Litt. : « an eater of loaves, of rations

3. Papyrus Millingen, pi. 1, 1. 7. « I hâve given him (thee) my arms. »

4. Litt. : « like my slwui, » the slioui being reeds or water flowers.

5. Thus after Papyrus Millingen, pi. I, 1. 10. I take that plirase to signify that people had fought one against the ot.her, as if they had forgotten ail their old traditions.

6. Tïmsa.(ter Papyrus Millingen, pi. II, 1. 1-2. Probably theamphisbsena or blindworm is hère meant.

limbs \ — but I soon foimd that it was to strike at (a foe) who did not stand '. — If I caught a rebel with weapons in his hand, — I made the coward ^ turn back and fly ^ : — he was not brave (even) in the night, and no one fought. — Tliere never was a time of need (coming) that I did not know of ;

§ VIII. — And when my day came, without my knowing it^ — I had not listened to the courtiers (who wished) me to abdicate in thy faveur, — but I sat with thee, and lo ! I made designs for thee; — (and) lest there should be unconscious fear (spreading amongst them) ', — I never wore a heart careless of what was for (my) servants '' !

§ IX. — Whether locusts were drawn up to plunder, — whether î were.assaulted by séditions in the interior of my house, — whether (the Nile) waters were (too) low and wells dry ', — whether (my enemies) took advantage of thy youth for their (wicked) deeds, — I never drew back sincethe day when I was born : — never was the like since the time when the heroes did their deeds \

§ X. — I hâve sent my messengers up to Abu and my

1. Litt. : « I woke up to fight, and I was in (or of) my limbs. »

2. The passage is restituted partly from Papyrus Millingen, pi. 11, 1. 2, and partly from a correction : Qiinna h'iini-roh'cr pu anmenneic.

3. H'imtu, a coarse epithet to be found in Piankhi's stèle, A, 1. 5/16 : An qem n rnenwiu zcs-ew m h' inxtu, « No army stands where the gênerai is a coicard. »