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Show 514, The fecond Bookeof the frlpare §@uaea Gj§. 2 ~ -Cuar, 25.503. SIF Now. althoughitbe fo, that tl 1eréckoning fals out righ SE Rs 1 Of Achertes'; whether he were Vchoreus that was the eichth from Ofymandyas, ofOly mandyas avd his Tombe. I: this bufinefle I hold it vaine to bee too curious,.. For who canhc ypetoattaineto the perfet knowledgewof the truth, When as Disdorws varies from Herodotus, Eye -[ebins, from bothof them ; and late Writers, that‘ haue fought to gatherthe truth out of thefe and others, finde no one with whomthey can agree ¢ In this caf Annis would doe goodferuice,, if a man could trufthim, But it is enough to bee be olding t, between thetimesiof lofeph & Acherrestfor Acherres was the eight im order) chat reignedafterthe 8tea t Orws;whofe Viceroy Iofeph was) yerwill Vheteby feeke, neither té-fortifie taine'oyVN€ coni eure,as touching Jofeph, nor to infer anylikelihoodofAcherres his being Vchorews, F 5 orit might well be,that Memphis was built by fome fich King as was Geboar, Lieute€Man t Vato the sober. Hip, Caliph Elcaiz; who hauing to his Mafters y , and manyother vfe conquered Egypt Coun- Afric buy trics,did build, not farfrommold Memphis, thegr eat City of Cairo ‘corruptelyfo pronounced) n aming it El Cahira, t! at 18, an enforcin g, or an itnperious Miftreffe, thou he himfelfe were a Dalmatian ftaue, gh $e to him, whenothers doeeither fay nothing, or that which may, tuft ly be fulpested, I ; will therefore hold my felf contented,withthe pleafure that he hat h done mein faying fomewhatofOfiris, fis, Orws,andthofe antiquities remoued fo farre out of fight: as tor the Kings following the departureof Ifrael out of Eg pt, itfhall faffice, that Herodotus, Diodorus, and Exfebius, haue not beenefilent, and that Reimeceis hath takenpaincs, to rangeinto fome good orderthe namesthat are extantin thefe,orclfe found {catering in others. of the Hiftory of the World, | From the departure of Irael out ofEgypt, vnto the teigne of Thasris (whois gene- rally taken to be the fame that the Greekes call Protexs\there is little or no difagreement about the Egyptian Kings. Wherefore fet downthe fame whichare found in En(ebin, @ and gine to cuery one the famelengthofreigne, Acherres wasthe firft of thefe,who fucceeded vato Chencres, that perifhed inthe Red Sea. This king feemes to Reinecciusto be the fame whom Diedoruscals Vchorens, the founder ofMemphis. But whereas mention is found in Diodorus of a great king,named Ofjmandyas, from whom Veboreusis faid tobe the eighth; it will either hardlyfollow, that Tiraus(as Reineccius coniectures)was the great Ofymandyas; or elfe that this Acherres Wwas/choreus : for the diftance betweene them Was morethan eight generations. der- cator indgeth Ofjmandyas to haue bin the husband ofAncheres, Orus the feconds daughters thinking that Mazethon (cited by 1afephus) doth omit his name,andinfert his wiues, intothe Catologue ofKings,becaufe he was King in his wiues right. As for /chorews, itso troubles not Mercator to finde himthe eighth from this man: forhe takes Ozdons,notto fignifie in this place of Diedore(as that Greeke word elfe doth) the eighth, but tobean Egyptian n ame;belonging alfoto Vchorexs, who might haue had two names,as manyof thereft had, I will not vexe mybraines in the vnprofitable fearch of this, and thelike inextricable doubts. Allthat Diodore hath found ofthis Ofjmandias, was wroughtvpon his monument; the moft thereofin figures, which Ithinke the Egyptians did fabulouf ly expound. For whereasthere was pouttraieda great Army withthe fiege ofa Town, the captiuitie of the people,and the triumph of the Conqueror ; all this, the Egyptians faid to denote the conqueft of Badtria made by that King: which howlikelyit was, let others iudge. I holdthis goodly peece of worke, which fo particularly de 4 {eribes, to haue beene erected for a common place of buriall,Déedore tothe ancient Kings and Queenes ofEgypt, and to their Viceroyes ; whileft yet they were not fo ambitious, as cucty one to haue his owne particular monument, ftriuing therein to othets. This appeares bythe many ftatuaes, therein placed, by the Wars, theexceedall indgementleate, thereceiuing of Tribute, the offering Sacrifice to God, the account ofReuennues, ane plenty ofall Cattell and Foode 3 all which were there curioufly wrought, ieuerall Offices of aGouernour. On the Tombe of O/fjmandyas wasthis fhewingM infcriptio™ 4am Ofymandyas King of Kings 5 Hany defire to know what Lam, or where 1 lie, let bin ate ceedfome of my workes. Let themthat hopeto exceede his workes, labourto knowWi he was. But fince by thofe words, Or where Tlye, it fhould feeme that hee lay not thete$? interred, we may Jawfully fafpeé that it was lofeph, whofe body was preferued among the Hebrewes,to be buried inthe Land of Canaan,& this emptyMonument might king Oras, who out-liued him,ereé in honor ofhis high deferts,among the royalfepulchtts Towhichpurpofe,the PlentyofCattell, and allmanner ofyiands, had good The name ofOfjmandyas doth nothin derthis coniecture. feeing fofeph had onenet ; pivento himby for €xpounding dmight,ypon further ee haue another, to Pharaoh, his increafe ofhonor. Asthedream for that ftile, King ofKings, it was perhaps! more than Beglerbeg, asthe Turkifh Baffaesare called,that is,Great aboue the Gre §. IIL. V ofChertes, Armeus;Rameffes, azd Amenophis. OfMyr is, endthe Lake that beares bis name. Hen Acherres had re igned eight years , Cherves fic ceed domefifteene years : then reigned 4rmeus fine years ed 8 held the king, after him Rimeffes, threefcoreand eight. Of Armexs and Rameff Y es is that Hiftorie vnderftood by Bafebins, whichis common among the Greeke s, ‘vnderthe natiies of Darvas ands£> gyptes. For ivis faid that Dawaus » being expelled ont of Egypt by his brother, fledinto Greece,where he obtained the kingdome of Argos thathe had vpon feeming reconciliation, hee gattein marriagetohis broth fifty Daughters, whom ers fifty fons, bute coms manded euery one ofthem to kill her husband the Arf one ofhis Daughters, did faue her husband Lynteusandnight ; ‘that onely Hypermneitva, fuffered.hinmtoefcape » finally That forthis fa, all the bloudy fi fters; when theyd nifhment in Hell, to filla leaking veffell with water.ied, were enioyncd this foolifh pus Thereigne Of Dawais in Atgos was indeed inthis age; but thatArmenssvas Danaus 3& Kame(fes,Aizyptens ; is mote than Reineccéus belecti es : herather takes Armews to hane bin Myrés, or Merits, who caufed the great laketo bee made which bearés his rlame.'For my Ownpart,as Ican eafily beleeue.th at he which fled y' > out ofEeyptinto Greece,wasa'man 3° «oF fuch qual itie asthe Seldan sazar, of whom we {pake before s fodo I not find how info fhort a reigne, as fiue years, a workeofthat labou quired yntothe Lake of Myris, and the Monuments rcould be finithed, which was retherin ; wherof his own Sepulchre and his wiues being fome part, it is manifef fore of Myris, and of all other Kings; whofet that he was not buried in Argos. Whereageis yncertainie, and of whofe reignes we haue no affurance, I inaytruly fay, that of the houfe ofPharaoh, {ceing that their great workes arenot enough to prouethent greater deeds or more abfolute, than leferb, who boug htall the people of Egypt as bond-men, andall their werethofe of land for bread : of Gehoar,wtno founde d Cairo ; andofSavar,who made the Country Tributarie 3 tformed by none ofthem. go Pe Tefhall therefore be were enough tofet down the lengthoftheir reignes, whom wee finde to hae followed oneanotherin order of fucceff ion': but in rehearfing the gteat a@s whichwere perfor Xings or no. med, I will not ftandto examine, ‘Wwhetherthey that did them were The Lak eof Myris,is, by the report of. Diodereand Heredetus, three thoufand fixe ¢, andfifty fadomes deepe. Ie fertied toreceine the waters of Nilus; when the oue r-f fupply the defe&, by let loy V, being too great, was harmefull tothe Countrie * and to ting ont t he waters ofthe Lake, when the Riuerdid nottifé Ligh h eno enough ust : In Openin hig ine g thethe fluces ofthis i Lake,fcorthe lettin ing or out of" waters 50 {pent fifty ta le me ,were nts butthe Lakeit felf defraied that coft; feeinggiin the tribute impofed: on Fifh ‘taken ther; ein, was euery dayonetalent, which Myriszaue to-his Wifete vp= buy fveet oyntm ents, and oth er am: ents for her body. Inthe middeft of it was leftan Is land, wherein were the Sepuorn lchres of adprés and his Wife, and one¥ each ofthem.a Py Tamis, that wasa furlong, or (according to Heredotus) fiftie paces high ; hauing.onthe tops theirftatues! fitting in Thro n es. Ifinde notthe defcription of ‘this Lake.in Maps, antwerable to hundred furlongs inc ompaf the report of Hiftorians : yetis it verygreat. The yeeres of olnintas ate by Manethon diuided, b y inferting one Armefis (whom Eaf{chins omits) that fhouldiane reigne ~ yeare and odde monet hs ofthe time: but I hold notthis difference worthy of examinhe ati on, After LBs |