Amasis has been severely enough punished for banishing me from country, friends and pupils into this unclean land." "You mean by his blindness perhaps ?" "Possibly." "Then you have not heard that Petammon, one of your colleagues, has succeeded in cutting the skin, which covered the pupil of the eye and so restoring Amasis' sight ?" The Egyptian started and ground his teeth; recovered his presence of mind, however, in a moment, and answered: "Then the gods have punished the father through the children." "In what way?
Psamtik suits his father's present mood very well.

It is true that Tachot is ill, but she prays and sacrifices with her father all the more for that; and as to Nitetis, you and I both know that her death will not touch him very closely." "I really do not understand you." "Of course not, so long as you fancy that I believe your beautiful patient to be Amasis' daughter." The Egyptian started again, but Phanes went on without appearing to notice his emotion: "I know more than you suppose.

Nitetis is the daughter of Hophra, Amasis' dethroned predecessor.

Amasis brought her up as his own child-first, in order to make the Egyptians believe that Hophra had died childless; secondly, in order to deprive her of her rights to the throne; for you know women are allowed to govern on the Nile." "These are mere suppositions." "For which, however, I can bring irrefragable proofs.

Among the papers which your old servant Hib brought with him in a small box, there must be some letters from a certain Sonnophre, a celebrated accoucheur, your own father, which.