Then I staggered to my feet, and when the armies saw that it was I who rose while Idernes lay still a roar of triumph went up from the Egyptians, answered by a roar of rage from the Easterns.
With a cry of "Well done, Master!" Bes leapt upon the dead man and hewed his head from him, as already he had served the hawk-eyed noble.

Then gripping one head in each hand he held them up for the Easterns to see.
"Men of the Great King," I said, "bear us witness that we have fought fairly, man to man, when we need not have done so." The ten of the Satrap's guard stood silent, but my own shouted, "Back, Shabaka! The Easterns charge!" I looked and saw them coming like waves of steel, then supported by my men and preceded by Bes who danced in front shaking the severed heads, I ran back to my own ranks where one gave me wine to drink and threw water over my hurts which were but slight.

Scarcely was it done when the battle closed in and soon in it I forgot the deaths of Idernes and the Eastern liar..