Egypt

Io and others were seized and thrown into the ship, which then sailed away for Egypt.

In this way, the Persians say (and not as the Greeks), was how Io came to Egypt, and this, according to them, was the first wrong that was done.

For this is the nature of the land of Egypt:

But when I met with the last (though in power he was the first), I found rest, having tracked him down where he lay hidden in Egypt.

For this reason Abraham too, when Sarah was jealous of Hagar for outshining her — choosing, as it were, only the useful part of worldly philosophy — said, "Behold, the handmaid is in your hands;

and she rightly thought it fitting that the man who already had the season for advance should first lie with worldly education (and Egypt is allegorized as the world), and afterward come to her too, according to divine providence, and beget Isaac.

So once again I had to go to Egypt, a long and grievous road, and not even there did I obtain what I sought.

According to the practices of the land of Egypt, in which you dwelt, you shall not do;

But now I hear that in Egypt there is such virtue among men;

For even though Moses, somewhat later, seems the first to have dedicated the God of the world in the temple of his own writings, the birthdays of His recognition are not therefore to be reckoned from the Pentateuch — since the whole pen of Moses does not establish the knowledge of the Creator, but, beginning from the very origin, recounts that He is to be reckoned from Paradise and Adam, not from Egypt and Moses.

and elsewhere, "And I will arrange a testament, not such as I arranged for your fathers, when I led them out of the land of Egypt.

unjustly that Egypt — most foul, superstitious, and moreover the persecutor of its guest people — was struck with a tenfold chastisement.

As for the other five ships, they were taken by winds and seas to Egypt, where Menelaos gathered much gold and substance among people of an alien speech.

Polybos lived in Egyptian Thebes, which is the richest city in the whole world;

I again stationed my ships in the heaven-fed stream of Egypt, and offered hecatombs that were full and sufficient.

a noble instance of which we find in the history of Joseph, who governed Egypt under the auspices of Pharaoh.

There have been indeed, it cannot be denied, happy instances where the sentence of death was changed for that of perpetual labour, a practice, as we are informed by Diodorus, followed by Sabacon, king of Egypt, a prince renowned for his piety.

This was a received opinion in ancient times, as we find from the language of Aeschylus, in whose Tragedy of the Suppliants, the King of Argos, addressing a number of the daughters of Danaus, on their coming from Egypt, says, “If the sons of Egypt exercise controul over you, maintaining that they are authorised to do so by the law of the state, as being the nearest allied by blood, who can resist them?

I, then, as I learned from one of the priests in Egypt, a very old man at Onuphis, who laughed at the Greeks for many things as knowing nothing true about most matters, and most of all using this as proof, that they are persuaded that Troy was taken by Agamemnon and that Helen, while living with Menelaus, fell in love with Alexander;

And saying these things you nonetheless say that Homer's poetry is true, and hearing that Stesichorus in his later song says that Helen did not sail anywhere at all, and others that Helen was seized by Alexander but came here to us in Egypt—and the matter being thus disputed and full of much ignorance, not even so can you suspect the deception.

And Menelaus did not come to the Peloponnese at all, but remained in Egypt.

the queen of Egypt used her own beasts;

Most of the Egyptians believe in four gods:

For that Serapis was once called Joseph, of the race of the holy ones.

they ward off pestilence from Egypt when they kill and consume the winged snakes borne in from the wastes of Libya by the African wind, so that those serpents harm not by their bite while alive nor by their stench when dead.

The Nile waters Egypt, and, when it has held it through the whole summer overwhelmed and covered, then retires and leaves the fields, softened and silted, for sowing.

yes, and let the shrines of the Egyptians and the necromancies of the Etruscans be handed over to darkness.

Others say that Melampus son of Amythaon brought over from Egypt to Greece the festivals of Deo, a hymned mourning.

Whether, then, the mythical goats teach that the Phrygians are most ancient, or the poets who record the Arcadians as older than the moon, or those who dream that the Egyptians first brought forth from this earth both gods and men — yet not one of these existed before this universe;

The country called India lies far from Egypt, being large and densely peopled.

And when in Egypt too the monasteries began to be established and the multitudes of monks to be gathered together, and the fame of their virtue and their angelic manner of life spread to the ends of the inhabited world and came also to the Indians, it stirred these as well to the like zeal, so that many of them, leaving all things behind, took to the deserts and, in a mortal body, took up the way …

For these, being descendants of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, sojourned in Egypt.

These are the gods who brought us out of the land of Egypt.

This suffering of this destruction was accomplished within the times of the seventy weeks, under Tiberius Caesar, in the consulship of Rubellius Geminus and Fufius Geminus, in the month of March, at the time of the Passover, on the eighth day before the Kalends of April, on the first day of the unleavened bread, on which they killed the lamb at evening, as had been commanded by Moses.

For Israel, which had been known to God, and which had been exalted by him in Egypt, and was carried across the Red Sea, and which was fed in the wilderness with manna for forty years — brought to the likeness of eternity, neither defiled with human sufferings nor fed on the foods of this world, but fed on manna, the bread of angels, and bound to God by enough of his benefits — forgot the Lord and …

The cuckoo was king of Egypt and of the whole of Phoenicia.

so he will probably wish rather to have been even in Egypt than to have judged badly.

Having arranged the constitution in the manner described, since people kept coming to him and pestering him about the laws, criticizing some points and questioning others, and wishing neither to disturb these things nor to incur enmity by remaining, he made a journey abroad, for trade and at the same time for sightseeing, to Egypt, saying that he would not return for ten years.

Bias, then, to his son setting out for Egypt and asking what he might do that would most gratify him, said:

It is said, then, that even that great Moses, whose name for wisdom is greatest among all men, first trained his mind in the learning of the Egyptians, and so came to the contemplation of Him Who Is.

The war for supremacy between Cæsar and Pompey which had for some time been gradually growing more certain, broke out in 49 bc, when Cæsar led his army across the Rubicon, and Cicero after much irresolution threw in his lot with Pompey, who was overthrown the next year in the battle of Pharsalus and later murdered in Egypt.

For unless it did this, why did Plato traverse Egypt, that he might receive numbers and the heavenly things from the barbarian priests?

but you have heard, I believe, Tubero, that after the death of Socrates, Plato journeyed first into Egypt to learn, and afterward into Italy and Sicily, that he might thoroughly master the discoveries of Pythagoras;

This Dionysodorus, men of Athens, and his partner Parmeniscus came to us last year in the month Metageitnion, and said that they desired to borrow money on their ship on the terms that she should sail to Egypt and from Egypt to Rhodes or Athens, and they agreed to pay the interest for the voyage to either one of these ports.

Afterwards, however, men of the jury, when the ships from Sicily had arrived, and the prices of grain here were falling, and their ship had reached Egypt, the defendant straightway sent a man to Rhodes to inform his partner Parmeniscus of the state of things here, well knowing that his ship would be forced to touch at Rhodes.

All these men, I would have you know, men of the jury, were underlings and confederates of Cleomenes, the former ruler of Egypt, who from the time he received the government did no small harm to your state, or rather to the rest of the Greeks as well, by buying up grain for resale and fixing its price, and in this he had these men as his confederates.

How skilfully, as your commander, he drew up your ranks at Thebes to face the whole power of the Peloponnese, how he slew Gorgopas in Aegina, what trophies he set up in Cyprus and afterwards in Egypt, how he visited, I might almost say, every land, yet nowhere disgraced our city’s name or his own—of all these exploits it is by no means easy to speak adequately, and it would be a great shame if my …

suppose that he played false when he went on embassy to Egypt;

I am surprised to see the same men urging the city, in the interests of the Egyptians, to oppose the King of Persia, but dreading him where the Rhodian democracy is concerned.

But if the reports are true and he has failed in all his attempts, she must argue that this island would be of no use to him at present-which is true enough—but might serve as a fortress to overawe Caria and check any move on her part.

I think that if the King’s designs in Egypt were meeting with any success, Artemisia would make a big effort to secure Rhodes for him, not from any goodwill towards him, but because, while he is in her neighborhood, she would like to put him under a great obligation, so that he may give her as cordial a recognition as possible.

—was the theme of his speech, while at his side stood his two brothers-in-law, the very sight of whom is enough to set you in an uproar,—the disgusting Nicias, who went to Egypt as the hireling of Chabrias, and the abominable Cyrebio, the unmasked harlequin of the pageants.