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Updated: May 18, 2025
The calm answer mollified Mentezufis, so the priest did not remind the prince of the maneuvers of the previous year when he left the army in the same way and incurred the pharaoh's disfavor. At that moment Patrokles approached them with great uproar. The Grecian general was drunk again and called from afar to the viceroy, "See, heir, what the holy Mentezufis has done.
The seriousness with which Mentezufis had thought fit to lay bare a small part of the secrets long known to Ramses filled him with contempt and delight also. "This trickster," thought the prince, "has not an inkling in his heart that I know all their villainy." "The worthy Sargon and the revered Istubar," continued Mentezufis, "will go to Memphis to kiss the feet of his holiness.
"Those wretches fight desperately," said an old officer of the suite to Ramses. "It is high time that Mentezufis were here." The prince summoned the leader of the Asiatic cavalry. "But look to the right," said he; "there must be a bend there." "Go cautiously so as not to trample our warriors and attack those dogs in their central column, on the flank."
"Silver tablets inscribed with agreements will not guard boundaries unless spears and swords stand behind them." "But who has told thee, worthiness, that they will not stand on our land?" "Thou thyself. One hundred and twenty thousand men must yield before three hundred thousand. Were Assyrians to come here, Egypt would be turned into a desert." Mentezufis eyes flashed.
Deep silence followed. "Young man," retorted Mefres, with kindly irony, "dost suppose that Osiris could not have seven fingers if it pleased him?" "Of course he could!" said the other priests. "Speak on, renowned Pentuer," said Mentezufis.
Mentezufis lighted a torch and placed on a table before the statue of the god a papyrus on which was written an act of the following contents: In view of dangers threatening the state, the power of the secret council passes into the hands of Herhor with whom are associated as assistants the supreme judge and Mefres.
FROM the moment when the troops of Lower Egypt marched out of Pi-Bast, the prophet, Mentezufis, who accompanied the prince, received and sent away dispatches daily. One correspondence he conducted with the minister Herhor; Mentezufis sent reports to Memphis touching the advance of the troops, and the activity of the viceroy; of this activity he did not conceal his admiration.
"I take the gods to witness that Thou dost astonish us, worthiness," cried Mentezufis. "The shades of the pharaohs would be more astonished if they heard that in this same Egypt in which the power of the pharaoh is hampered, some Chaldean trickster is influencing the fate of the nation." "I do not believe my own ears," replied Mentezufis. "What dost Thou say of some Chaldean?"
"Thou didst surround them on all sides, the soldiers did the rest, well yes and the worthy Mentezufis. Even inscriptions on the tombs of the most famous pharaohs do not mention such a crushing of the enemies of Egypt." "Go to sleep, Tutmosis; I am wearied," interrupted the prince, feeling that pride was beginning to rise to his head. "Then have I won such a victory? Impossible!" thought he.
"Thou wert not in camp, worthiness," replied Mentezufis, "hence responsibility falls not on thee for that deed: while I observe our military laws, which command to destroy traitorous warriors. The man who served his holiness once and joins his enemies afterward is to be slain immediately that is the law." "But if I had been here?"
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