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is baffled by the Greeks and Scythians, loses many of his
women with their Queen Minerva, composes the war, is received by
Amphiction at a feast, buries Ariadne, goes back through Asia and Syria
into Egypt, with innumerable captives, among whom was Tithonus, the
son of Laomedon King of _Troy_; and leaves his Libyan Amazons,
under Marthesia and Lampeto, the successors of Minerva, at the river
Thermodon. He left also in Colchos
Geographical Tables of all his
conquests: And thence Geography had its rise. His singing-women
were celebrated in Thrace by the name of the Muses. And the daughters
of Pierus a Thracian, imitating them, were celebrated by the same
name.
964. Minos, making war upon Cocalus King of Sicily, is slain by him.
He was eminent for his Dominion, his Laws and his Justice: upon his
sepulchre visited by Pythagoras, was this inscription, [Greek: TOU
DIOS] the Sepulchre of Jupiter. Danaus with his daughters flying from
his brother Egyptus (that is from _Sesac_) comes into Greece. Sesac
using the advice of his Secretary Thoth, distributes Egypt into xxxvi
Nomes, and in every Nome erects a Temple, and appoints the several
Gods, Festivals and Religions of the several Nomes. The Temples were
the sepulchres of his great men, where they were to be buried and
worshipped after death, each in his own Temple, with ceremonies and

festivals appointed by him; while He and his Queen, by the names of
Osiris and Isis, were to be worshipped in all Egypt. These were the
Temples seen and described by Lucian eleven hundred years after, to
be of one and the same age: and this was the original of the several
Nomes of Egypt, and of the several Gods and several Religions of those
Nomes. Sesac divided also the land of Egypt by measure amongst his
soldiers, and thence Geometry had its rise. Hercules and Eurystheus
born.
963. Amphictyon brings the twelve Gods of Egypt into Greece, and
these are the Dii magni majorum gentium, to whom the Earth and
Planets and Elements are dedicated.
962. Phryxus and Helle fly from their stepmother Ino the daughter of
Cadmus. Helle is drowned in the Hellespont, so named from her, but
Phryxus arrived at Colchos.
960. The war between the _Lapithæ_ and the people of Thessaly called
Centaurs.
958. Oedipus kills his father Laius. Sthenelus the son of Perseus Reigns
in Mycene.
956. Sesac is slain by his brother Japetus, who after death was deified
in Afric by the name of Neptune, and called Typhon by the Egyptians.
Orus Reigns and routs the Libyans, who under the conduct of Japetus,
and his Son _Antæus_ or Atlas, invaded Egypt. Sesac from his making
the river
Nile useful, by cutting channels from it to all the cities of
Egypt, was called by its names, Sihor or Siris, Nilus and Egyptus. The
Greeks hearing the Egyptians lament, O Siris and Bou Siris, called him
Osiris and Busiris. The Arabians from his great acts called him
Bacchus, that is, the Great. The Phrygians called him _Ma-fors_ or
Mavors, the valiant, and by contraction Mars. Because he set up pillars
in all his conquests, and his army in his father's Reign fought against
the Africans with clubs, he is painted with pillars and a club: and this is
that Hercules who, according to Cicero, was born upon the Nile, and
according to Eudoxus, was slain by _Typhon_; and according to
Diodorus, was an Egyptian, and went over a great part of the world,

and set up the pillars in Afric. He seems to be also the Belus who,
according to Diodorus, led a Colony of Egyptians to Babylon, and there
instituted Priests called Chaldeans, who were free from taxes, and
observed the stars, as in Egypt. Hitherto Judah and Israel laboured
under great vexations, but henceforward Asa King of Judah had peace
ten years.
947. The Ethiopians invade Egypt, and drown Orus in the Nile.
Thereupon Bubaste the sister of Orus kills herself, by falling from the
top of an house, and their mother Isis or _Astræa_ goes mad: and thus
ended the Reign of the Gods of Egypt.
946. Zerah the Ethiopian is overthrown by Asa. The people of the
lower Egypt make Osarsiphus their King, and call in two hundred
thousand Jews and Phoenicians against the Ethiopians. Menes or
Amenophis the young son of Zerah and Cissia Reigns.
944. The Ethiopians, under Amenophis, retire from the lower Egypt and
fortify Memphis against Osarsiphus. And by these wars and the
Argonautic expedition, the great Empire of Egypt breaks in pieces.
Eurystheus the son of Sthenelus Reigns in _Mycenæ_.
943. Evander and his mother Carmenta carry Letters into Italy
.
942. Orpheus Deifies the son of Semele by the name of Bacchus, and
appoints his Ceremonies.
940. The great men of Greece, hearing