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doms. The fhepherds reigned long in the lower part of Egypt, Greeks.and were expelled thence juft before the building of Jerufalemand the Temple, according to Manetho; and whilft they reignedin the lower part of Egypt, the upper part thereof was underother kings : and while Egypt was divided into feveral king-doms, there was no room for any fuch king of ad Egypt as Se-foftris ; and no hiftorian makes him later tlian Sefac : and there-fore he was one and the fame king of Egypt with Sefac. Thisis no new opinion: Jofephus difcovered it, when he affirmed thatHerodotus erred, in afcribing the adlions of Sefac to Sefoftris,and that the error was only in the nam e of the king : for thisis as-much as to fay, that the true name of him who did thofethings defcribed by Herodotus, was Sefac; and that Herodotuserred only in calling him Sefoftris; or that he w r as called Sefoftrisby a corruption of his name. Our great chronologer, Sir JohnMarfliam, was alfo of opinion that Sefoftris was Sefac : and if thisbe granted, it is then moft certain, that Sefoftris came out ofEgypt in the ftfth year of Rehoboam to invade the nations, andreturned back into Egypt in the i^th year of that king; and .that Danaus then flying from his brother, came into Greece with-in a year or two after : and the Argonautic expedition, being onegeneration later than that invafion, and than the c.oming of Da-naus into Greece, was certainly about 40 or 45 years later than .the death of Solomon. Prometheus ftayed on-Mount Cauca-fus a thirty years, and then was releafed by Hercules: and there- o

. . J Fab. 144. &

fore the Argonautic expedition was thirty years after Prometheus 54-had been left on Mount Caucaftis by Sefoftris ; that is, about 44years after the death of Solomon.

XXI. Ali .nations, before the juft length of the folar year was -known, reckoned months by the courfeof themoon; and yearsby the b returns of winter and fummer, fpring and autumn : b Gen. i. 14.and in making calendars for their feftivals, they reckoned thirty Cenfo'rinu'sdays to a lunar month, and twelve lunar months to a year; tak- cicero^in 0 ’

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phus meant. The opinion is largely examined by Perizonius in the;8th and gth chapters of his Geminus cr.6^.Origines iEgyptiacre.

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C) 1 Kings ix. 16. Marfliam. Set. XIV. Tit. Ophir.