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* Themift.0'at. ig.b F!a ’0 inAlcib. I.p. 4 fb’.

C II R O N O L O G Y.phiiftyOnic council; and Acrifius foon after eredfted the like comi-ci! at Delphi ( 4 ). This I conceive was done when Amphi<5tyonand Acrifius were aged, and fit to be counfellors; fuppofe in thelatter half of the reign of David, and beginning of the reignof Solomon ; and foon after, fuppofe about the middle of tliereign of Solomon, did Phemonoe ( 5 ) become the firft prieftefsof Apollo at Delphi, and gave oracles in hexameter verfe : andthen was Acrifius flain accidentally by his grandfon Perfeus ( 6 ).The council of Thermopylae included twelve nations of theGreeks, without Attica, and therefore Amphidtyon did not thenreign at Athens: he might endeavour to fucceed Cranaus, hiswife’s father ( 7 ), and be prevented by Erechtheus.

LXV1I. Between the reigns of Cranaus and Erechtheus, chro-nologers place alfo Erichthonius, and his fon Pandion ; but Itake this Erichthonius and this his fon Pandion, to be the famewith Erechtheus and his fon and fuccefior Pandion, the namesbeing only repeated with a little variation in the lift of the kingsof Attica. For Erichthonius, he that was the fon of the Earth,nurfed up by Minerva, is by Homer (*) called Erechtheus; andThemiftius a telis us, that it was Erechtheus that firft joined achariot to horfes ; and Plato, b alluding to the ftory of Erichtho-nius in a bafket (*), faith, “ Thepeople of magnanimous Erech-" theus is beautiful, but it behoves us to behold him taken" out ( 3 ):” Erechtheus therefore immediately fucceeded Cranaus,while Amphictyon reigned at Thermopylae. In the reign of

Cranaus

( 4 ) See Sir J. Marfliam, § IX. Tit. Concilia AmphiUyonica .

( s ) Paufan. lib. io. c. p. 809. Clemens Alex. Strom. lib. r. c. 21. p. 139.

( 6 ) Apollodor. lib. 2. c. 4. § IV.

( 7 ) 1 hat he depofed Cranaus is cflcrted by Faufanias and Apollodorus, and \ras the opinionof Meurfius.

§ I.XVII.

(') II. is, htt 347. - (’) A poli. lib. 3. c. 13. § VI.

( 3 ) lv:r- gjwttg' y u,: u ry uiyoArio^^ a. a}, x7tohila ygA aulo» StajaoQyi. The pPOplt

of the magnanimous Kreilbeus carry a fair cutfuk ; but it is /teccjjary to examine them jlript. Aulo» re-lates to br.uoAf not to EIfere is no fort of allufion to the ftory of Erifthonius in thebafket.

( 4 ) Varro placed it in the reign of Cranaus. (Atiguftin. de Civ. Dei, lib. 18. c. 10.) E,ufe-bius in that of Cecrops.

§ I,XVIII.

( ) Arcas had three fons - Azan, Apht-idas, Flatus: among whom h? fliared his kiagdom:

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