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Egyptian city alarmed by the Cretan raid

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Egyptian city alarmed by the Cretan raid
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Parent location
Egypt
Editorial note
This unnamed city occurs only within Ulysses’s lying Cretan biography.

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Claims

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·Disguised

Alarm from the raid reaches an Egyptian city, whose people deploy at daybreak.

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“The alarm was soon carried to the city, and when they heard the war cry, the people came out at daybreak”
·Disguised

The alarm reaches the Egyptian city, whose people emerge at daybreak after hearing the war cry.

See evidence text
“The alarm was soon carried to the city, and when they heard the war-cry, the people came out at daybreak”

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·Disguised
“The alarm was soon carried to the city”
·Disguised
“The alarm was soon carried to the city”

Passage preview

Book 14 · Passage 14

‘But the men disobeyed my orders, took to their own devices, and ravaged the land of the Egyptians, killing the men, and taking their wives and children captive. The alarm was soon carried to the city, and when they heard the war cry, the people came out at daybreak till the plain was filled with horsemen and foot soldiers and with the gleam of armour. Then Jove spread panic among my men, and they would no longer face the enemy, for they found themselves surrounded. The Egyptians killed many of us, and took the rest alive to do forced labour for them. Jove, however, put it in my mind to do thus—and I wish I had died then and there in Egypt instead, for there was much sorrow in store for me—I took off my helmet and shield and dropped my spear from my hand; then I went straight up to the king’s chariot, clasped his knees and kissed them, whereon he spared my life, bade me get into his chariot, and took me weeping to his own home. Many made at me with their ashen spears and tried to kill me in their fury, but the king protected me, for he feared the wrath of Jove the protector of strangers, who punishes those who do evil.