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daughter Orithyia was the mother of Calais and Zetes ( r ), tWO Greeks-.

©f the Argonauts in their youth; and his fon Orneus a was the a Pa U ran.father of Peteos, the father ©f Meneftheus, who warred at Troy*’ c ’ 2;> *nor much younger, becaufe his fecond fon ( 8 ) Pandion, whowith the Metionidae depofed his elder brother Cecrops, was thefather of iEgeus,, the father of Thefeus ; and Metion, anotheref his fons ( 9 ), was the father of Eupalamus, the father of Dae-dalus ( I0 ), who was older than Thefeus; and his daughter Creiifamarried Xuthus, the fon of Hellen, and by him had two fons,

Achaeus and Ion (”); and Ion commanded the army of the Athe-nians againft the Eleufians, in the battle in which his grandfatherErechtheus was llain : and this was juft before the infiitution ofthe Eleufinia Sacra, and before the reign of Pandion the fatherof iEgeus. Erechtheus being an Egyptian, procured corn fromEgypt, and for that benefadtion was made king of Athens f 12 );and near the beginning of his reign Ceres came into Attica fromSicily, in queft of her daughter Proferpina We cannot err

much, if we make Hellen contemporary to the reign of Saul,and to that of David at Hebron ; and place the beginning of thereign of Erechtheus in the 2Zth year, the coming of Ceres intoAttica in the zoth vear, and the difperfion of corn by Triptole-mus about the 40th year of DavkFs reign ; and the death ofCeres and Erechtheneus, and infiitution of the Eleufinia Sacra,'between the tenth and fifteenth year of Solomon.

EX. 1 I. Teucer, Dardanus, Erichthonius, Tros, Ilus, Laomedon,and Priamus, reigned luccefiively at Troy ('); and their reigns,at about twenty years a-piece with one another, amount unto anhundred and forty years : which counted back from the takingof Troy, place the beginning of the reign of Teucer about thefifteenth year of the reign of king David ; and that of Darda-

I knownot. - He was himfelf depofed by the Metionida:, and fled to Megara, Apollodor. lib. 3. c.

14. § V. Paufan. lib; r. c. 3-. For fuUer Information, the lekrned readcr may confult MeurfiusJDc Rcgibiis Atbenien/ium, lib. 2. c. 14 and 13,

( 9 )‘ Apollodor. Iib.-z. c. 14. § I. ( xa )---§ VIII. Diod. Sic. lib. 4. c. 76.p. 192.

('*) Apollodor. lib. 1. c. 7,. § II. and lib. 3. c. 14, § 1 ,

( la ) Diod. Sic, lib. 1. c. 29. p> 17.

* AddHeftod Theogon. lin. 969.

nus,

(*). Diod* Sic. libl. 4, c. 73. p. ihz.

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