the son of _Neptune_, and of _Libya_ the daughter of _Epaphus__.
By these things the later _Egyptians_ seem to have made two _Belus's_, the
one the father of _Osiris_, _Isis_, and _Neptune_, the other the son of
_Neptune_, and father of _AEgyptus_ and _Danaus_: and hence came the opinion
of the people of _Naxus_, that there were two _Minos's_ and two _Ariadnes_,
the one two Generations older than the other; which we have confuted. The
father of _AEgyptus_ and _Danaus_ was the father of _Osiris_, _Isis_, and
_Typhon_; and _Typhon_ was not the grandfather of _Neptune_, but _Neptune_
himself.

_Sesostris_ being brought up to hard labour by his father _Ammon_, warred
first under his father, being the Hero or _Hercules_ of the _Egyptians_
during his father's Reign, and afterward their King: under his father,
whilst he was very young, he invaded and conquered _Troglodytica_, and
thereby secured the harbour of the _Red Sea_, near _Coptos_ in _Egypt_, and
then he invaded _Ethiopia_, and carried on his conquest southward, as far
as to the region bearing cinnamon: and his father by the assistance of the
_Edomites_ having built a fleet on the _Red Sea_, he put to sea, and
coasted _Arabia Faelix_, going to the _Persian Gulph_ and beyond, and in
those countries set up Columns with inscriptions denoting his conquests;
and particularly he Set up a Pillar at _Dira_, a promontory in the straits
of the _Red Sea_, next _Ethiopia_, and two Pillars in _India_, on the
mountains near the mouth of the rivers _Ganges_; so [269] _Dionysius_:

[Greek: Entha te kai stelai, Thebaigeneos Dionysou]
[Greek: Hestasin pymatoio para rhoon Okeanoio,]
[Greek: Indon hystatioisin en ouresin; entha te Ganges]
[Greek: Leukon hydor Nyssaion epi platamona kylindei.]

_Ubi etiamnum columnae Thebis geniti Bacchi_
_Stant extremi juxta fluxum Oceani_
_Indorum ultimis in montibus: ubi & Ganges_
_Claram aquam Nyssaeam ad planitiem devolvit_.

After these things he invaded _Libya_, and fought the _Africans_ with
clubs, and thence is painted with a club in his hand: so [270] _Hyginus_;
_Afri & AEgyptii primum fustibus dimicaverunt, postea Belus Neptuni filius
gladio belligeratus est, unde bellum dictum est_: and after the conquest of
_Libya_, by which _Egypt_ was furnished with horses, and furnished
_Solomon_ and his friends; he prepared a fleet on the _Mediterranean_, and
went on westward upon the coast of _Afric_, to search those countries, as
far