the _Nile_, and
divided his Kingdom amongst themselves; and the country bordering upon the
Ocean fell to the lot of _Atlas_, from whom the people were called
_Atlantides_. By _Uranus_ or _Jupiter Uranius_, _Hyperion_, _Basilea_,
_Helius_ and _Selene_, I understand _Jupiter Ammon_, _Osiris_, _Isis_,
_Orus_ and _Bubaste_; and by the sharing of the Kingdom of _Hyperion_
amongst his brothers the _Titans_, I understand the division of the earth
among the Gods mentioned in the Poem of _Solon_.

For _Solon_ having travelled into _Egypt_, and conversed with the Priests
of _Sais_; about their antiquities, wrote a Poem of what he had learnt, but
did not finish it; [309] and this Poem fell into the hands of _Plato_ who
relates out of it, that at the mouth of the _Straits_ near _Hercules_'s
Pillars there was an Island called _Atlantis_, the people of which, nine
thousand years before the days of _Solon_, reigned over _Libya_ as far as
_Egypt_; and over _Europe_ as far as the _Tyrrhene_ sea; and all this force
collected into one body invaded _Egypt_ and _Greece_, and whatever was
contained within the Pillars of _Hercules_, but was resisted and stopt by
the _Athenians_ and other _Greeks_, and thereby the rest of the nations not
yet conquered were preserved: he saith also that in those days the Gods,
having finished their conquests, divided the whole earth amongst
themselves, partly into larger, partly into smaller portions, and
instituted Temples and Sacred Rites to themselves; and that the Island
_Atlantis_ fell to the lot of _Neptune_, who made his eldest Son _Atlas_
King of the whole Island, a part of which was called _Gadir_; and that _in
the history of the said wars mention was made of _Cecrops_, _Erechtheus_,
_Erichthonius_, and others before _Theseus_, and also of the women who
warred with the men, and of the habit and statue of _Minerva_, the study of
war in those days being common to men and women_. By all these
circumstances it is manifest that these Gods were the _Dii magni majorum
gentium_, and lived between the age of _Cecrops_ and _Theseus_; and that
the wars which _Sesostris_ with his brother _Neptune_ made upon the nations
by land and sea, and the resistance he met with in _Greece_, and the
following invasion of _Egypt_ by _Neptune_, are here described; and how the
captains of _Sesostris_ shared his conquests amongst themselves, as the
captains of _Alexander_ the great did his conquests long after, and
instituting Tem