Book 2
99.4
Then, when this first king Min had made dry land of what he thus cut off, he first founded in it that city which is now called Mit Rahina [31.25,29.85] (inhabited place), Giza, Upper Egypt, Egypt, Africa Memphis (for even Mit Rahina [31.25,29.85] (inhabited place), Giza, Upper Egypt, Egypt, Africa Memphis lies in the narrow part of Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa Egypt ), and outside of it he dug a lake from the river to its north and west (for the Nahr an- Nil [31.1,30.166] (river), Africa Nile itself bounds it on the east); and secondly, he built in it the great and most noteworthy temple of Hephaestus.
100.1
After him came three hundred and thirty kings, whose names the priests recited from a papyrus roll. In all these many generations there were eighteen Ethiopian kings, and one queen, native to the country; the rest were all Egyptian men.
100.2
The name of the queen was the same as that of the Babylonian princess, Nitocris. She, to avenge her brother (he was king of Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa Egypt and was slain by his subjects, who then gave Nitocris the sovereignty) put many of the Egyptians to death by treachery.
100.3
She built a spacious underground chamber; then, with the pretence of inaugurating it, but with quite another intent in her mind, she gave a great feast, inviting to it those Egyptians whom she knew to have had the most complicity in her brother's murder; and while they feasted, she let the river in upon them by a vast secret channel.
100.4
This was all that the priests told of her, except that when she had done this she cast herself into a chamber full of hot ashes, to escape vengeance.
101.1
But of the other kings they related no achievement or act of great note, except of Moeris, the last of them.
