thousand of the most warlike of them, against the enemy,
who met them. Yet did he not join battle with them; but thinking
that would be to fight against the gods, he returned back and came to
Memphis, where he took Apis and the other sacred animals which he had
sent for to him, and presently marched into Ethiopia, together with
his whole army and multitude of Egyptians; for the king of Ethiopia was
under an obligation to him, on which account he received him, and took
care of all the multitude that was with him, while the country supplied
all that was necessary for the food of the men. He also allotted cities
and villages for this exile, that was to be from its beginning during
those fatally determined thirteen years. Moreover, he pitched a camp for
his Ethiopian army, as a guard to king Amenophis, upon the borders of
Egypt. And this was the state of things in Ethiopia. But for the people
of Jerusalem, when they came down together with the polluted Egyptians,
they treated the men in such a barbarous manner, that those who saw how
they subdued the forementioned country, and the horrid wickedness they
were guilty of, thought it a most dreadful thing; for they did not only
set the cities and villages on fire but were not satisfied till they had
been guilty of sacrilege, and destroyed the images of the gods, and used
them in roasting those sacred animals that used to be worshipped, and
forced the priests and prophets to be the executioners and murderers of
those animals, and then ejected them naked out of the country. It was
also reported that the priest, who ordained their polity and their laws,
was by birth of Hellopolls, and his name Osarsiph, from Osyris, who was
the god of Hellopolls; but that when he was gone over to these people,
his name was changed, and he was called Moses."

27. This is what the Egyptians relate about the Jews, with much more,
which I omit for the sake of brevity. But still Manetho goes on, that
"after this, Amenophis returned back from Ethiopia with a great army,
as did his son Ahampses with another army also, and that both of them
joined battle with the shepherds and the polluted people, and beat them,
and slew a great many of them, and pursued them to the bounds of
Syria." These and the like accounts are written by Manetho. But I will
demonstrate that he trifles, and tells arrant lies, after I have made a
distinction which will relate to what I am going to say about him;
for this Manetho had gr