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dorns will be reduced to this: JupiterAmmon and Juno; Ofiris, Egypt.Bufiris or Sefoofis, and Ifis; Horus, Bufiris II. or Sefoofis II ;Menes, or Ofymanduas; Proteus; Remphis or Rameffes; Ucho-reus, Mendes, Marrus, or Myris; Chembis or Cheops; Cephren;Mycerinus; * * Gnephadthus; Bocchoris; Amafis, or Anyfis;Atftifanes, or Sabacon; * twelve contemporary kings; Pfammi-tichus; ’<* Apries; Amafis. To which, if in their proper

places you add Nitocris, Afychis, Sethon, Nechus, ; and Pfammis,you will have the catalogue of Herodotus.

LIV. The dynafties of Manetho and Eratofthenes feem to befilled with many fuch names of kings, as Herodotus omitted.When it fhall be made appear, that any of them reigned inEgypt after the expullion of the fhepherds, and were differentfrom.the kings defcribed above, they may be inferted in theirproper places-

L,V. Egyyt was- conquered by the Ethiopians under Sabacon,about the beginning of the aera of Nabonalfar, or perhaps thr^e.or four years before; that is, about three hundred years beforeHerodotus wrote his hiftory ; and about eighty years after thatconqueft, it was conquered again by the AlTyrians under Aflfer-hadon : and the hiftory of Egypt fet down by Herodotus fromthe time of this laft conqueft, is right both as to the n umber, andorder, and names of the kings, and as to the length of theirreigns : and therein he is now followed by hiftorians, being theonly author who hath given us fo good a hiftory of Egypt forthat interval of time. If his hiftory of the earlier times be lefsaccurate, it was becaufe the archives of Egypt had fuffered muchduring the reign of the Ethiopians and Aflyrians : and it is notlikely that the priefts of Egypt, who lived two or three hun-dred years after the days of Herodotus, could mend the matter.

On the contrary, after Cambyfes had carried away the records ofEgypt, the priefts were daily feigning new kings, to make theirgods and nation look ancient; as is manifeft: by comparing Hero-dotus with Diodorus Siculus, and both of them with what Platorelates out of the poem of Solon : which poern makes the wars

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(*) See the i8th dynafty.

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