The Arabians worshipped only two Gods, Coelus, otherwise called Ouranus, or Jupiter Uranius, and Bacchus:  and these were Jupiter Ammon and Sesac, as above:  and so also the people of Meroe above Egypt [274] worshipped no other Gods but Jupiter and Bacchus, and had an Oracle of Jupiter, and these two Gods were Jupiter Ammon and Osiris, according to the language of Egypt.

At length Sesostris, in the fifth year of Rehoboam, came out of Egypt with a great army of Libyans, Troglodytes and Ethiopians, and spoiled the Temple, and reduced Judaea into servitude, and went on conquering, first eastward toward India, which he invaded, and then westward as far as Thrace:  for God had given him the kingdoms of the countries, 2 Chron. xii. 2, 3, 8.  In [275] this Expedition he spent nine years, setting up pillars with inscriptions in all his conquests, some of which remained in Syria ’till the days of Herodotus.  He was accompanied with his son Orus, or Apollo, and with some singing women, called the Muses, one of which, called Calliope, was the mother of Orpheus an Argonaut:  and the two tops of the mountain Parnassus, which were very high, were dedicated [276] the one to this Bacchus, and the other to his son Apollo:  whence Lucan; [277]

          Parnassus gemino petit aethera colle,
  Mons Phoebo, Bromioque sacer.

In the fourteenth year of Rehoboam he returned back into Egypt; leaving AEetes in Colchis, and his nephew Prometheus at mount Caucasus, with part of his army, to defend his conquests from the Scythians. Apollonius Rhodius [278] and his scholiast tell us, that Sesonchosis King of all Egypt, that is Sesac, invading all Asia, and a great part of Europe, peopled many cities which he took; and that AEa, the Metropolis of Colchis, remained stable ever since his days with the posterity of those Egyptians_ which he placed there, and that they preserved pillars or tables in which all the journies and the bounds of sea and land were described, for the use of them that were to go any whither_:  these tables therefore gave a beginning to Geography.

Sesostris upon his returning home [279] divided Egypt by measure amongst the Egyptians; and this gave a beginning to Surveying and Geometry:  and [280] Jamblicus derives this division of Egypt, and beginning of Geometry, from the Age of the Gods of Egypt. Sesostris also [281] divided Egypt into 36 Nomes or Counties, and dug a canal from the Nile to the head city of every Nome, and with the earth dug out of it, he caused the ground of the city