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Amasis of Egypt1 mention

The Histories (Greek)

This was the end of Polycrates ' string of successes [as Amasis king of Egypt had forewarned him].

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in the texts

The HistoriesClassical · Greek

Egyptian pharaoh visited by Solon before his visit to Croesus

So for that reason, and to see the world, Solon went to visit Amasis in

book 1 ¶

It was Amasis also who made the law that every Egyptian declare his means of livelihood to the ruler of his district annually, and that omitting to do so or to prove that one had a legitimate livelihood be punishable with death.

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But when in spite of this Patarbemis insisted that Amasis obey the king's summons and go to him, Amasis answered that he had long been preparing to do just that, and Apries would find him above reproach, for he would present himself, and bring others.

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PoliorceticaClassical · Greek

A besieging king who attempted to mine under the walls of the Barcaeans and whose mines were detected by a bronze-shield device.

of Amasis besieging the Barcaeans, when he attempted to mine.

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PoliticsClassical · Greek

Historical (Egyptian) ruler whose anecdotal speech about a foot-bath is invoked as an analogy.

It is true that in most cases of republican government the ruler and the ruled interchange in turn (for they tend to be on in equal level in their nature and to have no difference at all), although nevertheless during the period when one is ruler and the other ruled they seek to have a distinction by means of insignia and titles and honors, just as Amasis made his speech about the foot-bath;

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RhetoricClassical · Greek

Figure whose contrasting reactions to his son's execution and a friend's misfortune illustrate the boundary between pity and terror.

This is why Amasis is said not to have wept when his son was led to execution, but did weep at the sight of a friend reduced to beggary, for the latter excited pity, the former terror.

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OrationsImperial · Greek

King of Egypt who reportedly substituted another corpse for his own to escape posthumous desecration by Cambyses.

For the Egyptians say that Amasis, long suspecting the harshness of Cambyses, hid his own corpse and substituted another in its stead, and that this was the one that fell into Cambyses' hands.

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But, O Egyptians and Cambyses, whether it was someone else who suffered these things or Amasis himself, it was a figure bloodless, fleshless, soulless.

oration 37 ¶

Vitae philosophorumImperial · Greek

Egyptian recipient of Polycrates' letter of introduction for Pythagoras.

Now he was in Egypt when Polycrates sent him a letter of introduction to Amasis;

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TimaeusClassical · Greek

King associated with the Egyptian city of Sais.

The chief city in this district is Sais—the home of King Amasis, —the founder of which, they say, is a goddess whose Egyptian name is Neith, and in Greek, as they assert, Athena.

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De recta ratione audiendiImperial · Greek

Egyptian king who tested Bias by asking him to send the best and worst portions of a sacrifice.

And Bias of old, being ordered by Amasis to send him the best and withal the worst part of the sacrifice, sent the tongue;

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Septem sapientium conviviumImperial · Greek

King of Egypt, engaged in a wisdom-contest with the king of Ethiopia, who writes to Bias for help resolving the Ethiopian's riddle and reports the Ethiopian's answers to his own philosophical questions.

— Amasis the king of Egypt, to Bias, the wisest of the Grecians, greeting.

septem sapientium convivium ¶

by and by Thales desires Niloxenus to inform him if Amasis approved of these answers.

septem sapientium convivium ¶

But your friend Amasis was more gentle and civil in his queries;

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