Note 627 — Chapter XX · EGYPTIANS.
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Herodot. ii, 161. He simply mentions what I have stated in the text; while Diodorus tells us (i, 68) that the Egyptian king took Sidon by assault, terrified the other Phenician towns into submission, and defeated the Phenicians and Cyprians in a great naval battle, acquiring a vast spoil.
What authority Diodorus here followed, I do not know; but the measured statement of Herodotus is far the most worthy of credit.