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Ch apter,^irst.

* Herod. I.c. 58.

* Strabo,

1 . 10. p.462—474.

C H R O N 0 L 0 G Y.

region afterwards called Achaia ( ,0 ): and therefore Arcas andEumeles were contemporary to Triptolemus, and to his old fa-ther Celeus, and to Erechtheus king of Athens; and Calliftoto Rharus, and her father Lycaon to Cranaus (") : but Lycaondied before Cranaus, fo as to leave room for Ueucalion’s floodbetween their deaths (“)■.. The eleven ( I3 ) kings of Arcadia,between this flood and the return of the Heraclidae into Pelo-ponnefus, that is, between the reigns of Lycaon and Cypfelus,after the rate of about twenty years to a reign one with another,took up about 220 years; and thefe years counted back from thereturn of the Heraclides, place the flood of Deucalion upon thefourteenth year of David’s reign ( I4 ), or thereabout. *

LXIX. Herodotus a telis us, that the Phoenicians who camewith Cadmus brought many dodtrines into Greece : for amongftthofe Phoenicians were a fort of men called Curetes , who wereikilled in the arts and fciences of Phoenicia, above other men;and b fettled forne in Phrygia, where they were called Coryban-tes (’); forne in Crete, where they were called Ideei DaSlyliQ);forne in Rhodes, where they were called Telchines ( 3 ) ; forne inSamothrace, where they were called Cabiri ; forne in Euboea,where, before the invention of iron, they wrought in copper,in a city thence called Chalcis ; forne in Lemnos, where they af-fifted Vulcan ; and forne in Imbrus, and other places : and aconfiderable number of them fettled in Aitolia, which was thencecalled the country of the Curetes ; until yEtolus the fon of En-dymion, having flain Apis king of Sicyon, fled thither, and bythe afliflance of his father invaded it, and from his own namecalled it ./Etolia ( 4 ) : and by the afliftance of thefe artificers, Cad-

( ,0 ) .Reati, “ king of afmali difricl in Achaia, andfounder of the city afterwards called Patrat*Paufan. ibici.

(”) Paufanias differs little, if at ali, from cnir author in the age of Lycaon; making hirncontemporary with Ceoj-ops the predeceffor of Cranaus, lib. 8. c. 2. p. 600.

( ll ) For Deucalionis flood was in the reign of Nytlimus the fuccelfor of Lycaon. Apollodor.lib. 3. c. 8. § II.

(‘ 3 ) They fliould be redeoned but nine. See note 1.

( 14 ) But reckoning snly nine fucceffive reigns of Arcadian kings, between Lycaon and Cvpfe-lus ; thefe nine reigns, at 20 years each, will atnount to 180 years. And Deucalion’s flood willfall 1-80 years before the return of the Heraclida:: therefore 226 before the firft olympiad : thatis, about. the year of the Julian period 3712, which, according to Petavius, was the fourteenthof Solomon.

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