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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1832 Excerpt:...Aches 42 years. 8. Sephuris 30 years. 9. Cerpheres 26 years. Altogether 214 years. THE FOURTH DYNASTY. Of eight Memphite kings of a different race. 1. Soris reigned 29 years. 2. Suphis reigned 63 years. He built the largest pyramid which Herodotus says was constructed by Cheops. He was arrogant towards the gods, and wrote the sacred book; which is regarded by the Egyptians as a work of great importance. 3. Suphis reigned 66 years. 4. Mencheres 63 years. 5. Rhatœses 25 years. 6. Bicheris 22 years. 7. Sebercheres 7 years. 8. Thampthis 9 years. Altogether 284 years. THE FOURTH DYNASTY. ARMEN. HIERON. Quarta dynastia Memphitarum regum xvii. ex alia stirpe regni. Quorum tertius Suphis, qui macrnam illam pyramidem erexit, quam a Cheope factam Herodotus dicit: qui et superbus in Déos inventus est, usquedum eum hujusce rei pcenituit, et libros Sacrarii conscripsit; quos velut magnas opes habebant Aegyptii. De caeteris vero nihil memoria dignum scriptum est. Quique regnarunt annos Ccccxlviii. THE SECOND BOOK OF MANETHO. THE TWELFTH DYNASTY. Of seven Diospolite kings. 1. Geson Goses the son of Ammanemes. He reigned 46 years. 2. Ammanemes reigned 38 years. He was slain by his eunuchs. 3. Sesostris 48 years. He conquered all Asia in nine years, and Europe as far as Thrace, every where erecting monuments of his conquest of those nations: among the people which had acted bravely he set up cippi of a phallic nature, but among the degenerate female emblems of a similar description engraved upon pillars. By the Egyptians he is supposed to be the first after Osiris. п. Ammenemes, annis xxxvin. qui a suis eunuchis occisus est. ni. Sesostris, annis Xlviii. quem quatuor cubitorum, et palmorum trium, duorumque digitorum procerum fuisse dicunt. Hic totam Asiam ann...