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History of Greece, Volume 03 (of 12)

Note 624 — Chapter XX · EGYPTIANS.

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Herodot. ii, 159. Diodorus makes no mention of Nekôs.

The account of Herodotus coincides in the main with the history of the Old Testament about Pharaoh Necho and Josiah. The great city of Syria which he calls Κάδυτις seems to be Jerusalem, though Wesseling (ad Herodot. iii, 5) and other able critics dispute the identity. See Volney, Recherches sur l’Hist. Anc. vol. ii, ch. 13, p. 239: “Les Arabes ont conservé l’habitude d’appeler Jerusalem la Sainte par excellence, el Qods. Sans doute les Chaldéens et les Syriens lui donnèrent le même nom, qui dans leur dialecte est Qadouta, dont Hérodote rend bien l’orthographie quand il écrit Κάδυτις.”

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