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-ently called Abantis, and the people thereof Abantes: for ApgI-Greeks.ionius Rhodius a telis us, that the Argonaut Canthus was the» Apoiion.fon of Canethus, and that Canetlius was of the pofterity ofAbas ; and the commentator upon Apollonius telis us further,that from this Abas the inhabitants of Eubcea were ancientlycalled Abantes. This Abas therefore flourilhed three or four ge-nerations before the Argonautic expedition; and fo might be thefather of Acrifius. The anceftors of Acrifius were accountedEgyptians by the Greeks; and they might come from Egypt un-der Abas into Euboea, and from thence into Peloponnefus. Ido not reckon Phorbas and his fon Triopas among the kings ofArgos; becaufe-they fled from that kingdom to the ifland Rhodes( 17 ): nor do I reckon Crotopus among them.; becaufe he wentfrom Argos, and built a new city for himfelf in Megaris, asConon relates ( 2S ).

LXIV. We faid that Pelops came into Greece about the 26th' Paufan;year of Solomon ('). He c came thither in the days of Acrifius, Apoiiodor.and in thofe of Endymion ( 2 ), and of his fons, and took AStolia ■ I ’ c ' 7 'from AEtolus. Endymion was the fon of Aethlius, the fon ofProtogenia, the fifter of Hellen, the daughter of Deucalion ( 3 ):

Phrixus and Helle, the children of Athamas ( 4 ), the brother ofSifyphus, and fon of ./Eoius, the fon of Hellen ( 5 ), fled fromtheir ftepmother Ino, the daughter of Cadmus, to iEetes in Col-chis, prefently after the return of Sefoftris into Egypt: and Ja-fon the Argonaut was the fon of /Efon, the fon of Cretheus,the fon of iEolus, the fon of Hellen ( 6 ) : and Calyce was thewife of Aethlius, and mother of Endymion ( 7 ), and daughterof iEolus ( 8 ), and fifter of Cretheus, Sifyphus and Athamas :

in Acrifius, having ftood $44years uiik ',1 Telops, who reigned 58. This might induce our au-ihor to place the arrival of Pelops in the time of Acrifius. But in the correfponding paflage inthe Greek fragments, Sthenelus and Euryftheus intervene, as they certainly ought to do, be-tween Acrifius and Pelops. The Argive kingdom was faid to ceafe in Acrifius, becaufe his fonand fucceffor Perfeus fixed his refidence at Mycente ; which from that time became the royal feat.

However, linee we find the fons of Perfeus marrying with the daughters of Pelops, it is evidentthat Perfeus and Pelops muli have been contemporaries ; and there can be no great error, if any,in placing the coming of Pelops into Greece in the days of Acrifius.

( 3 ) Apoiiodor. lib. 1. c. 7. § II and V. Paula n- lib. 5. c. 1.

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O ---Ibid. & c. 7. § II.

(") Scholiaft. in Pindar. Pyth. 4. 1 . njo. Apoiiodor. lib. 1. c. 9. § XVI. & c. 7. § II»

(’) Apoiiodor. lib. 1. c. 7. § V. ( 8 )-- § II.

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