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To the Ionians and Carians who had lent him their assistance
Psammetichus assigned as abodes two places opposite to each other, one
on either side of the Nile, which received the name of "the
Camps." He also made good all the splendid promises by which he had
gained their support; and further, he intrusted to their care certain
Egyptian children whom they were to teach the language of the Greeks.
These children, thus instructed, became the parents of the entire
class of interpreters in Egypt. The Ionians and Carians occupied
for many years the places assigned them by Psammetichus, which lay
near the sea, a little below the city of Bubastis, on the Pelusiac
mouth of the Nile. King Amasis long afterwards removed the Greeks
hence, and settled them at Memphis to guard him against the native
Egyptians. From the date of the original settlement of these persons
in Egypt, we Greeks, through our intercourse with them, have
acquired an accurate knowledge of the several events in Egyptian
history, from the reign of Psammetichus downwards; but before his
time no foreigners had ever taken up their residence in that land. The
docks where their vessels were laid up and the ruins of their
habitations were still to be seen in my day at the place where they
dwelt originally, before they were removed by Amasis. Such was the
mode by which Psammetichus became master of Egypt.
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