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Menkaura was succeeded by two nameless kings and then by Shepseskaf (Meyer, i. 235). Diodorus (i. 65) makes Bocchoris succeed Mycerinus, and (i. 94) says that he ‘settled the laws of contract’; he also (ib.) mentions Sasyches as the second of the lawgivers of Egypt (v. i.). This last may be the king meant by ‘Asychis’, but if so, he is out of place, for he seems to belong to the second dynasty. H.'s confusion is unexplained.

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