Miscellanies 1.21.106

Cadmus, the father of Semele, came to Thebes in the time of Lynceus and became the inventor of Greek letters. Triopas was contemporary with Isis, in the seventh generation from Inachus (they say that Isis is also Io, because she went wandering through the whole earth); Ister, in his work on the colonization of the Egyptians, says she was the daughter of Prometheus. And Prometheus, in the time of Triopas, was in the seventh generation after Moses, so that Moses appears to have flourished even before the origin of man according to the Greeks. Leon, who wrote about the gods of Egypt, says that Isis is called Demeter by the Greeks; she lived in the time of Lynceus, eleven generations after Moses. Apis, king of Argos, founded Memphis, as Aristippus says in the first book of his Arcadica. Aristeas of Argos says that he was surnamed Sarapis and that he is the one the Egyptians worship; Nymphodorus of Amphipolis, in the third book of his Customs of Asia, says that the bull Apis, when it died and was embalmed, was placed in a coffin in the temple of the honored god; hence it was called Soroapis, and later, by a certain usage of the natives, Sarapis.