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tiponhim, and in a battle wherein Nytfteus overcame, both wereGREEKs»wounded, and died foon after. Nydteus left the tuition of Lab-dacus, and adminiftration. of the kingdom, to his brother Ly-cus ; and Epopeus, or, as Hyginus a calls him, Epaphus the - Hygin.Sicyonian, left his kingdom to Lamedon, who prefently ended Fab ' 7 & 8 'the war, by fending horae Antiope: and the, in returning horne,brought forth Amphion and Zethus. Labdacus being grown up,received the kingdom from Lycus; and foon after dying, left itagain to his adminiftration, for his young fon Laius ( r ). WhenAmphion and Zethus were about feventy years old, at the infti-gation of their mother Antiope, they killed Lycus ('), and madeLaius flee to Pelops (*), and feized the city Thebes, and com-paffed it with a wall(‘); and Amphion married Niobe the Ulterof Pelops ( 2 ), and by her had feveral children; amongft whorawas Chloris ( 2 ), the mother of Periclymenus the Argonaut ( 3 ).
Pelops was the father of Plifthenes, Atreus, and Thyeftes ( 4 );and Agamemnon and Menelaus, the adopted fons of Atreus ( 5 ),-warred at Troy. ZEgifthus, the fon of Thyeftes ( 6 ), flew Aga-memnon the year after the taking of Troy ; and Atreus died juftbefore Paris ftole Helena ; wnich, according b to Homer, was b Homer.twenty years before the taking of Troy. Deucalion the fon of j!n. d 7 6'\Minos, c was an Argonaut ; and Talus, another fon of Minos ( 7 )j Fablf^’was flain by the Argonauts; and Idomeneus and Meriones, theg.randfons of Minos, were at the Trojan war. Ali thefe thingseonfirm the ages of Cadmus and Europa, and their pofteritv,above affigned, and place the death of Epopeus or Epaphus kingof Sicyon, and birth of Amphion and Zethus, upon the tenthyear of Solomon ; and the taking of Thebes by Amphion , and
laus, and' Anaxibia,- to his father. Apollodorus (lib. 3. c. 2. § II.) makes Agamemnon and Me-nelaus the fons of Pleifthenes by zEerope. And the fcholiail on Sophocles Ajax, lin. 1314,agrees with Apollodorus in making Pleifthenes the hufband of Agamemnon’s mother. Ii* thelearned reader is inclined to enter more deeply iato this dark cpieftion, he may confult Meziriac-on the 8th of Ovid’s Epiftles.
( fl ) Qvir‘«.Sns Aiyio-005. Homer. Od. A. 518.
( 7 ) Talus was abrazen man, according to Apollonius (lib. 4. lin. 1638) one that remained ofthe brazen age: according to Apollodorus (hb. 1. c. 9. § XXVI.) a prefent from Vulcan to Mi-nos. But Lucian calls him the fon of Minos (Philopfeud. § XIX.) And Plato fays, that Talusbore the lame offlce under Minos in the relt of Crete, that Rhadamanthus bore in the C ipitol.
He was Minos’s judge of Affize, and went a Circuit through the towns of Crete three times inthe year, carrying about with him the laws engraven on tables of brafs. Hence the fabis thathe was a brazen man. Plato in Min. p. 568.
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