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Updated: May 26, 2025
In 655 Psamtik I reunited and resurrected her while his overlord Assurbanipal was wrecking his Assurbanipal's empire elsewhere; thirteen decades afterwards, in 525, she fell before Cambyses. Thirteen decades, nearly, of Persian rule followed, with interruptions of revolt, before she regained her independence in 404; stealing, you may say, the nine years short from the weakness of Persia.
With an ironical smile Psamtik sat watching this scene the pleased faces of Amasis, Croesus and Gyges, the meaning glances of the Egyptians, and the contented looks with which Aristomachus gazed on the young heroes.
If the foreigners make you unclean, they won't let me kiss you any more. Baner sends you a hearty greeting, and my son-in-law told me to say he had found out that Psamtik, the crown-prince, and your rival, Petammon, had been the sole causes of this execrable deed.
"Thine eyes flash, Psamtik! that pleaseth me not. The Athenian must die, for he has offended the gods; but though he that condemns must let justice have her way, he should have no pleasure in the death of the condemned; rather should he mourn. Now speak; didst thou obtain aught further?" "The king declared unto me to what house Nitetis belongs." "And further naught?"
"And the prince Psamtik?" "On my appealing to him by his father's munificence, he turned his back on me, and answered with a bitter laugh: 'Collect money for the destruction of your temple, and I am ready to double my father's donation!" "The wretch!" "Say rather: the true Egyptian! to Psamtik everything foreign is an abomination." "How much have the Greeks in Naukratis contributed?"
Psamtik suits his father's present mood very well. It is true that Tachot is ill, but she prays and sacrifices with her father all the more for that; and as to Nitetis, you and I both know that her death will not touch him very closely." "I really do not understand you." "Of course not, so long as you fancy that I believe your beautiful patient to be Amasis' daughter."
The forms of Amasis, who had laughed at and exiled him, of Psamtik and the priests, who had burnt his works, stood near him; they were heavily fettered and besought mercy at his hands. His lips moved, but this was not the place in which to utter the cruel words which rose to them.
"Now that you are leaving, I shall be really indispensable to our friends here. Amasis is old; when Psamtik comes to the throne we shall have infinitely greater difficulties to contend with than heretofore. I must remain and fight on in the fore-front of our battle for the freedom and welfare of the Hellenic race. Let them call my efforts unwomanly if they will.
Herod. Cicero. Tuscul. "If I have ever been dear to you, Cambyses if my counsels have been of any use, permit me as a last favor to say a few more words. Psamtik knows the causes that rendered us foes to each other. Ye all, whose esteem is worth so much to me, shall know them too. This man's father placed me in his son's stead at the head of the troops which had been sent to Cyprus.
Psamtik went at once from his father's apartments to the temple of the goddess Neith. At the entrance he asked for the high-priest and was begged by one of the inferior priests to wait, as the great Neithotep was at that moment praying in the holiest sanctuary of the exalted Queen of Heaven. "The way through these temples is clearly indicated, no digression is allowed, no error possible.
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