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H. cautiously gives his authority for the conquests of Sesostris to the north and east; Strabo (769) takes him over ‘all Asia’; Diodorus (i. 55) makes him cross the Ganges and overrun all India to the ocean; no doubt this detail was invented to make him outrival Alexander, just as he is made to conquer the Scythians (c. 103) in order to surpass Darius (c. 110). Really, however, no Egyptian conqueror ever penetrated beyond North Syria except Amenhotep II, who actually crossed the Euphrates.

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