846 On Scriptural and profane Accounts, &c. 
the river Bada, the situation of which is not well ascer- 
tained, Comp. Dictys Cret. v1.10. Others again referred 
it to the neighbourhood of Ptolemais ; Joseph. Bell. Jud. 
11. 10. 2. Others said that he had been buried at Susa; 
Zlian Anim. v. 1.; others in A&thiopia; Diodor. 8, 1. 
p- 136, Wess. ; while others aJledged that he was never 
buried at all, but changed into the celebrated vocal statue, 
which still appears among the ruins of Agyptian Thebes. 
Philostr, Icon. 1. p. 742. See Jablonski de Memnone. 
Is the inference to be drawn from this, that there were 
six Memnons, of whom these various traditions were res- 
pectively true, or that the variety of them shows that 
there was no decisive evidence for any. There is just as 
good reason for multiplying Memnons as Sardanapalli, 
and Freret, to have been consistent, should have extended 
his argument to them. The fact is, that Memnon, as Mr. 
Bryant and Jablonski have shown, was one of that mul- 
titudinous tribe of heroes, who owe their supposed histo- 
rical existence to titles of the Sun; never having lived 
in any country, he was the more easily referred to several, 
and in each, the ingenuity of the inhabitants readily as- 
signed him a sepulchre. 
