1. Herodotus, Histories, 1.5, 1.29, 1.30, 1.31, 1.32, 1.33, 1.34, 1.90, 1.91, 1.127, 3.4, 3.40, 3.41, 3.42, 3.43, 7.10.ε, 7.17, 7.18, 7.46, 8.109 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Mikalson (2003) 151 | 3.4. It so happened, too, that something else occurred contributing to this campaign. There was among Amasis' mercenaries a man who was a Halicarnassian by birth, a clever man and a good soldier, whose name was Phanes. ,This Phanes had some grudge against Amasis, and fled from Egypt aboard ship, hoping to talk to Cambyses. Since he was a man much admired among the mercenaries and had an exact knowledge of all Egyptian matters, Amasis was anxious to catch him, and sent a trireme with his most trusted eunuch to pursue him. This eunuch caught him in Lycia but never brought him back to Egypt , for Phanes was too clever for him. ,He made his guards drunk and so escaped to Persia . There he found Cambyses prepared to set out against Egypt , but in doubt as to his march, how he should cross the waterless desert; so Phanes showed him what was Amasis' condition and how he should march; as to this, he advised Cambyses to send and ask the king of the Arabians for a safe passage. |
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