Book 2
166.1
The Kalasiries are from the districts of Thebes [32.666,25.683] (deserted settlement), Qina, Upper Egypt, Egypt, Africa Thebes , +Tall Bastah [31.516,30.566] (deserted settlement), Ash Sharqiyah, Lower Egypt, Egypt, Africa Bubastis , Aphthis, +San al-Hajar al-Qibliyah [31.866,30.966] (deserted settlement), Ash Sharqiyah, Lower Egypt, Egypt, Africa Tanis , Mendes, Sebennys, +Wannina (inhabited place), Al Qalyubiyah, Lower Egypt, Egypt, Africa Athribis , Pharbaïthis, Thmuis, Onuphis, Anytis, Myecphoris (this last is in an island opposite the city of +Tall Bastah [31.516,30.566] (deserted settlement), Ash Sharqiyah, Lower Egypt, Egypt, Africa Bubastis )—
166.2
from all of these; their number, at its greatest, attained to two hundred and fifty thousand men. These too may practise no trade but war, which is their hereditary calling.
167.1
Now whether this, too, the Greeks have learned from the Egyptians, I cannot confidently judge. I know that in Thrace (region (general)), Europe Thrace and Scythia (region (general)), Asia Scythia and Iran [53,32] (nation), Asia Persia and Lydia [27.516,38.683] (region (general)), Turkey, Asia Lydia and nearly all foreign countries, those who learn trades are held in less esteem than the rest of the people, and those who have least to do with artisans' work, especially men who are free to practise the art of war, are highly honored.
167.2
This much is certain: that this opinion, which is held by all Greeks and particularly by the Lacedaemonians, is of foreign origin. It is in Corinth [22.9083,37.9083] (Perseus) Corinth that artisans are held in least contempt.
168.1
The warriors were the only Egyptians, except the priests, who had special privileges: for each of them an untaxed plot of twelve acres was set apart. This acre is a square of a hundred Egyptian cubits each way, the Egyptian cubit being equal to the Samian.
