Psammenitos
Family: Egyptian · Role: king of Egypt · First appears: Book 3 · §9–14
Life events
- Psammenitos was reigning as king and awaited Cambyses’s arrival.(Book 3 · §9–14 · 📍 the Pelusian mouth of the Nile)
- “Psammenitos the son of Amasis was encamped at the Pelusian mouth of the Nile waiting for the coming of Cambyses”
- Cambyses’s forces defeated the Egyptians, who fled into Memphis.(Book 3 · §9–14 · 📍 Memphis)
- With: Cambyses
- “the Egyptians at length turned to flight.”
- After a siege, the Egyptians surrendered Memphis to Cambyses.(Book 3 · §9–14 · 📍 Memphis)
- With: Cambyses
- “After this the Egyptians being besieged, in course of time surrendered themselves;”
- Cambyses publicly humiliated Psammenitos by seating him in the city’s suburb.(Book 3 · §9–14 · 📍 Memphis)
- With: Cambyses
- “Cambyses set the king of the Egyptians Psammenitos, who had been king for six months, to sit in the suburb of the city, to do him dishonour”
- Cambyses ordered Psammenitos’s son among the Egyptians sentenced to die in retaliation.(Book 3 · §9–14 · 📍 Memphis)
- With: Cambyses
- “Cambyses sent his son with two thousand Egyptians besides who were of the same age, with ropes bound round their necks and bits placed in their mouths; and these were being led away to execution”
- Cambyses ordered Psammenitos’s son saved from execution and Psammenitos brought before him.(Book 3 · §9–14 · 📍 Memphis)
- With: Cambyses
- “forthwith he bade them save the life of the son of Psammenitos from among those who were being put to death, and also he bade them raise Psammenitos himself from his place in the suburb of the city and bring him into his own presence.”
Book 3 · §9–14
- parent: Amasis “Psammenitos the son of Amasis was encamped at the Pelusian mouth of the Nile waiting for the coming of Cambyses:”
- enemies with Cambyses (son of Cyrus) “Meanwhile Psammenitos the son of Amasis was encamped at the Pelusian mouth of the Nile waiting for the coming of Cambyses: for Cambyses did not find Amasis yet living when he marched upon Egypt,”
- with Cambyses (son of Cyrus) (interaction) “Cambyses set the king of the Egyptians Psammenitos, who had been king for six months, to sit in the suburb of the city, to do him dishonour”
Book 3 · §15–21
- with Cambyses (Psammenitos was found inciting revolt; Cambyses learned of it.) “for he was found to be inciting the Egyptians to revolt; and when this became known to Cambyses, Psammenitos drank bull's blood and died forthwith”
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