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shepherd king
1. pl. [transl. of Gr. βασιλεῖς ποιµένες, Manetho's rendering of the Egyptian designation which he transliterates as Ὕκσως (Hyksōs).
Modern scholars give the probable Egyptian form of the name as heqa khoswe chief of foreign lands, Manetho's rendering being due to a mistake.]
The designation of a succession of kings of Egypt (forming the 15th and 16th dynasties of Manetho), belonging to some foreign people, probably of mixed Semitic-Asiatic stock. (By historians often called Hyksos.)
1587Golding De Mornay xxvi. 465 Manethon the Historiographer of Egipt setteth vs downe their originall, and their comming downe into Egipt, terming them in his language, Shepherd-kings. 1821Lamb Elia, Old & New Schoolm., I make the wildest conjectures concerning Egypt, and her shepherd kings. 1874Birch 1st & 2nd Egypt. Rooms Brit. Mus. 7 The monuments of the Shepherd kings.
2. gen. A king who is a shepherd. (In various nonce-uses: see quots.)
1727–46Thomson Summer 402 One, chief, in gracious dignity enthron'd, Shines o'er the rest, the pastoral queen, and rays Her smiles, sweet-beaming, on her shepherd king. a1835Mrs. Hemans He Walked with God, A shepherd-king on Eastern plains. 1856Reade Never too late xxxvii, Nomades, shepherd-kings—fellows with a thousand head of horned cattle, and sheep like white pebbles by the sea. |