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Updated: June 12, 2025
Taking things as they were, the new ruler had interfered with no one thus far, hence the cause of grief for dignitaries lay in those same reports which delighted common people. The nomarchs and the nobility grieved at the thought that their earth-tillers might be idle fifty days in a year, and, what was worse, possess land, though even of an extent on which a tomb might be erected.
"May he live through eternity, our lord, Ramses XIII, the guardian of oppressed laborers!" "But look!" called out some voice from afar, "the cattle are coming from pasture, as if evening were near." "What cattle! Go on against the priests!" "Hei, ye!" cried the giant at the temple gate. "Open to us of your own will, so that we may know what the high priests and the nomarchs are counseling!"
The priests implored Amon for long life to Ramses XII and death to Phoenicians, who interfered with their interests; the nomarchs implored the gods to preserve the Phoenicians and let Ramses XIII ascend the throne at the earliest, for he would curb priestly tyranny.
He stood before the gate of the temple and cried with an immense voice to the people, "Do ye know, right believers, what the high priests and the nomarchs are preparing here? They wish to force his holiness, Ramses XIII, to deprive laborers of a barley cake a day, and to impose new taxes on the people, a drachma each man.
After them advanced nomarchs in robes bordered with a purple stripe, and on their heads were coronets. The procession was closed by priests with shaven heads, and wearing panther skins over their shoulders. The delegates entered the great hall of the pharaoh's palace where there were seven benches, one behind another, the highest for priests, the lowest for earth-tillers.
Apollonius was made prefect of Libya, of which district Parætonium was the capital, and Cleomenes prefect of Arabia at Heroopolis, in guard of that frontier. Orders were given to all these generals that justice was to be administered by the Egyptian nomarchs according to the common law or ancient customs of the land.
"Thou art thinking of dangerous things," said the adjutant, in a whisper. "But how often hast Thou thyself grieved over the luxuries of the pharaoh's court and of the nomarchs?" inquired the priest in astonishment. "Quiet, quiet! We will talk of this, but not now." In spite of the sand the military engines, drawn each by two bullocks, moved in the desert more speedily than along the highway.
He threw bridges of boats over the Nile at the ford below Memphis, and also over the several branches of the river. He divided the country into two nomarchies or judgeships, and to fill these two offices of nomarchs or chief judges, the highest civil offices in the kingdom, he chose Doloaspis and Petisis, two Egyptians.
"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.
Thou hast asked the nomarchs, and though they explained according to their power, Thou wert not satisfied, though the highest human wisdom belongs to those dignitaries.
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