When a god and a man climb a tree together, the man should allow the god to come first to the top, and thence tell the world that he is a god." "Yes," I answered, "but who ever sees Wisdom until she is flying away?
Now perhaps, the god being the stronger, will cast down the man." Then both together we advanced towards the King, leaving the chariot in charge of soldiers.

He was seated on a gilded chair which served him as a throne, and behind him were his officers, eunuchs and attendants, though not all of them, since at a little distance some of them were engaged in beating the lord who had served as his charioteer upon the feet with rods.

We prostrated ourselves before him and waited till he spoke.

At length he said, "Shabaka the Egyptian, we made a wager with you, of which you will remember the terms.

It seems that you have won the wager, since you slew two lions, whereas we, the King, slew but one, that which leapt upon us in the chariot." Here Bes groaned at my side and I looked up.
"Fear nothing," he went on, "it shall be paid." Here he snatched off the girdle of priceless, rose-hued pearls and threw it in my face.
"At the palace too," he went on, "the dwarf shall be set in the scales and his full weight in pure gold shall be given to you.