place the Naphthuhim, a people sprung from Mizraim, Gen. x. 13; and thence Neptune and his wife Neptys might have their names, the words Neptune, Neptys and Naphthuhim, signifying the King, Queen, and people of the sea-coasts.  The Greeks tell us that Japetus was the father of Atlas, and Bochart derives Japetus and Neptune from the same original:  he and his son Atlas are celebrated in the ancient fables for making war upon the Gods of Egypt; as when Lucian [314] saith that Corinth being full of fables, tells the fight of Sol and Neptune, that is, of Apollo and Python, or Orus and Typhon; and where Agatharcides [315] relates how the Gods of Egypt fled from the Giants, ’till the Titans came in and saved them by putting Neptune to flight; and where Hyginus [316] tells the war between the Gods of AEgypt, and the Titans commanded by Atlas.

The Titans are the posterity of Titaea, some of whom under Hercules assisted the Gods, others under Neptune and Atlas warred against them:  for which reason, saith Plutarch, [317] the Priests of Egypt_ abominated the sea, and had Neptune in no honour_.  By Hercules, I understand here the general of the forces of Thebais and Ethiopia whom the Gods or great men of Egypt called to their assistance, against the Giants or great men of Libya, who had slain Osiris and invaded Egypt:  for Diodorus [318] saith that when Osiris_ made his expedition over the world, he left his kinsman Hercules general of his forces over all his dominions, and Antaeus governor of Libya and Ethiopia_. Antaeus Reigned over all Afric to the Atlantic Ocean, and built Tingis or Tangieres:  Pindar [319] tells us that he Reigned at Irasa a town of Libya, where Cyrene was afterwards built:  he invaded Egypt and Thebais; for he was beaten by Hercules and the Egyptians near Antaea or Antaeopolis, a town of Thebais; and Diodorus [320] tells us that this town had its name from Antaeus_, whom Hercules slew in the days of Osiris_. Hercules overthrew him several times, and every time he grew stronger by recruits from Libya, his mother earth; but Hercules intercepted his recruits, and at length slew him.  In these wars Hercules took the Libyan world from Atlas, and made Atlas pay tribute out of his golden orchard, the Kingdom of Afric. Antaeus and Atlas were both of them sons of Neptune both of them Reigned over all Libya and Afric, between Mount Atlas