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ἐσθῆτι. This dedication was a compliment to his mercenaries, many of whom were Carian. The Branchidae temple (cf. i. 46. 2 n.) had been plundered by the Persians before the birth of H. (v. 36. 3), but there is no need to suppose that he got this fact from Hecataeus.

ἑκκαίδεκα. Manetho gives Necho only six years (frs. 66-7: F. H. G. ii. 593-5); funeral monuments, however, in the museums of Florence and Leyden confirm H., showing that Necho died in the sixteenth year of his reign. Some (needlessly) try to reconcile the two figures by making Necho rule nine years as regent with his father.

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