text:  For when their king had ascertained that bec was a word of the original language of mankind and could not understand it he was informed that among the Phrygians it signified bread; whereupon he adjudged that language to be of all others the first in which _bec_ hath that meaning; which _bec_ being at this day our word for bread and _becker_ ("baker") for bread-maker it stands consequently confessed on this most ancient testimony of Psammetichus that our language is of all others the first and oldest