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163 Meiunoii. 163 mann, in the second volume of his Mythologus^^, has brought together a number of facts and observations, which might have been expected to have led him to the same conclusion ; and perhaps they would have done so, if he had not been dazzled by the captivating form into which Mr Jacobs has wrought his hypothesis, so that in another place^^ he thinks it scarcely possible to withhold assent from it. In the essay on the Minyae Buttmann'^s object is to render it probable that Minyas, the ancient king of Orchomenus, is a person of exactly the same mythical character with the Indian Menu, the Egyptian Menes, the Phrygian Men or Manes, and the Cretan Minos, with whom the history of their respec- tive countries begins, and he compares the Mannus of the Germans (Tacit. Germ. 2), the son of the god Tuisco, who was celebrated in the ancient songs of the nation. To this list I would add the conquering hero Memnon. I scarcely imagine that any reader will be startled by the slight va- riation in the form of his name from that of the above mentioned persons : but should this be the case, it will be sufficient to remember that Memnon is only a dilatation of Menon, and then to remark that in a Greek author quoted by Pliny the old king of Egypt occurs under the latter name^^. Indeed in this respect my hypothesis seems to have a considerable advantao-e over Mr J."'s. For the real au- dible name of the Egyptian god or hero whom he seeks to identify with Memnon, was not Amenophis but Phamenoph^^ 24 Vol. II. Ueber die Minyae der altesten Zeit. p. 232—241. ^5 I. p. 199. 26 There can be no doubt, I should think, about the person meant. N. H. vii. 56. Anticlides in Aegypto invenisse (literas) quemdam nomine Menona tradit xv. annis ante Phoroneum antiquissimum Graeciae regem. — Anticlides might well conclude that Menes was the inventor of letters, since his son Athothis wrote books on anatomy. Syncell. i. 101. "A06o6t5 — ov (pepovTai (3l(3ol duaToniLKalf ian-pos yap rju. He also built the palace at Memphis. It is proper to observe that the same character and similar actions are attributed to the second king of the third dynasty, p. 106. ^eaopdo^ OS 'Aa-zcXr^TTios irapd AiyuiTTLOL's e/cXrJO?^ Sid tiji/ laTpLKijv. ovto^ Kal ti]u Sid Jeo-Tdoy Xidwv oiKoSofxi^u eupaTo, dWd Kal ypacfyrj^ €7re/xeXrf6?;. Again the second king of the fourth dynasty, Suphis, emulates his predecessors by building a pyramid and writing a book: Pliny, N. H. vi: Aethiopia clara et potens, etiam usque ad Trojana bella Memnone regnante. '^■^ One of the inscriptions begins ckKvov avd^ja-avro^ eyu) UowXio^ B«X/??i/os ffywvd^ T«s deia^ Me/^t/oi/os" V; fpafieuuxp*