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•nus, in the days of Ceres; who lay with Jafius the brother ofDardanus: whereas chronologers reckon that the laft fix of thefekings reigned 296 years, which is after the rate of 49^ yearsa-piece with one another ; and that they began their reign in thedays of Mofes. Dardanus married the daughter of Teucer, theion of Scamander,’and fucceeded him ('): whence Teucer wasof about the fame age with David.

LX 1 II. Upon the return of Sefoftris into Egypt, his brotherDanaus not only attempted his life, as above, but alfo command-ed his daughters, who were fifty in number, and had marriedthe fons of Sefoftris, to ilay their hufbands('); and then fledwith his daughters from Egypt in a long fhip of fifty oars (').This flight was in the fourteenth year of Rehoboam ( 2 ). Da-naus came firft to Lindus, a town in Rhodes, and there built atemple, and eredled a ftatue to Minerva ( x ), and loft three of hisdaughters by a plague which raged there ( 3 ) ; and then failedthence with the reft of his daughters to Argos. He came toArgos therefore in the fifteenth or fixteenth year of Rehoboam :and at length contending there with Gelanor ( 4 ) the brother ofEuryflheus for the crown of Argos, was chofen by the people,and reigned at Argos, while Euryflheus reigned at Mycenae ; andEuryflheus was born a the fame year with Hercules. Gelanor andEuryflheus were the fons of Sthenelus, by Nicippe the daughterof Pelops ( 5 ); and Sthenelus was the fon of Perfeus, and reign-ed at Argos; and Danaus, who fucceeded him at Argos, was

fucceeded

§ LXIII.

(’) Apollodor. lib. 2. c. i. § IV and V. Diod. Sic. lib. 5. c. 58. p. 227.

C) § XIX. ( 3 ) Diod. Sic. lib. 5. c. 58. p. 227.

( 4 ) Apollodor. lib. 2. c. 1. § IV and V. Paufan. lib. 2. c. 19. p. 152. Eufeb. in Chron. lib. i.p. 13. and lib. 2. p. 79. According to Caftor (Eufeb Exc. Or. p. 29) Sthenelus was the princewho was defpofed by Danaus. That Gelanor was the brother of Eurystheus, and that the depo-Btion of Gelanor happened during the reign of Eurystheus at Mycenae, I take to be an error.See the next note.

,( s ) Eurystheus, kingof Mycenae, was indeed the fon of Sthenelus, the fon of Perfeus by Ni-cippe the daughter of Pelops. Apollodor. lib. 2. c. 4. § V, Gelanor too was the fon of a Sthe-nelus, Paufan. lib. 2. c. 16 and 19. p. 145 and 152. But this Sthenelus, the fatherof Gelanor, wasquite a different perfon from the father of Euryflheus, being the fon of Crotopus, the fon ofAgenor, the great-grandfon of Argos. Paufan. p. 145. Eufeb. Exc. Gr. p. 29. and Chron.lib. 2. If Sir Ifaac Newton had any authority, which might outweigh that of Paufanias in thismatter, and prove Gelanor of Argos and Euryflheus of Mycenae to have been brothers, it is**nuch to be regretted that he did not produce it. For this flngular pofition, if it be a miftake,5 a»