About
noon
`` But they say that they are , they themselves give answer , '' replied the courtier . Rameses gave command to bring his horse , and he rode to the army encamped beyond the city . He reviewed the regiments all day . About noon , on the field of exercise , appeared , at command of the nomarch , some tens of carriers with food and wine , tents and furniture . But the prince sent them back to Atribis ; and when the hour came for army food , he commanded to serve that to him ; so he ate dried meat with oat cakes . These were the mercenary regiments of Libya . When the prince ordered them to lay aside arms in the evening , and took farewell of the men , it seemed as though the soldiers and officers had yielded to madness .