8,) are said to belong to the line of Ooz. His father must furnish
the name Hermes to Greece, and in Egypt is, I think, Armais, the
head of the Hermotybians, and, perhaps, the founder of Hermonthis
or Erment. As Armais, he appears in the eighteenth dynasty, which



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need not be matter of astonisliiaeiit, inasmuch as Chebros, wlia is
Hepher, almost immediately precedes him. He is not, as is there
alleged, Danaus, who may, with more probability, be Othniel, grand-
son of Hepher, the Atin-re or Toonh of the montiments. His
connection with the family of Hepher in the eighteenth dynasty is
justified by the position of his son Acharchel in the list of the
Shepherds. In Manetho's fifteenth dynasty the latter is mentioned
after Pachnan, who is Kenaz, and Staan, who is Othniel, being the
immediate successor of the last . of them and the predecessor of
Aphobis. The Acherres, who goes before Armais in the eighteenth
dynasty, is also, perhaps, Acharchel his son. I do not know who
the father of this Armais was, nor in what manner he came to
connect himself with the family of Coz. It would seem as if either
Harum or Aharhel had married a daughter of the father of Anub.
