the Sebennyte, an Egyptian priest and historian, who flourished under the first Ptolemy, and probably the second also. He wrote a history of Egypt of which an epitome and some fragments remain, and, apparently, at least one other book. The epitome is given by Syncellus from the chronological works of Julius Africanus and Eusebius, of the latter of which there is extant an Armenian version. It is a list of thirty-one dynasties, with the number of kings in each, and generally their names, and with some historical events not always from the original work. The two principal fragments are preserved by Josephus (c. Apion.). The epitome does not contain any distinct statement of the complete duration of the dynasties. Such a statement is given by Syncellus, but there is strong reason to think it spurious. The dynasties are generally held to have been partly contemporaneous; hence different arrangements (for which see art. EGYPT). Manetho's accuracy is established by the agreement of the monuments; but much discredit was formerly cast on him by the fraud of an early impostor, now called "Pseudo-Manetho," who wrote the chronological Book of Sothis, apparently the groundwork of several false chronologies. Other forgeries seem to have been ascribed to the true Manetho. The extant Apotelesmatics may, however, be by a later person of the same name. The best editions of Manetho's remains are in Cory's Ancient Fragments (second edition),—nearly complete, but faulty in criticism; in Bunten's Egypt's Place,—a better text, but defaced by some conjectural readings; and in the Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum (Didot), where the arrangement is bad.