{"id":2333,"date":"2018-03-09T07:29:28","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T12:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=2333"},"modified":"2018-03-10T13:33:02","modified_gmt":"2018-03-10T18:33:02","slug":"9mar2018-quote-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/09\/9mar2018-quote-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"9MAR2018 &#8211; Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Book Two of the Histories is about Egypt.\u00a0 Lots of myth and legend and gossip as you could tell by the previous story of the burglar.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Now before Psammetichus became king of Egypt,1 the Egyptians believed that they were the oldest people on earth. But ever since Psammetichus became king and wished to find out which people were the oldest, they have believed that the Phrygians were older than they, and they than everybody else. [2] Psammetichus, when he was in no way able to learn by inquiry which people had first come into being, devised a plan by which he took two newborn children of the common people and gave them to a shepherd to bring up among his flocks. He gave instructions that no one was to speak a word in their hearing; they were to stay by themselves in a lonely hut, and in due time the shepherd was to bring goats and give the children their milk and do everything else necessary. [3] Psammetichus did this, and gave these instructions, because he wanted to hear what speech would first come from the children, when they were past the age of indistinct babbling. And he had his wish; for one day, when the shepherd had done as he was told for two years, both children ran to him stretching out their hands and calling \u201cBekos!\u201d as he opened the door and entered. [4] When he first heard this, he kept quiet about it; but when, coming often and paying careful attention, he kept hearing this same word, he told his master at last and brought the children into the king&#8217;s presence as required. Psammetichus then heard them himself, and asked to what language the word \u201cBekos\u201d belonged; he found it to be a Phrygian word, signifying bread. [5] Reasoning from this, the Egyptians acknowledged that the Phrygians were older than they. This is the story which I heard from the priests of Hephaestus&#8217;2 temple at Memphis; the Greeks say among many foolish things that Psammetichus had the children reared by women whose tongues he had cut out. 3.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[socialpoll id=&#8221;2489142&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book Two of the Histories is about Egypt.\u00a0 Lots of myth and legend and gossip as you could tell by the previous story of the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[241,701,237],"tags":[806,411,778,196,819],"class_list":["post-2333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","category-quote-of-the-day","category-reviews","tag-ancient-egypt","tag-greek-history","tag-greeks","tag-herodotus","tag-phrygia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>9MAR2018 - Quote of the Day - Orion&#039;s Cold Fire<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/09\/9mar2018-quote-of-the-day\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"9MAR2018 - Quote of the Day - Orion&#039;s Cold Fire\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Book Two of the Histories is about Egypt.\u00a0 Lots of myth and legend and gossip as you could tell by the previous story of the\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/09\/9mar2018-quote-of-the-day\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Orion&#039;s Cold Fire\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-03-09T12:29:28+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2018-03-10T18:33:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"photog\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@orionscoldfire\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@orionscoldfire\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"photog\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/09\/9mar2018-quote-of-the-day\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/09\/9mar2018-quote-of-the-day\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"photog\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/#\/schema\/person\/d11e80f83f3825ce9fe38a5303eb64d3\"},\"headline\":\"9MAR2018 &#8211; 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