Sanacharib

Family: Arabians and Assyrians · Role: king · First appears: Book 2 · §139–143

Life events

Sanacharib marched against Egypt with a great host.(Book 2 · §139–143 · 📍 Egypt)
- “After this, Sanacharib king of the Arabians and of the Assyrians marched a great host against Egypt.”
Mice ruined the invaders’ weapons, and the Arabians fled the next day, suffering heavy losses.(Book 2 · §139–143 · 📍 Pelusion)
- With: Sethos
- “Then after they came, there swarmed by night upon their enemies mice of the fields, and ate up their quivers and their bows, and moreover the handles of their shields, so that on the next day they fled, and being without defence of arms great numbers fell.”

with Sethos (Sanacharib led an invasion against Sethos's Egypt.) “After this, Sanacharib king of the Arabians and of the Assyrians marched a great host against Egypt.”
enemies with Sethos (Sanacharib's invasion threatened Sethos.) “After this, Sanacharib king of the Arabians and of the Assyrians marched a great host against Egypt. Then the warriors of the Egyptians refused to come to the rescue, and the priest, being driven into a strait, entered into the sanctuary of the temple”

Extracted from the original text of The Histories. Made with Rho MD.