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Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley), Book 3, chapter 1 (search)
Cyrus' son Cambyses was leading an army of his subjects, Ionian and Aeolian Greeks among them,The received date is 525 B.C. against this Amasis for the following reason. Cambyses had sent a herald to Egypt asking Amasis for his daughter; he asked on the advice of an Egyptian, who advised it out of resentment against Amasis, that out of all the Egyptian physicians Amasis had dragged him away from his wife and children and sent him up to Persia when Cyrus sent to Amasis asking for the best eye-doctor in Egypt.
Out of resentment, the Egyptian by his advice induced Cambyses to ask Amasis for his daughter, so that Amasis would either be wretched if he gave her, or hated by Cambyses if he did not. Amasis, intimidated by the power of Persia and frightened, could neither give his daughter nor refuse her; for he knew well that Cambyses was not going to take her as his wife but as his concubine.
After considering the matter, he did as follows. There was a daughter of the former king Apries, al