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father O liris or Bacchus fer that purpofe, and paRIng tbrdughEGrpT.Egypt fubdued the Arabians, and Syria, and Cilicia, and camethrough Phrygia, viz. in the army of Bacchus, to the Mediterra-neam; but pafling over into Europe, was llain with many of het*women by the Thracians and Scythians, under the condutT ofSipylus, a Scvthian, and Mopfus, a Thracian, whom Lycurgusking of Thrace had banithed. This was that Lycurgus who op-pofed the palTage of Bacchus over the Hellefpont; and was foonafter conquered by him, and flain. But afterwards Bacchus metwith a repulfe from the Greeks, under the conduft of Perfeus;who flew many of his women, as Paufanias a relates, and was’ Paufan.i.^ffifted by the Scythians and Thracians under the condudt of gj_ c ' 20,p ’ I5S *pylus and Mopfus. Which repulfes, together with a revolt ofhis brother Danaus in Egypt, put a ftop to his vi£tories. Andin returning horne he left part of his men in Colchis and atMourit Caucafus, under /Fetes and Prometheus ; and his womenupon the river Thermodon near Colchis, under their new queensMarthefia and Lampeto. For Diodorus b , fpeaking of the Ama - 1 Diodor.zons who were feated at Thermodon, faith, that they dwelt ori-&s’choi! aI’ginally in Libya, and there reigned over the Atlantides, and in-£”°™' h *'vading their neighbours, conquered as far as Europe : and Am-mianus c , that the ancient Amazons, breaking through. many c Ammiair.nations, attacked the Athenians, and there receiving a great 2 *' C ’ilaughter ( 3 ), retired to Thermodon: and Juftin d , that tbefeMuNi»-!. r.Amazons had at firft, he means at their firft coming to Ther- C ' 4 'modon, two queens who called themfelves daughters of Mars ;and that they conquered part of Europe, and forne cities of Aha,viz. in the reign of Minerva; and then fent back part of their

both mythologers and poets, had colledted a hiftory of Bacchus and the Amazons, the Argo-nauts, theTrojan war, and variousother things, Diod. lib. 3. c. 65. p. 140. The learnedWel-feling tabes this Dionyfius to be the Milefian, who is mentioned in Suidas as the aut hoc of aCyclus Hiltoricus, and other works in hifiory and mythology. It is from this Dionyfius thatDiodorus takes the account, which he gives, of Thymoetes and his writings. It does not ap-pear, that Diodorus had himfelf everfeen the poerns of Thymoetes, or that they were extant inhis time.

pj Diod. Sic. lib. 3. c 69. p. 142.

( 3 ) The unfuccefsful expedition of the Amazons, in times before the Trojan war, was farnouiin antiquity, and it was a favourite topic wirh the orators. It is mentioned by Plato in the Me-nexenus ; by Ifocrates, in his Panegyric ; and niore circumfiahtially dekribed by Lyfias, in hisPpitaphian. Lyfias agrees with Ifocrates, that not orte of this female army returned home.And he reprefents the unprofperous event of the expedition as the ruin of the nation.

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