her Armais called Danaus."

16. This is Manetho's account. And evident it is from the number of
years by him set down belonging to this interval, if they be summed up
together, that these shepherds, as they are here called, who were
no other than our forefathers, were delivered out of Egypt, and came
thence, and inhabited this country, three hundred and ninety-three years
before Danaus came to Argos; although the Argives look upon him [12] as
their most ancient king Manetho, therefore, hears this testimony to two
points of the greatest consequence to our purpose, and those from the
Egyptian records themselves. In the first place, that we came out of
another country into Egypt; and that withal our deliverance out of it
was so ancient in time as to have preceded the siege of Troy almost a
thousand years; but then, as to those things which Manetbo adds, not
from the Egyptian records, but, as he confesses himself, from some
stories of an uncertain original, I will disprove them hereafter
particularly, and shall demonstrate that they are no better than
incredible fables.

17. I will now, therefore, pass from these records, and come to those
that belong to the Phoenicians, and concern our nation, and shall
produce attestations to what I have said out of them. There are then
records among the Tyrians that take in the history of many years,
and these are public writings, and are kept with great exactness, and
include accounts of the facts done among them, and such as concern their
transactions with other nations also, those I mean which were worth
remembering. Therein it was recorded that the temple was built by king
Solomon at Jerusalem, one hundred forty-three years and eight months
before the Tyrians built Carthage; and in their annals the building of
our temple is related; for Hirom, the king of Tyre, was the friend of
Solomon our king, and had such friendship transmitted down to him
from his forefathers. He thereupon was ambitious to contribute to the
splendor of this edifice of Solomon, and made him a present of one
hundred and twenty talents of gold. He also cut down the most excellent
timber out of that mountain which is called Libanus, and sent it to
him for adorning its roof. Solomon also not only made him many other
presents, by way of requital, but gave him a country in Galilee
also, that was called Chabulon. [13] But there was another passion, a
philosophic inclination of theirs, which cemented the friendship that