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* Homrr.Odyf. E.lin. 125.Diodor. I. 5p. 22 j &237 *•

b Diodor.

1. 1. p. 17.

Zethus, and the flight of Laius to Pelops upon the thirtieth yearof that king, or thereabout. Amphion might marry the fifterof Pelops the fame year, and Pelops come into Greece three orfour years before that flight, or about the a6th year of 80-lomon.

LXT. In the days of Erechtheus king of AthensJ 1 ), and Ge-lus king of Eleufis (*), Ceres came into Attica ; and educatedTripolemus the fon of Celeus, and taugkt him to, fow corn.She a lay with Jafion., or Jafius, the brother of Harmonia thewife of Cadmus*; and prefently after her death. Erechtheus wasflain, in a war between the Athenians and Eleulihians ; and, forthe benefadtion of bringing tillage into Greece,. the Eleufian Sa-cra were inftituted to her b with Egyptian ceremonies, by Celeusand Eumolpus ( 3 ); and a fepulchre or temple was erecfted t®her in Eleufine, and in this temple the families of Celeus andEumolpus became her priefts : and this temple, and that whichEurydice erecfted to her daughter Danae, by the name of JunoArgiva, are the firft inftances that I meet with in Greece of dei-fying the dead, with temples, and facred rites, and facrifices, andinitiations, and a fucceflion of priefls to perform them. Nowby this hiftory it is manifefl that Erechtheus, Celeus, Eumolpus,Ceres, Jafius, Cadmus, Harmonia, Afterius ( 4 ), and Dardanusthe brother of Jafius, and one of the founders of the kingdomof Troy, were ali contemporary to one another, and flourilhedin their youth, when Cadmus came firft into Europe. Erech-theus could not be much older, becaufe his daughter Procris con-verfe-d with Minos king of Crete ( 5 ) ; and his grandfon Thef-pis ( r> ) had fifty daughters, who lay With Hercules ; and his

daughter

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,(') Diod. Sic.lib. i. c. 29. p. 17. (*•) Apollodor.lib. 1. c. 5. | I & II.

( 3 ) Homer. Hyinn. i;i Cerer. apud Paufan. lib. 2. c. 14.

( 4 ) The hufband of Europa. Apollodor. lib. 3. c. 1. § II.

( 5 ) Apollodor. lib. 3. c. 14. § I.

(*) Read Thefpius, or Theflius. Diodorus calls him the fon of Ere&heus. He was king ofThefpia, Diod. Sic. lib. 4. c. 29. p. 163. Apollodor. lib. 2. c. 4. § X. Paufan. lib. 9. c. 2 6 & 28.

( 7 ) Apollodor. lib. 3. c. 14. § I an^ II. Orph. Argonaut. lin. 216—220. Apoll. Rhod. lib. 1.lin. 211—215.

( 8 ) Pandion is called by Eufebius the fon of Ereftheus: but lie was the grandfon of Ereftheus ■and the fon of Cecrops. Upon what anthority Sir Ifaac Newton affirms that he depofed Cecrops,

I know