_Erechtheus_. _Theseus_, in the time of the
_Argonautic_ expedition, was of about 50 years of age, and so was born
about the 33d year of _Solomon_: for he stole _Helena_ [41] just before
that expedition, being then 50 years old, and she but seven, or as some say
ten. _Pirithous_ the son of _Ixion_ helped _Theseus_ to steal _Helena_, and
then [42] _Theseus_ went with _Pirithous_ to steal _Persephone_, the
daughter of _Aidoneus_, or _Orcus_, King of the _Molossians_, and was taken
in the action: and whilst he lay in prison, _Castor_ and _Pollux_ returning
from the _Argonautic_ expedition, released their sister _Helena_, and
captivated _AEthra_ the mother of _Theseus_. Now the daughters of _Danaus_
being contemporary to _Theseus_, and some of their sons being _Argonauts_,
_Danaus_ with his daughters fled from his brother _Sesostris_ into _Greece_
about one Generation before the _Argonautic_ expedition; and therefore
_Sesostris_ returned into _Egypt_ in the Reign of _Rehoboam_. He came out
of _Egypt_ in the fifth year of _Rehoboam_, [43] and spent nine years in
that expedition, against the Eastern Nations and _Greece_; and therefore
returned back into _Egypt_, in the fourteenth year of _Rehoboam_. _Sesac_
and _Sesostris_ were therefore Kings of all _Egypt_, at one and the same
time: and they agree not only in the time, but also in their actions and
conquests. God gave _Sesac_ [Hebrew: mmlkvt h'rtsvt] _the Kingdoms of the
lands_, 2 Chron. xii. Where _Herodotus_ describes the expedition of
_Sesostris_, _Josephus_ [44] tells us that he described the expedition of
_Sesac_, and attributed his actions to _Sesostris_, erring only in the name
of the King. Corruptions of names are frequent in history; _Sesostris_ was
otherwise called _Sesochris_, _Sesochis_, _Sesoosis_, _Sethosis_,
_Sesonchis_, _Sesonchosis_. Take away the _Greek_ termination, and the
names become _Sesost_, _Sesoch_, _Sesoos_, _Sethos_, _Sesonch_: which names
differ very little from _Sesach_. _Sesonchis_ and _Sesach_ differ no more
than _Memphis_ and _Moph_, two names of the same city. _Josephus_ [45]
tells us also, from _Manetho_, that _Sethosis_ was the brother of _Armais_,
and that these brothers were otherwise called _AEgyptus_ and _Danaus_; and
that upon the return of _Sethosis_ or _AEgyptus_, from his great conquests
into _Egypt_, _Armais_ or _Danaus_ fled from him into _Greece_.

_Egypt_ was at first divided into many small Kingdoms, like other nations;
and gre