ing it that it might not
improbably have arisen from real, though imperfect, knowledge.

The traditions with respect to Memnon serve very closely to connect Egypt
and Ethiopia with the country at the head of the Persian Gulf. Memnon,
King of Ethiopia, according to Hesiod and Pindar, is regarded by
'Eschylus as the son of a Cissian woman, and by Herodotus and others as
the founder of Susa. He leads an army of combined Susianians and
Ethiopians to the assistance of Priam, his father's brother, and, after
greatly distinguishing himself, perishes in one of the battles before
Troy. At the same time he is claimed as one of their monarchs by the
Ethiopians upon the Nile, and identified by the Egyptians with their
king, Amunoph III., whose statue became known as "the vocal Memnon."
Sometimes his expedition is supposed to have started from the African
Ethiopia, and to have proceeded by way of Egypt to its destination.
There were palaces, called "Memnonia," and supposed to have been built
by him, both in Egypt and at Susa; and there was a tribe, called
Memnones, near Meroe. Memnon thus unites the Eastern and the Western
Ethiopians; and the less we regard him as an historical personage, the
more must we view him as personifying the ethnic identity of the two
races.

The ordinary genealogies containing the name of Belus point in the same
direction, and serve more definitely to connect the Babylonians with the
Cushites of the Nile. Pherecydes, who is an earlier writer than
Herodotus, makes Agenor, the son of Neptune, marry Damno, the daughter of
Belus, and have issue Phoenix, Isaea, and Melia, of whom Melia marries
Danaus, and Isaea Aegyptus. Apollodorus, the disciple of Eratosthenes,
expresses the connection thus:--"Neptune took to wife Libya (or Africa),
and had issue Belus and Agenor. Belus married Anchinoe, daughter of
Nile, who gave birth to AEgyptus, Danaus, Cepheus, and Phineus. Agenor
married Telephassa, and had issue Europa, Cadmus, Phoenix, and Cilix."
Eupolemus, who professes to record the Babylonian tradition on the
subject, tells us that the first Belus, whom he identifies with Saturn,
had two sons, Belus and Canaan. Canaan begat the progenitor of the
Phoenicians (Phoenix?), who had two sons, Chum and Mestraim, the
ancestors respectively of the Ethiopians and the Egyptians. Charax of
Pergamus spoke of AEgyptus as the son of Belus. John of Antioch agrees
with Apollodorus, but makes certain additions. Accordi