The troubles which afflicted Egypt from the time of Raphia in 217 and culminated in the secession of Upper Egypt under native (or Nubian) kings from 205 to 186 have been the object of much recent discussion. In particular the end of the secession recorded in the second Philae decree, which Sethe published in 1916 and commented on in an article in the Zeitschrift für ägyptische Sprache in 1917, has received considerable attention. This decree, passed by the synod of priests meeting in the temple of Isis in Alexandria on 6 September 186, recorded the defeat of Chaonnophris by 3mnws (who, as Peremans and van't Dack have shown, is probably Comanus, well known from other evidence and perhaps shortly after this date epistrategos of the chora); at the synod the news of the victory was announced by the eunuch Aristonicus. But this success, though celebrated by the king's declaration of an amnesty and remission of taxes incurred up to his nineteenth year, did not bring an end to the troubles. From a passage in || Book XXII of Polybius we learn of a further incident, when several rebels from the Delta area – he gives their names – were persuaded to surrender to Polycrates at Sais, whereupon Ptolemy incurred some odium by torturing and executing them.