Eratosthenes, expresses the connection thus:—­“Neptune took to wife Libya (or Africa), and had issue Belus and Agenor.  Belus married Anchinoe, daughter of Nile, who gave birth to AEgyptus, Danaus, Cepheus, and Phineus.  Agenor married Telephassa, and had issue Europa, Cadmus, Phoenix, and Cilix.”  Eupolemus, who professes to record the Babylonian tradition on the subject, tells us that the first Belus, whom he identifies with Saturn, had two sons, Belus and Canaan.  Canaan begat the progenitor of the Phoenicians (Phoenix?), who had two sons, Chum and Mestraim, the ancestors respectively of the Ethiopians and the Egyptians.  Charax of Pergamus spoke of AEgyptus as the son of Belus.  John of Antioch agrees with Apollodorus, but makes certain additions.  According to him, Neptune and Lybia had three children, Agenor, Belus, and Enyalius or Mars.  Belus married Sida, and had issue AEgyptus and Danaus; while Agenor married Tyro, and became the father of five children—­Cadmus, Phoenix, Syrus, Cilix, and Europa.

Many further proofs might be adduced, were they needed, of the Greek belief in an Asiatic Ethiopia, situated somewhere between Arabia and India, on the shores of the Erythraean Sea.  Herodotus twice speaks of the Ethiopians of Asia, whom he very carefully distinguishes from those of Africa, and who can only be sought in this position.  Ephorus, as we have already seen, extended the Ethiopians along the whole of the coast washed by the Southern Ocean.  Eusebius has preserved a tradition that, in the reign of Amenophis iii., a body of Ethiopians migrated from the country about the Indus, and settled in the valley of the Nile.  Hesiod and Apollodorus, by making Memnon, the Ethiopian king, son of the Dawn (Greek) imply their belief in an Ethiopia situated to the east rather than to the south of Greece.  These are a few out of the many similar notices which it would be easy to produce from classical writers, establishing, if not the fact itself, yet at any rate a full belief in the fact on the part of the best informed among the ancient Greeks.

The traditions of the Armenians are in accordance with those of the Greeks.  The Armenian Geography applies the name of Cush, or Ethiopia, to the four great regions, Media, Persia, Susiana or Elymais, and Aria, or to the whole territory between the Indus and the Tigris.  Moses of Chorene, the great Armenian historian, identifies Belus, King of Babylon, with Nimrod; while at the same time he adopts for him a genealogy only slightly different from that in our present copies of Genesis, making Nimrod the grandson of Cush, and the son of Mizraim.  He thus connects, in the closest way, Babylonia, Egypt, and Ethiopia Proper, uniting moreover, by his identification of Nimrod with Belus, the Babylonians of later times who worshipped Belus as their hero-founder, with the primitive population introduced into the country by Nimrod.