_Lycurgus_ King of
_Thrace_, and _Pentheus_ the grandson of _Cadmus_; gave the Kingdom of
_Lycurgus_ to _Tharops_; and one of his minstrells, called by the _Greeks_
_Calliope_, to _Oeagrus_ the son of _Tharops_; and of _Oeagrus_ and
_Calliope_ was born _Orpheus_, who sailed with the _Argonauts_: this
_Bacchus_ was therefore contemporary to _Sesostris_; and both being Kings
of _Egypt_, and potent at sea, and great conquerors, and carrying on their
conquests into _India_ and _Thrace_, they must be one and the same man.

The antient _Greeks_, who made the fables of the Gods, related that _Io_
the daughter of _Inachus_ was carried into _Egypt_; and there became the
_Egyptian Isis_; and that _Apis_ the son of _Phoroneus_ after death became
the God _Serapis_; and some said that _Epaphus_ was the son of _Io_:
_Serapis_ and _Epaphus_ are _Osiris_, and therefore _Isis_ and _Osiris_, in
the opinion of the ancient _Greeks_ who made the fables of the Gods, were
not above two or three Generations older than the _Argonautic_ expedition.
_Dicaearchus_, as he is cited by the scholiast upon _Apollonius_, [236]
represents them two Generations older than _Sesostris_, saying that after
_Orus_ the son of _Osiris_ and _Isis_, Reigned _Sesonchosis_. He seems to
have followed the opinion of the people of _Naxus_, who made _Bacchus_ two
Generations older than _Theseus_, and for that end feigned two _Minos's_
and two _Ariadnes_; for by the consent of all antiquity _Osiris_ and
_Bacchus_ were one and the same King of _Egypt_: this is affirmed by the
_Egyptians_, as well as by the _Greeks_; and some of the antient
Mythologists, as _Eumolpus_ and _Orpheus_, [237] called _Osiris_ by the
names of _Dionysus_ and _Sirius_. _Osiris_ was King of all _Egypt_, and a
great conqueror, and came over the _Hellespont_ in the days of
_Triptolemus_, and subdued _Thrace_, and there killed _Lycurgus_; and
therefore his expedition falls in with that of the great _Bacchus_.
_Osiris_, _Bacchus_ and _Sesostris_ lived about the same time, and by the
relation of historians were all of them Kings of all _Egypt_, and Reigned
at _Thebes_, and adorned that city, and were very potent by land and sea:
all three were great conquerors, and carried on their conquests by land
through _Asia_ as far as _India_: all three came over the _Hellespont_ and
were there in danger of losing their army: all three conquered _Thrace_,
and there put a stop to their victories, and returned back fr