as to the Ocean and island _Erythra_ or _Gades_ in _Spain_; as
_Macrobius_ [271] informs us from _Panyasis_ and _Pherecydes_: and there he
conquered _Geryon_, and at the mouth of the _Straits_ set up the famous
Pillars.

[272] _Venit ad occasum mundique extrema Sesostris._

Then he returned through _Spain_ and the southern coasts of _France_ and
_Italy_, with the cattel of _Geryon_, his fleet attending him by sea, and
left in _Sicily_ the _Sicani_, a people which he had brought from _Spain_:
and after his father's death he built Temples to him in his conquests;
whence it came to pass, that _Jupiter Ammon_ was worshipped in _Ammonia_,
and _Ethiopia_, and _Arabia_, and as far as _India_, according to the [273]
Poet:

_Quamvis AEthiopum populis, Arabumque beatis_
_Gentibus, atque Indis unus sit Jupiter Ammon_.

The _Arabians_ worshipped only two Gods, _Coelus_, otherwise called
_Ouranus_, or _Jupiter Uranius_, and _Bacchus_: and these were _Jupiter
Ammon_ and _Sesac_, as above: and so also the people of _Meroe_ above
_Egypt_ [274] worshipped no other Gods but _Jupiter_ and _Bacchus_, and had
an Oracle of _Jupiter_, and these two Gods were _Jupiter Ammon_ and
_Osiris_, according to the language of _Egypt_.

At length _Sesostris_, in the fifth year of _Rehoboam_, came out of _Egypt_
with a great army of _Libyans_, _Troglodytes_ and _Ethiopians_, and spoiled
the Temple, and reduced _Judaea_ into servitude, and went on conquering,
first eastward toward _India_, which he invaded, and then westward as far
as _Thrace_: for _God had given him the kingdoms of the countries_, 2
_Chron._ xii. 2, 3, 8. In [275] this Expedition he spent nine years,
setting up pillars with inscriptions in all his conquests, some of which
remained in _Syria_ 'till the days of _Herodotus_. He was accompanied with
his son _Orus_, or _Apollo_, and with some singing women, called _the
Muses_, one of which, called _Calliope_, was the mother of _Orpheus_ an
_Argonaut_: and the two tops of the mountain _Parnassus_, which were very
high, were dedicated [276] the one to this _Bacchus_, and the other to his
son _Apollo_: whence _Lucan_; [277]

_Parnassus gemino petit aethera colle,_
_Mons Phoebo, Bromioque sacer._

In the fourteenth year of _Rehoboam_ he returned back into _Egypt_; leaving
_AEetes_ in _Colchis_, and his nephew _Prometheus_ at mount _Caucasus_, with
part of his army, to defend his conquests from the _Scythians_. _Apolloniu