r Ammon._

I place the end of the Reign of _Sesac_ upon the fifth year of _Asa_,
because in that year _Asa_ became free from the Dominion of _Egypt_, so as
to be able to fortify _Judaea_, and raise that great Army with which he met
_Zerah_, and routed him. _Osiris_ was therefore slain in the fifth year of
_Asa_, by his brother _Japetus_, whom the _Egyptians_ called _Typhon_,
_Python_, and _Neptune_: and then the _Libyans_, under _Japetus_ and his
son _Atlas_, invaded _Egypt_, and raised that famous war between the Gods
and Giants, from whence the _Nile_ had the name of _Eridanus_: but _Orus_
the son of _Osiris_, by the assistance of the _Ethiopians_, prevailed, and
Reigned 'till the 15th year of _Asa_: and then the _Ethiopians_ under
_Zerah_ invaded _Egypt_, drowned _Orus_ in _Eridanus_, and were routed by
_Asa_, so that _Zerah_ could not recover himself. _Zerah_ was succeeded by
_Amenophis_, a youth of the Royal Family of the _Ethiopians_, and I think
the son of _Zerah_: but the People of the lower _Egypt_ revolted from him,
and set up _Osarsiphus_ over them, and called to their assistance a great
body of men from _Phoenicia_, I think a part of the Army of _Asa_; and
thereupon _Amenophis_, with the remains of his father's Army of
_Ethiopians_, retired from the lower _Egypt_ to _Memphis_, and there turned
the River _Nile_ into a new channel, under a new bridge which he built
between two Mountains; and at the same time he built and fortified that
City against _Osarsiphus_, calling it by his own name, _Amenoph_ or
_Memphis_: and then he retired into _Ethiopia_, and stayed there thirteen
years; and then came back with a great Army, and subdued the lower _Egypt_,
expelling the People which had been called in from _Phoenicia_: and this I
take to be the second expulsion of the Shepherds. Dr. _Castel_ [83] tells
us, that in _Coptic_ this City is called _Manphtha_; whence by contraction
came its Names _Moph_, _Noph_.

While _Amenophis_ staid in _Ethiopia_, _Egypt_ was in its greatest
distraction: and then it was, as I conceive, that the _Greeks_ hearing
thereof contrived the _Argonautic_ Expedition, and sent the flower of
_Greece_ in the Ship _Argo_ to persuade the Nations upon the Sea Coasts of
the _Euxine_ and _Mediterranean Seas_ to revolt from _Egypt_, and set up
for themselves, as the _Libyans_, _Ethiopians_ and _Jews_ had done before.
And this is a further argument for placing that Expedition about 43 years
after the Deat