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* Diodor.1. i.p. 9.

h Apud Dio-dor. 1. 3.p. 141.

CjHRONOLOGY.

army, with a greatbooty, under their faid new queens; and thatMarpefia being afterwards llain, was fucceeded by her daughterOrithyia, and Ihe by Penthefilea; and that Thefeus captivated andmarried Hippolyte the lifter of Antiopa. Hercules made war up-cn the Amazons; and in the reign of Orithyia and Penthefilea theycame to the Trojan war. Whence the firft wars of the Amazonsin Europe and Alia, and their fettling at Thermodon, were butone generation b e fore thofe atftions of Hercules and Thefeus;and but two, before the Trojan war; and lo feli in with the expe-ti itio n of Sefoftris. And linee they warred in the days of Ilis andher fon Orus, and were a part of the army of Bacchus or Oliris;we have here a further argument for making Oliris and Bacchuscontemporary to Sefollris, and ali three one and the fame kingwith Sefac.

V. The Greeks reckon Ofiris and Bacchus to be fons of Jupi-ter; and the Egyptian name of Jupiter is Aramon. Manetho,in his ntli and 1 zth Dynallies, as he is cited by Africanus andEufebius (’), names thefe four kings of Egypt as reigning in or-der ; Ammenemes; Gefongefes or Sefonchoris, the fon of Am-menemes; Ammenemes, who was llain by his eunuchs; and Se-foftris, who fubdued ali Alia and part of Europe. Gefongefes andSefonchoris are corruptly written for Sefoncholis ; and the twofirft of thefe four kings, Ammenemes and Sefoncholis, are thefame with the two laft, Ammenemes and Sefoftris; that is, withAmmon and Sefac. For Diodorus faith % that Oliris buil.t inThebes a magnificent tempie to his parents Jupiter and Juno; andtwo other temples ( 2 ) to Jupiter, a larger to Jupiter Uranius, anda lefs to his father Jupiter Ammon, who reigned in that city :and b Thymaetes above-mentioned, who was contemporary to

Orpheus,

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(') Eufeb. Exc. Gr. p. 15. (*) Not two other temptes, but two fhrines. ( ? ) See §TV. not. 1.

( 4 ) That is, if Sefoftris be the fame with Ofiris. For Oliris was the founder of Thebes.(Diod. Sic. lib. 1. c. 15. p. 9.) No antient writer mentions Sefoftris as the founder of this city.

( 5 ) Amnon.

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( T ) The worfliip of the calf in Egypt was certainly as o!d as the departure of the Ifraelites..And Egypt was a great corncountry in the time of Jacob. The king the re fore who tanght theEgyptians agiiculture, and, for that benefadiion, was worftiipped by them in the ox or calf ; was

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