Vulgar words in History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 9 (of 12) (Page 1)
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The recognised offering consisted of flowers, bread, fruit, and perfumes, but these were often accompanied, as in all ancient religions, by a bloody sacrifice; the sacrifice of a horse was considered the most efficacious, but an ox, a cow, a sheep, a camel, an ass, or a stag was frequently offered: in certain circumstances, especially when it was desired to conciliate the favour of the god of the underworld, a human victim, probably as a survival of very ancient rites was preferred.
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), his unfortunate wars in the Delta, the conquest of Egypt (342) and the reconstitution of the empire._ _The Eastern world: Elam, Urartu, the Syrian kingdoms, the ancient Semitic states decayed and decaying--Babylon in its decline--The Jewish state and its miseries--Nehemiah, Ezra--Egypt in the eyes of the Greeks: Sais, the Delta, the inhabitants of the marshes--Memphis, its monuments, its population--Travels in Upper Egypt: the Fayum, Khemmis, Thebes, Elephantine--The apparent vigour and actual feebleness of Egypt._ _Persia and its powerlessness to resist attack: the rise of Macedonia, Philippi --Arses (337) and Darius Codomannos (336)--Alexander the Great--The invasion of Asia--The battle of Granicus and the conquest of the Asianic peninsula--Issus, the siege of Tyre and of Gaza, the conquest of Egypt, the foundation of Alexandria--Arbela: the conquest of Babylon, Susa, and Ecbatana--The death of Darius and the last days of the old Eastern world._ [Illustration: 199.jpg PAGE IMAGE] [Page 200 and 201 need to be rescanned] CHAPTER II--THE LAST DAYS OF THE OLD EASTERN WORLD _The Median wars--The last native dynasties of Egypt--The Eastern world on the eve of the Macedonian conquest._ [Drawn by Boudier, from one of the sarcophagi of Sidon, now in the Museum of St. Irene.
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They delighted to hunt the bull, the wild boar, the deer, the wild ass, and the hare, as the Pharaohs or Assyrian kings of old had done; and they would track the lion to his lair and engage him single-handed; in fact, they held a strict monopoly in such conflicts, a law which punished with death any huntsman who had the impertinence to interpose between the monarch and his prey being only abolished by Artaxerxes.
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A bastard named Arsames, who might possibly have aspired to the crown, was assassinated by Ochus.
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On his arrival at Memphis, Ochus gave orders that an ass should be installed in the temple of Phtah, and have divine honours paid to it; he next had the bull Apis slaughtered and served up at a set banquet which he gave to his friends on taking possession of the White Wall.
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Here wide tracts of arid and treeless country were now to be seen covered with aromatic herbage, where the Scenite Arabs were wont to pursue the lion, wild ass, ostrich, bustard, antelope, and gazelle; a few abandoned forts, such as Korsortê, Anatho, and Is (Hit) marked the halting-places of armies on the banks of the Euphrates.
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He therefore poisoned Ochus, to avoid being assassinated or put to the torture, and placed on the throne Arses, the youngest of the king's sons, while he caused the remaining royal children to be put to death (336).
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His son Arses was at first content to be a docile instrument in the hands of Bagoas; but when the desire for independence came to him with the habitual exercise of power, and he began to chafe at his bonds, the eunuch sacrificed him to his own personal safety, and took his life as he had done that of his father in the preceding year (336).