the daughter of
Acrisios, the rulers of the Dorians will prove to be Egyptians by direct
descent..

54. Thus I have traced the descent according to the account given by the
Hellenes; but as the story is reported which the Persians tell, Perseus
himself was an Assyrian and became a Hellene, whereas the ancestors of
Perseus were not Hellenes; and as for the ancestors of Acrisios, who
(according to this account) belonged not to Perseus in any way by
kinship, they say that these were, as the Hellenes report, Egyptians..

55. Let it suffice to have said so much about these matters; and as to
the question how and by what exploits being Egyptians they received the
sceptres of royalty over the Dorians, we will omit these things, since
others have told about them; but the things with which other narrators
have not dealt, of these I will make mention.

56. These are the royal rights which have been given by the Spartans
to their kings, namely, two priesthoods, of Zeus Lakedaimon and Zeus
Uranios; 37 and the right of making war against whatsoever land they
please, and that no man of the Spartans shall hinder this right, or
if he do, he shall be subject to the curse; and that when they go on
expeditions the kings shall go out first and return last; that a hundred
picked men shall be their guard upon expeditions; and that they shall
use in their goings forth to war as many cattle as they desire, and take
both the hides and the backs of all that are sacrificed..

57. These are their privileges in war; and in peace moreover things have
been assigned to them as follows:--if any sacrifice is performed at the
public charge, it is the privilege of the kings to sit down at the feast
before all others, and that the attendants shall begin with them first,
and serve to each of them a portion of everything double of that which
is given to the other guests, and that they shall have the first pouring
of libations and the hides of the animals slain in sacrifice; that on
every new moon and seventh day of the month there shall be delivered at
the public charge to each one of these a full-grown victim in the temple
of Apollo, and a measure 38 of barley-groats and a Laconian "quarter"
39 of wine; and that at all the games they shall have seats of honour
specially set apart for them: moreover it is their privilege to appoint
as protectors of strangers 40 whomsoever they will of the citizens, and
to choose each two "Pythians:" now the Pythians are m