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"How is that?" burst out the prince. "For my journey his holiness assigned two hundred talents in gold and goods. Can it be that all this is expended?" "Yes," answered Tutmosis. "How is that?" cried the viceroy. "Did not the nomarchs entertain us all the way?" "Yes, but we paid them for doing so." "Then they are rogues and robbers if they receive us as guests and then plunder us."
"Since Osiris the pharaoh," continued the nomarch, "cannot himself be occupied in the management of the country, he has appointed us nomarchs, who come of his blood, to watch over his property." "That is true," said Ramses. "Sometimes even the sun god becomes incarnate in a nomarch and begins a new dynasty. Thus rose the dynasties of Memphis, Elephantina, Thebes, and Ksoi."
Stones and mud were hurled more and more frequently at the gods guarding boundaries, and at times these gods were thrown down even. Fear fell on priests and nomarchs as well as their adherents.
"Sometime I will reward them." "Now," continued Tutmosis, "we take from thy treasury, for want is oppressing us; the nomarchs do the same. If they had means they would give feasts and receptions at their own cost; but as they have not the means they receive recompense. Wilt Thou call them rogues now?" "I condemned them too harshly. Anger, like smoke, covered my eyes," said Ramses.
But that faithful friend and servant divined that connected with the arrival of Sargon were some great hidden interests of state which the priests alone had decided. For a certain time all the Egyptian aristocracy, nomarchs, higher officials, and leaders had been whispering among themselves very quietly, yes, very quietly, that important events were approaching.
It must be added that when common people speak of injustice and rents, disturbances follow; and either a foreign enemy attacks our weakened state, or Egypt is divided into as many parts as there are nomarchs. Finally, judge for thyself, is it proper that any man's name should be mentioned oftener than the pharaoh's, and that any man should stand between the people and our lord?
Do not listen to the advice of this proud caste alone, but read every petition yourself, and, by appointing Nomarchs devoted to the king and beloved by the people, make yourself acquainted with the needs and wishes of the Egyptian nation. It is not difficult to govern well, if you are aware of the state of feeling in your land. Choose fit men to fill the offices of state.
In pay for those foreign goods which have destroyed our artisans as locusts destroy vegetation. "Among things obtained through Phoenicians for his holiness, the nomarchs, and the scribes, gold has the first place. "This kind of commerce is the most accurate picture of calamities inflicted on Egypt by Asia.
A couple of hours after sunset the high priests and their most faithful adherents assembled in the temple of Ptah. The worthy Herhor was there; so were Mefres, Mentezufis, three nomarchs, and the highest judge. "Terrible times!" said the judge, "I know to a certainty that the pharaoh wishes to rouse a rabble to attack temples."
He wished to see Sarah, to scold, then embrace her and give her presents. But when he returned to his part of the palace he found there two nomarchs from Lower Egypt who had come to report on their provinces, and when he had heard them out, he was wearied. Besides, he was to hold an evening reception and did not wish to be late in beginning. "And again I shall not be with her," thought he.
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