With regard then to the rearing of the children they related so much as I have said: and I heard also other things at Memphis when I had speech with the priests of Hephaestus. Moreover I visited both Thebes and Heliopolis 236 for this very cause, namely because I wished to know whether the priests at these places would agree in their accounts with those at Memphis; for the men of Heliopolis are said to be the most learned in records of the Egyptians. Those of their narrations which I heard with regard to the gods I am not earnest to relate in full, but I shall name them only, 237 because I consider that all men are equally ignorant of these matters: 238 and whatever things of them I may record, I shall record only because I am compelled by the course of the story. 4.