And They Being
Settled In Egypt, We Who Are Hellenes Know By Intercourse With Them
The Certainty Of All That Which Happened In Egypt Beginning From King
Psammetichos And Afterwards; For These Were The First Men Of Foreign
Tongue Who Settled In Egypt:
And in the land from which they were
removed there still remained down to my time the sheds where their
ships were drawn up and the ruins of their houses.
Thus then Psammetichos obtained Egypt: and of the Oracle which is in
Egypt I have made mention often before this, and now I give an account
of it, seeing that it is worthy to be described. This Oracle which is
in Egypt is sacred to Leto, and it is established in a great city near
that mouth of the Nile which is called Sebennytic, as one sails up the
river from the sea; and the name of this city where the Oracle is
found is Buto, as I have said before in mentioning it. In this Buto
there is a temple of Apollo and Artemis; and the temple-house of Leto,
in which the Oracle is, is both great in itself and has a gateway of
the height of ten fathoms: but that which caused me most to marvel of
the things to be seen there, I will now tell. There is in this sacred
enclosure a house of Leto made of one single stone upon the top, the
cornice measuring four cubits. This house then of all the things that
were to be seen by me in that temple is the most marvellous, and among
those which come next is the island called Chemmis.
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