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Memnon. 173 monument and worship the Greeks found there, we may with equal probability suppose that they applied the name of Mem- non, with which they were familiar, to some object of Syrian devotion, which was foreign to them, but which suggested the comparison by its history, attributes, or rites. And more par- ticularly I conceive that the Egyptian Maneros, who presents many points of resemblance, on the one side to Memnon, and on the other to the Syrian Adonis, might have served as the middle term in such a comparison ^°. At all events these in- stances cannot suffice to establish that gigantic system of Memnonian worship, by which Mr J.'s imagination connects Ilium with Susa and Ecbatana. As it was the resemblance already pointed out by others between the names and characters of Menu, Menes, Minos, &c. that led me to the view here taken of the Greek Memnon, so it may perhaps receive some additional recommendation from a comparison between the latter and one of the most celebrated of the former personages, the Cretan lawgiver. As such Minos certainly reminds us much more of the In- dian and Egyptian sages. Indeed his connexion with the latter appears much closer than it really was, in the legends of the Egyptian priesthood or their Greek admirers. For like the Egyptian Memnon he is made to build a labyrinth, which has now vanished again into air ^^ : and on the other hand Sesostris, not content with conquering all Asia, sub- dues the greater part of the Cyclades, like Minos, and con- cludes his expedition in the Minoan period of nine years •^. But Minos also resembles Memnon in two main points, which are not like the former of late invention : in the beauty of ^° He was the only son of old Menes (Herod, ii. 79), as^ according to Jablonski, Opusc. I. p. 178, his name imports. He was cut off like his father by an untimely death : though Herodotus does not say that he was swallowed by a hippopotamus. In Plesychius, Mavepcd^, Jablonski proposes to read deooyi]crai. But since Hesych. adds, Kal Old tovto irdcnu dvd crTOfxa yevea-dai, and Pollux says, iv. 54, AlyvTrTLois JJL6V o MaL'6,oco9 yecopyla^ eu/^c— 1/9, Movcrdiv /xa6?;Ti]s, ALTvepcrrj^ ok ^pv^lv, and again I. 38 lvo9 Kal XiTVGpcn]^ crKaTravewu ojoal Kal yecopydivy I am led to conjecture yewpyijaai. At all events Wyttenbach should have considered this^ before he jomed in the outcry against the luxury introduced by Menes. ^' Hoeck Kreta i. p. 62 has shewn very satisfactorily that the Cretan labyrinth is a late fabrication. •'- Diodor. i. 5o. ti)u XoLTn}y ' Arriav ciiraaav innJKOoiJ GTronjcraTo Kal rwv KvKXn- owv v^rrwv Trt9 TrXctrrTrtv, — rrfM/TcXt'crav t)]u aTpaTeiau ev crecrii/ Qvvea,