Against Apion, 1.286

Flavius Josephus  translated by William Whiston

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286Nor indeed is that other notion of Manetho at all probable, wherein he relates the change of his name, and says, that “he was formerly called Osarsiph;” and this a name no way agreeable to the other, while his true name was Moüses, and signifies a person who is preserved out of the water, for the Egyptians call water Moü.

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