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Psammis is called on the monuments Psamtik (like his grandfather), by Manetho (u. s.) ψάμμουθις. His coffin (now in the museum at Gizeh) is too small for an adult (Z. A. S. xxii. 80); the early death thus implied agrees with his short reign. His most important act was an expedition against Ethiopia (161. 1); it is to this that the graffiti at Abusimbel belong (cf. 154. 4 n.).

The story of the Eleans (transferred by Diod. i. 95 to Amasis) is interesting as showing how completely the Greeks had the English ideas of ‘sportsmanship’, and how strange these were to other nations; for the impartiality of the Eleans cf. the repartee of Agis in Plut. Mor. 215, and more generally Athen. 350.

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