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their Amity was an annual Sacrifice they made together to Eulcan, when by Mistake there were but eleven Gold Cups instead of twelve Psammiticus on this made his libation in his brasen Helmet, the others remembring the Oracle that He among them who should ever make a libation in a brass Vessel should overcome the Eleven others, banish'd him to the Moors in Ægypt; where he liv'd till some Greeks were cast in the Shore these He caress'd rais'd Soldiers & put them at the head of them then attack'd the Eleven Kings & remain'd sole Master of Ægypt; no a recompence to the Larians & Ionians what had thus assisted him, He gave them prossessions in Ægypt, unclear which till then all foreigners had been debarr'd & gave these he Educations many of the Ægyptian Children from which time Nation & the Greeks were much concern'd together, but the Ægyptians grew soon so disgusted at the Greeks on Psammiticus's placing the latter of the right Wing of his Army when He attack'd Palestine, that they left him to the number of 200.000. & retire'd into Æthiopia, where they were well settl'd; Psammiticus first conquest in Pulestine was the Town of Azot, the Siege of which took him up 29. Years.

On his death Nechaos his Son Succeeded Him, who undertook to join the Nihle with the Red Sea, the