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Updated: July 7, 2025
"The Prince of Libya judges all disputes himself, especially among the wealthy, and gives so much time to them that he cannot attend to his own business. So at his side whole bands of robbers rise up; these we exterminate. "Were there in Phoenicia a single ruler who knew what was happening and who commanded in all parts, that country would not pay us one uten of tribute.
Strange man, he would be glad to turn the state bottom upwards, so far as relates to the good of earth tillers, but he would not venture to seize a high priest and lead him forth to prison. With the utmost composure he commands me to renounce half my income, but I am sure that he would not dare to take a copper uten out of the labyrinth." The pharaoh smiled, and again he meditated.
"Perhaps it would be better if he paid a fine, an uten or a drachma, whatever is commanded, worthiness," said the chief steward. "Yes; but the worst offender might be beaten." "I make bold to offer a remark, worthiness," said the steward in a low tone, inclining continually, "that the earth-workers, roused by some unknown person, really did talk for a time about decrease of rent.
"Ramses the Great obeyed the gods; for this cause there are inscriptions praising him in all the temples. But Menes, the first pharaoh of Egypt, was a destroyer of order, and thanks only to the fatherly kindness of the priests that his name is still remembered, though I would not give one brass uten on this, that the mummy of Menes exists."
See to it, therefore, that my bags and my casket are returned to me, for in the opposite case I shall complain of thee to that same chief of tea who is eating the goose which was intended for thee." "Well, but permit me to pay the thieves only fifteen per cent of the value of the things," cried the host. "Thou hast no right to pay." "Give them even thirty drachmas." "Not an uten."
"I must find his children, ransom them, and rent a bit of laud to them." "But Thou must do this with great secrecy," remarked Tutmosis, "or all slaves will begin to hang themselves, and no Phoenician will lend us, their lords, a copper uten." "Jest not. Hadst Thou seen that man's face, sleep would be absent to- night from thy eyes as it is from mine."
So a big pair of balances is brought out; the "uten" are heaped into one scale, and in the other are piled weights in the shape of bulls' heads. Finally, he is satisfied, and picks up his bag of rings; but the wily merchant is not done with him yet.
"My wife and daughter cried with the others, 'May he live through eternity! I sprang into the water and threw a garland at thy barge, worthiness; for this they promised an uten. When Thou wert pleased graciously to enter the city of Atribis, I approached to throw myself under the horses and stop thy chariot." The prince laughed.
Very frequently he described the perversity of women, and once, to show how great the power is which ye wield over men, he told me the following history: "A certain scribe, young and indigent, who had not an uten in his purse, who had nothing save a barley cake, traveled down from Thebes to Lower Egypt while seeking for employment.
Do I hate their wisdom, even such barren wisdom as that of investigating the course of the stars which move in the heavens without our aid, and do not enrich us one uten? Neither their wisdom nor their piety troubles me, but the wretchedness of Egypt, which within is growing weak from hunger, and without is afraid of any threat from Assyria.
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