SESOSTRIS  , the name of a legendary See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

king of See also:

• EGYPT

Egypt . According to See also:

• HERODOTUS (c. 484-425 B.C.)

Herodotus, Diodorus Siculus (who calls him Sesoosis) and See also:

• STRABO (born c. 63 n.c.)

Strabo, he conquered the whole See also:

• WORLD

world, even See also:

• SCYTHIA (Gr. EKuOia)

Scythia and See also:

• ETHIOPIA, or AETHIOPIA (Gr. AlOtoaia)

Ethiopia, divided Egypt into administrative districts or nomes, was a See also:

• GREAT

great See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law-giver, and introduced a See also:

• SYSTEM

system of See also:

• CASTE (through the Fr. from Span. and Port. casta, lineage, Lat. cast us, pure)

caste and the See also:

• WORSHIP (i.e. " worth-ship," O. Eng. weor8scipe)

worship of See also:

• SERAPIS

Serapis . He has been considered a See also:

• COMPOUND
• COMPOUND (from Lat. componere, to combine or put together)

compound of Seti I. and See also:

• RAMESES, or RAMESSES (Gen. xlvii. r1; Exod. xii. 37; Num. xxxiii. 3)

Rameses II., belonging to the XIXth See also:

• DYNASTY (Gr. &vvaareta, sovereignty, the position of a hevnori7r, lord, ruler, from SuvaaBay to be able, Suvaµas, power)

Dynasty . In See also:

• MANETHO (Mav40cov in an inscription of Carthage; MaveBees in a papyrus)

Manetho,however, he occupied the See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place of the second Senwosri (formerly read Usertesen) of the XIIth Dynasty, and his name is now usually viewed as a corruption of Senwosri . So far as is known no See also:

• EGYPTIAN

Egyptian king penetrated a See also:

• DAY (O. Eng. dreg, Ger. Tag; according to the New English Dictionary, " in no way related to the Lat. dies")
• DAY, JOHN (1574-1640?)
• DAY, THOMAS (1748-1789)

day's See also:

• JOURNEY (through O. Fr. jornee or journee, mod. Fr. journee, from med. Lat. diurnata, Lat. diurnus, of or belonging to dies, day)

journey beyond the See also:

• EUPHRATES (Babylon. Purattu, Heb. Perath, Arab. Frdt or Furst, Old Pers. Ufratu, Gr. Eb4 parrls)

Euphrates or into See also:

• ASIA

Asia See also:

• MINOR
• MINOR (Lat. for smaller, lesser)
• MINOR, ROBERT CRANNELL (1839-1904)

Minor, or touched the See also:

• CONTINENT (from Lat. continere, "to hold together "; hence " connected," " continuous ")

continent of See also:

• EUROPE

Europe . The See also:

• KINGS, FIRST AND SECOND BOOKS OF

kings of the XVIIIth and XIXth dynasties were the greatest conquerors that Egypt ever produced, and their records are clear on this point . Senwosri III. raided See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

south See also:

• PALESTINE

Palestine and Ethiopia, and at Semna beyond the second See also:

• CATARACT (from the Lat. form cataracta of the Gr. Karapplucrgss, a floodgate, or waterfall, properly something which rushes down)

cataract set up a stela of See also:

• CONQUEST

conquest that in its expressions recalls the stelae of Sesostris in Herodotus: Sesostris may, therefore, be the highly magnified portrait of this See also:

• PHARAOH (Par'oh)

Pharaoh . Khian, the powerful but obscure See also:

• HYKSOS

Hyksos king of Egypt, whose prenomen might be pronounced Sweserenre,is perhaps a possible prototype, for See also:

• OBJECTS

objects inscribed with his name have been found from See also:

• BAGDAD, or BAGHDAD

Bagdad to See also:

• CNOSSUS

Cnossus . Sesostris is evidently a mythical figure calculated to satisfy the See also:

• PRIDE, THOMAS (d. 1658)

pride of the Egyptians in their See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

ancient achievements, after they had come into contact with the great conquerors of See also:

• ASSYRIA

Assyria and See also:

• PERSIA

Persia . When we recollect that the Ethiopian Tearchus (Tirhaka) of the 7th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century B.C., who was hopelessly worsted by the Assyrians and scarcely ventured outside the See also:

• NILE
• NILE, BATTLE OF THE
• NILE, SOBAT

Nile valley, was credited by Megasthenes (4th century) and Strabo with having extended his conquests as far as See also:

• INDIA
• INDIA, FRENCH

India and the pillars of See also:

• HERCULES
• HERCULES (0. Lat. Hercoles, Hercles)

Hercules, it is not surprising if the dim figures of antiquity were magnified to a less degree . In the See also:

• CASE
• CASE, JOHN (d. 1600)

case of Tearchus, the See also:

• MISCELLANEOUS

miscellaneous levies which he employed himself and those which composed the Egyptian and See also:

• ASSYRIAN

Assyrian armies opposed to him, and the lands that Egypt and Ethiopia traded with, must all have been counted, partly through misunderstanding, partly through wilful perversion, to his See also:

• EMPIRE

empire . Herodotus ii .

102-III ; Diod . Sic. i . 53-59; Strabo xv. p . 687; see also See also:

• ARTICLE (from Lat. articulus, a joint)

article EGYPT; and Kurt Sethe, " Sesostris," 1900, in his Linters. z . Gesch. u . Altertumskunde Agyptens, tome ii . (F . L1 .