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The wickedness of Cheops reached to such a pitch that, when he had
spent all his treasures and wanted more, he sent his daughter to the
stews, with orders to procure him a certain sum - how much I cannot
say, for I was not told; she procured it, however, and at the same
time, bent on leaving a monument which should perpetuate her own
memory, she required each man to make her a present of a stone towards
the works which she contemplated. With these stones she built the
pyramid which stands midmost of the three that are in front of the great
pyramid, measuring along each side a hundred and fifty feet.
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