Sesostris being brought up to hard labour by his father Ammon, warred first under his father, being the Hero or Hercules of the Egyptians during his father’s Reign, and afterward their King:  under his father, whilst he was very young, he invaded and conquered Troglodytica, and thereby secured the harbour of the Red Sea, near Coptos in Egypt, and then he invaded Ethiopia, and carried on his conquest southward, as far as to the region bearing cinnamon:  and his father by the assistance of the Edomites having built a fleet on the Red Sea, he put to sea, and coasted Arabia Faelix, going to the Persian Gulph and beyond, and in those countries set up Columns with inscriptions denoting his conquests; and particularly he Set up a Pillar at Dira, a promontory in the straits of the Red Sea, next Ethiopia, and two Pillars in India, on the mountains near the mouth of the rivers Ganges; so [269] Dionysius: 

[Greek:  Entha te kai stelai, Thebaigeneos Dionysou] [Greek:  Hestasin pymatoio para rhoon Okeanoio,] [Greek:  Indon hystatioisin en ouresin; entha te Ganges] [Greek:  Leukon hydor Nyssaion epi platamona kylindei.]

Ubi etiamnum columnae Thebis geniti Bacchi Stant extremi juxta fluxum Oceani Indorum ultimis in montibus:  ubi & Ganges Claram aquam Nyssaeam ad planitiem devolvit.

After these things he invaded Libya, and fought the Africans with clubs, and thence is painted with a club in his hand:  so [270] Hyginus; Afri & AEgyptii primum fustibus dimicaverunt, postea Belus Neptuni filius gladio belligeratus est, unde bellum dictum est:  and after the conquest of Libya, by which Egypt was furnished with horses, and furnished Solomon and his friends; he prepared a fleet on the Mediterranean, and went on westward upon the coast of Afric, to search those countries, as far as to the Ocean and island Erythra or Gades in Spain; as Macrobius [271] informs us from Panyasis and Pherecydes:  and there he conquered Geryon, and at the mouth of the Straits set up the famous Pillars.

  [272] Venit ad occasum mundique extrema Sesostris.

Then he returned through Spain and the southern coasts of France and Italy, with the cattel of Geryon, his fleet attending him by sea, and left in Sicily the Sicani, a people which he had brought from Spain:  and after his father’s death he built Temples to him in his conquests; whence it came to pass, that Jupiter Ammon was worshipped in Ammonia, and Ethiopia, and Arabia, and as far as India, according to the [273] Poet: 

  Quamvis AEthiopum populis, Arabumque beatis
  Gentibus, atque Indis unus sit Jupiter Ammon.