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DANAUS AND iEGYPTUS.
[Part II.
ously mentioned in the traditions, is Cadmus, the
founder of Boeotian Thebes. Respecting him there are
different narrations; some saying that he came from
Phoenicia; and others, from Egypt. In the narrative
of the Exodus given by Diodorus, Cadmus, as well as
Danaus, is made a leader of the Shepherds, leaving
Egypt at the time that Moses and the Israelites came
out. Perhaps Cadmus was of a tribe of Phoenicians
settled in Egypt, or a leader of an offshoot from a
colony of Shepherds which had left Egypt and settled
in Phoenicia.
Danaus, according to the account of the Exodus
given by Diodorus Siculus, as I have just remarked,
was one of the Shepherd-chiefs. That he left Egypt
and came to Greece, is universally stated by the
ancient writers who relate his traditional history.
Manetho calls him " Armais, the brother of Sethdsis,"
whom he identifies with ^Egyptus; and he gives an
account of the offences for which he was obliged to
leave Egypt. Sethosis, or Sethos, the Sethee I. of the
monuments, and first King of the Nineteenth Dynasty,
cannot be iEgyptus; and therefore Manetho is evidently
wrong in identifying his brother Armais, whose hiero-
glyphic name has not yet been found, with Danaus.
Herodotus and Diodorus Siculus say that the brother
of Sesostris plotted against him on his return from con-
quest, evidently speaking of the person called by Ma-
netho Armais. It is especially worthy of notice that,
according to Herodotus, King Amasis, of the Twenty-
sixth Dynasty, made gifts to the temple of Minerva at
Lindus, because it was said to have been built by the
daughters of Danaus, when they fled from the sons of
jEgyptus*.
* Herodotus, II., 182.
DANAUS AND iEGYPTUS.
[Part II.
ously mentioned in the traditions, is Cadmus, the
founder of Boeotian Thebes. Respecting him there are
different narrations; some saying that he came from
Phoenicia; and others, from Egypt. In the narrative
of the Exodus given by Diodorus, Cadmus, as well as
Danaus, is made a leader of the Shepherds, leaving
Egypt at the time that Moses and the Israelites came
out. Perhaps Cadmus was of a tribe of Phoenicians
settled in Egypt, or a leader of an offshoot from a
colony of Shepherds which had left Egypt and settled
in Phoenicia.
Danaus, according to the account of the Exodus
given by Diodorus Siculus, as I have just remarked,
was one of the Shepherd-chiefs. That he left Egypt
and came to Greece, is universally stated by the
ancient writers who relate his traditional history.
Manetho calls him " Armais, the brother of Sethdsis,"
whom he identifies with ^Egyptus; and he gives an
account of the offences for which he was obliged to
leave Egypt. Sethosis, or Sethos, the Sethee I. of the
monuments, and first King of the Nineteenth Dynasty,
cannot be iEgyptus; and therefore Manetho is evidently
wrong in identifying his brother Armais, whose hiero-
glyphic name has not yet been found, with Danaus.
Herodotus and Diodorus Siculus say that the brother
of Sesostris plotted against him on his return from con-
quest, evidently speaking of the person called by Ma-
netho Armais. It is especially worthy of notice that,
according to Herodotus, King Amasis, of the Twenty-
sixth Dynasty, made gifts to the temple of Minerva at
Lindus, because it was said to have been built by the
daughters of Danaus, when they fled from the sons of
jEgyptus*.
* Herodotus, II., 182.