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Hyksos fortif / front Asiat. / fear of other / arrivals. / (the Germ. q. / guess def. / of the Roman front- / Germ. )… king, one of their own: Salatis. He resided at Memphis, levying tributes. over the upper and lower province and leaving garrisons in the most suitable places. Especially he fortified the region of the East, for he foresaw that the Assyrians, having become one day more powerful, would covethis kingdom and attackwould. As he had found in the Sethroite nome a city of a very favourable position, situated to the east of the Bubastite branch, and named, according to an ancient theological tradition, Avaris, he rebuilt it, fortified it with very solid walls; he also established there a multitude of heavily armed soldiers, about 24000, to guard it. He came there in summer, to measure their grain and pay their wages, and to exercise them carefully through manoeuvres in order to inspire fear in foreigners. This whole people was called Hyksos, = shepherd kings. " ... The etymol. false sôs = rather foreign country (Khasout). From the 12th dyn. tr heka - khasout = chiefs of the Asiatic tribes bringing gifts (Beni-Hassan). In fact one must connect the invasion of the
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