And now, my father, what has become of us?
We are made use of to keep the people in the faith, for if they cease to honor the Gods how will they submit to kings?
Seti ventured much, his son risks still more, and therefore both have required much succor from the Immortals.

Rameses is pious, he sacrifices frequently, and loves prayer: we are necessary to him, to waft incense, to slaughter hecatombs, to offer prayers, and to interpret dreams--but we are no longer his advisers.

My father, now in Osiris, a worthier high-priest than I, was charged by the Prophets to entreat his father to give up the guilty project of connecting the north sea by a navigable channel with the unclean waters of the Red Sea.
[The harbors of the Red Sea were in the hands of the Phoenicians, who sailed from thence southwards to enrich themselves with the produce of Arabia and Ophir.

Pharaoh Necho also projected a Suez canal, but does not appear to have carried it out, as the oracle declared that the utility of the undertaking would be greatest to foreigners.] "Such things can only benefit the Asiatics.

But Seti would not listen to our counsel.