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fucceeded there by his fon-in-law Lynceus ( 6 ), and he by his fon Grfeks.Abas ( 7 ) ; that Abas who is commonly, but erroneoufly, reputedthe father of Acriiius and Praetus ( s ). In the time of the Ar-gonautic expedition Cador and Pollux were beardlefs young raen,and their lifters Helena and Clytemneftra were children, andtheir wives Phoebe and Iiaira ( 9 J were alfo very young. AII thefe('°), with the Argonauts Lynceus and Idas, were the grand-chil-dren of Gorgophone, the daughter of Perfeus, the fon of Da-nae, the daughter of Acribus and Eurydice (”) ; and Perieresand Oebalus, the hufbands of Gorgophone, were the fons ofGynortes, the fon of Amyclas, the brother of Eurydice (").

Melior or Mador, the brother of Sthenelus, married Lyfidice,another of the daughters of Pelops ( ,3 ): and Pelops marriedHippodamia, the daughter of Evarete, the daughter of Acrib-us ( I4 ). Alcmena, the mother of Hercules, was the daughterof Ele6tryo ( I5 ) ; and Sthenelus, Medor and Elecdryo, were bro-thers of Gorgophone, and fons of Perfeus and Andromeda ( l6 ) ;and the Argonaut yEfculapius was the grandfon of Leucippusand Phlegia ( I7 ) ; and Leucippus was the fon of Perieres, thegrandfon of Amyclas the brother of Eurydice ; and Amyclasand Eurydice were the children of Lacedaemon and Sparta ( lS ) :and Capaneus, one of the feven captains againd Thebes, wasthe hulband of Euadne the daughter of Iphis ( I<9 ), the fon ofAlecdor, the fon of Anaxagoras,. the fon of Megapenthes, thefon of Praetus the brother of Acribus ('°). Now from thefe

as I think it muft be, makes great confufion in the chronology of the two antient kingdoms ofArgos and Mycenx.

( 6 ) Apollodor. lib. 2. c. 2. Paufan. lib. 2. c. 16. p, 145. ( 7 ) Eufeb. in Chron.

( s ) An error however, if it be an error, countenanced by the great authorities of Paufaaiasand Apollodorus. SeePaufan. p. 145. Apollodor. p. 77.

( 9 ) Apollodor. lib. 3. c. 10. § III. ( 10 ) ——— c. 10. § III, VI, VII.

( lI ) Apollodor. p. 78 and 82.

, ( 12 ') f he defcent of Perieres is confirmed by Apollodorus, p. 179 and 39. Paufanias fays,that Oebalus was a fon of Cynortus, and the father of Tyndareus by Gorgophone (p. 204) andthat Gorgophone bore children both to Perieres and Oebalus (p. 283.)

( u ) Apollodor. p. 89. ( M ) Hygin. Fab. 84.

(‘ ) Apollodor. p. 90. ('* ; Apollodor. p. 89.

(’ 7 ) Read, of I.cucippus or Phlegyas. For jF.fculapius was the fon of Coronis the daughterof Phlegyas, according to .forne; according to others of Arfinoe the daughter of Leucippus.

Paufan. p. 170, 171. Apollodor. p. 179.

( s ) Apollodor. p. 196, 197. ( T<> ) -p. 181.

( 2 °) Paufan. p 146 and 150. Butlbetween Anaxagoras and Megapenthe:s infert Argeus.

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