i6 CHRONOLOGY.

CuRaKictE.-worfliipped after death, each in his own temple, with ceremo-nies and fellivals appointedby him; whilehe and hisqueen, bythe names of Ofiris and Ilis, were to be worfhippedin allEgypt.Thefe were the temples feen and defcribed by Lucian elevenhnndred years after, to be of one and the fame age; and thiswas the original of the feveral Nomes of Egypt, and of the fe-veral gods and feveral religions of thole nomes. Sefac dividedalfo the land of Egypt by meafure amongft his foldiers; andthence geometry had its rife. Hercules and Euryftheus born.

963. Amphictyon brings the twelves gods of Egypt intoGreece ; and thefe are the Dii magni majorum gentium , to whomthe earth and planets and elements are dedicated.

962. Pliryxus and Helie fly from their ftep-mother Ino, thedaughter of Cadmus. Helle is drowned in the Hellefpont, fonamed from her; but Phryxus arrived at Colchos.

960. The war between the Lapithse and thepeople of Thef-faly, called Centaurs.

958. Oedipus hilis his father JLaius. Sthenelus, the fon ofPerfeus, reigns in Mycene.

956. Sefac is flain by his brother Japetus; who after deathwas deified in Afric by the name of Neptune, and called Typhonby the Egyptians. Orus reigns and routs the Libyans; who, un-der the condudt of Japetus, and his fon Antaeus or Atlas, in-vaded Egypt. Sefac, from his making the river Nile ufeful, bycutting channels from it to all the cities of Egypt, was called byits names, Sihor or Siris, Nilus and Egyptus. The Greeks hear-ing the Egyptians lament, O Siris and Bou Siris , called him Ofl-ris and Bufiris. The Arabians from his great a&s called himBacchus; that is, the Great. The Phrygians called him Ma-fors,or Mavors, The Vallant; and, by contradtion, Mars. Becaufe he fetup pillars in all his conquefls, and his army in his father’s reignfought againft the Africans with clubs, he is painted with pillarsand a club. And this is that Hercules who, according to Cicero,was born upon the Nile; and, according to Eudoxus, was flain byTyphon; and, according to Diodorus, was anEgyptian; andwentover a great part of the world, and fet up the pillars in Afric.He feems to be alfo the Belus, who, according to Diodorus, led4 a co-