at city of Syria: and the dress which he
wore when he made these conquests he dedicated to Apollo, sending it to
Branchidai of the Milesians. After this, having reigned in all sixteen
years, he brought his life to an end, and handed on the kingdom to
Psammis his son.

While this Psammis was king of Egypt, there came to him men sent by the
Eleians, who boasted that they ordered the contest at Olympia in the
most just and honourable manner possible and thought that not even the
Egyptians, the wisest of men, could find out anything besides, to be
added to their rules. Now when the Eleians came to Egypt and said that
for which they had come, then this king called together those of the
Egyptians who were reputed the wisest, and when the Egyptians had come
together they heard the Eleians tell of all that which it was their part
to do in regard to the contest; and when they had related everything,
they said that they had come to learn in addition anything which the
Egyptians might be able to find out besides, which was juster than this.
They then having consulted together asked the Eleians whether their own
citizens took part in the contest; and they said that it was permitted
to any one who desired it, to take part in the contest: upon which the
Egyptians said that in so ordering the games they had wholly missed the
mark of justice; for it could not be but that they would take part with
the man of their own State, if he was contending, and so act unfairly
to the stranger: but if they really desired, as they said, to order
the games justly, and if this was the cause for which they had come to
Egypt, they advised them to order the contest so as to be for strangers
alone to contend in, and that no Eleian should be permitted to contend.
Such was the suggestion made by the Egyptians to the Eleians.

When Psammis had been king of Egypt for only six years and had made an
expedition to Ethiopia and immediately afterwards had ended his life,
Apries the son of Psammis received the kingdom in succession. This man
came to be the most prosperous of all the kings up to that time except
only his forefather Psammetichos; and he reigned five-and-twenty years,
during which he led an army against Sidon and fought a sea-fight with
the king of Tyre. Since however it was fated that evil should come upon
him it came by occasion of a matter which I shall relate at greater
length in the Libyan history, and at present but shortly. Apries having
sent