What are we now?
The king himself calls beggars and foreigners the supporters of his throne, and devises a petty stratagem to secure the friendship of a power over whom we were victorious before the Nile was infested by these strangers.

Egypt was then a mighty Queen in glorious apparel; she is now a painted woman decked out in tinsel!" [Rameses the Great, son of Sethos, reigned over Egypt 1394-1328 B.
C.He was called Sesostris by the Greeks; see Lepsius (Chron.

d.
Aegypter, p.

538.) on the manner in which this confusion of names arose.

Egypt attained the zenith of her power under this king, whose army, according to Diodorus (I.53-58).