us, that in _Coptic_ this City is called _Manphtha_; whence by contraction
came its Names _Moph_, _Noph_.

While _Amenophis_ staid in _Ethiopia_, _Egypt_ was in its greatest
distraction: and then it was, as I conceive, that the _Greeks_ hearing
thereof contrived the _Argonautic_ Expedition, and sent the flower of
_Greece_ in the Ship _Argo_ to persuade the Nations upon the Sea Coasts of
the _Euxine_ and _Mediterranean Seas_ to revolt from _Egypt_, and set up
for themselves, as the _Libyans_, _Ethiopians_ and _Jews_ had done before.
And this is a further argument for placing that Expedition about 43 years
after the Death of _Solomon_; this Period being in the middle of the
distraction of _Egypt_. _Amenophis_ might return from _Ethiopia_, and
conquer the lower _Egypt_ about eight years after that Expedition, and
having settled his Government over it, he might, for putting a stop to the
revolting of the eastern Nations, lead his Army into _Persia_, and leave
_Proteus_ at _Memphis_ to govern _Egypt_ in his absence, and stay some time
at _Susa_, and build the _Memnonia_, fortifying that City, as the
Metropolis of his Dominion in those parts.

_Androgeus_ the son of _Minos_, upon his overcoming in the _Athenæa_, or
quadrennial Games at _Athens_ in his youth, was perfidiously slain out of
envy: and _Minos_ thereupon made war upon the _Athenians_, and compelled
them to send every eighth year to _Crete_ seven beardless Youths, and as
many young Virgins, to be given as a reward to him that should get the
Victory in the like Games instituted in _Crete_ in honour of _Androgeus_.
These Games seem to have been celebrated in the beginning of the
_Octaeteris_, and the _Athenæa_ in the beginning of the _Tetraeteris_, then
brought into _Crete_ and _Greece_ by the _Phœnicians_ and upon the third
payment of the tribute of children, that is, about seventeen years after
the said war was at an end, and about nineteen or twenty years after the