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irnftituted the Ilthmia at Corinth to his nephew Melicertus Q.Greeks.This vvas prefently after Sefoftris liad left Hietes in Colchis, Ithink in the fifteenth or fixteenth year of Relioboara : io thatAthamas, the fon of AEolus and grandibn of Hellen, and Inothe daughter of Cadmus, flourifhed till about the fixteenth yearof Rehoboam. Sifyphus and his fuccelfors Ornytion, Thoas,Demophon, Propodas, Doridas, and Hyanthidas, reigned fuccef-flvely at Corinth, till the retura, of the Heraclidae into Pelopon-nefus( 3 ): then reigned the Heraclidae, Aletes, Ixion, Agelas,Prumnis, Bacchis, Agelas II. Eudemus, Ariftodemus ( 4 ), and Te-leftes, fucceffively about 170 years ( s ), and then Corinth wasgoverned by Prytanes , or annual archons, about 42 years, and af-ter them by Cypfelus and Periander about 48 years more ( 6 ).

LXVI. Celeus king of Eleufis, who was contemporary toErechtheus,, a was the fon of Rharus ('), the fon of Cranaus, a Hefych. inthe fucceffor of Cecrops ; and in the reign of Cranaus, Deuca- Kfayxoi 'lion fled with li-is fons Hellen and Amphidlyon from the floodwhich then overflowed Theifaly, and was called Deucalion’sflood : they fled into Attica ; and there Deucalion, died foon af-ter; and Paufanias telis us, that his fepulchre was to be feennear Athens ( 2 ). His eldeft fon Hellen fucceeded him in Thef-faly ; and his other fon Amphictyon married the daughter ofCranaus ( 3 ), and reigning at Thermopylae, erefted there the Ara-

temporary with Aethlius the father of Endymion. But the truth rather feems to bc, tl>at Tan-talus and Danae were contemporary with Endymion himfelf,

§ LXV.

(') Apollodor. Iib. c. 9. §I& II. Paufan. lib. 1. c. 44, p. ioS.

( ) Paufan. lib. 2 c. 1. p. 111. ( 3 ) . .— - C; 4».

{*) Betwetn.Ariftodemus and Teleftes were two ufurpers, Agemon and Alexander. Eufeb.in Chron.

( 5 ) Diodorus Siculus, as quoted by Eufebius (in Chron. lib. 1) reckons 447 years from there! ui n of the Heraclida; to the beginningof the reign of Cypfelus; 90 of which he affigns to theannual archons. Eufeb. Exc. Gr. p. 33. Concerning the integrity of thefe numbers, confult-Petavius Doft. Temp. lib. 9. c. 33, and the notes of Weflelingius upon this fragment, in his edi-tiori of Diodorus Siculus.

( e ) By Cyplelus 30 years accordingto Herodotus (lib, $. c. 92. §. 6.) By Periander 40 years*.according to Eufebius (in Chron.) who gives but 28years to the reign of Cypfelus.

§. LXVI.

(’) Suklas under the word Pap*?. Others made Rharus the father of Triptolemus. Paufan.lib. . c. 14. p. 34.

(‘) Paufan. lib. 1. c. 1S. p. 43. (’) - . c. r. p. 7.

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