Within six days all the great lords left in Upper Egypt were sworn to the revolt under the leadership of Peroa, and hour by hour their vassals or hired mercenaries flowed into the city.

These it was my duty to weld into an army, and at this task I toiled without cease, separating them into regiments and drilling them, also arranging for the arming and victualling of the boats of war.

Then news came that Idernes was advancing from Sais with a great force of Easterns, all the garrison of Lower Egypt indeed, as his messengers said, to answer the summons conveyed to him under the private Seal of seals.
Of Amada during this time I saw little, only meeting her now and again at the table of Peroa, or elsewhere in public.

For the rest it pleased her to keep away from me.

Once or twice I tried to find her alone, only to discover that she was engaged in the service of the goddess.