body of their compatriot, if they think that after death he will be happier under protection of their own rites." The prince sent an officer straightway with the needful order, but he detained Mentezufis. Evidently he wished to say something to him, though he hesitated. After some silence Ramses asked suddenly,
The holy Mentezufis, who, as a representative of Herhor, understood the military art well, was overcome by astonishment. "Ye know," said he to Sem and Mefres, "that I do not like the heir to the throne, for I have discovered his perversity and malice. But Osiris be my witness that that young man is a born leader.
"While I sleep among the Greeks, I am not afraid of the vengeance of night gods. And while I am on the alert they will do nothing in the daytime." "Go to sleep! go among thy Greeks, drunkard," said Mentezufis, "lest a thunderbolt fall on our heads because of thy offenses."
Mentezufis, standing near the elevation, turned toward Ramses. "Prince," whispered he, "the Lord Sargon is waiting for a gracious answer." "Then answer him that I do not understand by what right he speaks to me as if he were my equal in dignity." Mentezufis was confused, which still more angered the prince, whose lips began to tremble; and again his eyes flashed.
"So Hiram was right in saying that they deceive us," thought he. "I am certain now that our priests have made a treaty with the Chaldeans which his holiness will be forced to sanction. Has anyone ever heard of a thing so monstrous? He, the lord of the living, and of the western world, must sign a treaty invented by intriguers!" Breath failed him. "The holy Mentezufis has betrayed himself.
"May the worms gnaw thy body," said Mentezufis, as he poured melted pitch into the opening. "Dogs jackals!" groaned the voice. "May thy heart be consumed by fire and its ashes be hurled into the desert," said the next priest, repeating the ceremony. "O gods! is it possible to suffer as I do?" was the answer from beneath the pavement.
"Thou wilt answer me, for Thou art filled with wisdom, of which Thou art the servant. But consider what I say Thou knowest why his holiness sent me hither." "He sent thee, prince, to become familiar with the wealth of the country and its institutions," said Mentezufis. "I am obeying. I examine the nomarchs, I look at the country and the people.
Therefore, though I sign a treaty, I shall tell my lord that behind the sick pharaoh and the wise priests there is in Egypt a young heir to the throne who is a lion and a bull in one person, a man on whose lips there is honey, but in whose heart lies a thunderbolt." "And Thou wilt tell an untruth," interrupted Mentezufis.
The holy fathers, Mefres and Mentezufis, communicated to him other information which had come to them from Memphis: The Chaldean priest and miracle-worker, Beroes, was received in the subterranean parts of the temple of Set by the priest Osochar, who, when giving his daughter in marriage two months later, had presented her with rich jewels and bought a good estate for her and her husband.
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