Tuesday, June 02, 2020
Men Stir Up Strife Unopposed
The Admonitions of Ipuwer (Papyrus Leiden 344), VII, tr. Miriam Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature, Vol. I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975), p. 156, with note on p. 162:
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Men stir up strife unopposed.
See, the land is tied up in gangs,
The coward is emboldened to seize his goods.17
17. I.e., to acquire goods for himself by robbing.
