100 ON Tllii nEVOLUTIOV? OF 



iiuman knigs. According to Julius Africanu.*, they reached 5110, 

 and, according to Eusebius, to 4723 ; according to Syncellus, to 3555. 

 We may believe that the difference of names and figures was made by 

 copyists ; but Josephus cites at length a passage, the details of which 

 are manifestly contradictory to the extracts of his successors. 



A record, called the Antique *, and which some call anterior and 

 others posterior to Manetho, gives other calculations : the whole du- 

 ration of the kings is 36,525 years, of which the sun reigned 30,000, 

 the other gods 3,984, the demi-gods 217, only leaving for the human 

 race 2,339 years ; which gives only 113 generations, instead of the 

 340 of Herodotus. The astronomer Eratosthenes, a learned man of an 

 order different from that of Manetho, discovered and published under 

 Ptoiomoeus Evergetes, about 240 years before Christ, a particular list 

 of thirty-eight kings of Thebes, beginning with Menes, and continuing 

 for 1024 years. Of this we have an extract copied by Syncellus in 

 Apollodorus f . Scarcely any of the names which are there correspond 

 with the other list. 



Diodorus went to Egypt under Ptoiomoeus Auletes, about sixty years 

 before Christ, and consequently two centuries after Manetho, and four 

 after Herodotus. He also gleaned from the priests themselves the 

 history of the country, and he obtained it again in an entirely new 

 form J. 



It was not now Menes who built Memphis, but Uchoreus ; and long 

 before his time Busiris II. had built Thebes. The eighth ancestor of 

 Uchoreus, Osymandyas, obtained possession of Bactria, and subdued 

 revolts there. Long afterwards, Sesostris made still more extended 

 conquests ; he reached to the Ganges, and returned thence through 

 Seythia and the Tanais. Unfortunately these names of kings are un- 

 known to all pre\'ious historians, and no people that they had conquered 

 preserved the least remembrance of them. As to the gods and heroes, 

 according to Diodorus, they reigned 18,000 years, and the human 

 sovereigns 15,000 ; four hundred and seventy were Egyptians, four 

 Ethiopians, without counting Persians or Macedonians, The tales 

 with which the whole are intermingled do not otherwise yield in 

 childishness to those of Herodotus. 



In the eighteenth year of Christ, Germanicus, nephew of Tiberius, 

 attracted by a desire of knowing the antiquities of this celebrated 



* Syncell, p. 51. 



■f Ibid. p. 91 , et seq. 



1 Diodorus Sic. lib. i. sect. 2. 



