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CHRONOLOGY.woman fitting in a chariot drawn by lions, with a dnim in herhand, and a Corona turrita on her head, like Aftarte and Ilis.And the Cretans a anciently fhewed the houfe where this Rhealived : and b Apollonius Rhodius telis, us, that Saturn, while he. reigned over the litans in Olympus, a mountain in Crete, andJupiter was educated by the Curetes in the Cretan cave, deceivedRhea, and of Philyra begot Chiron. And therefore the CretanSaturn and Rhea, were but one generation older than Chiron,and by confequence not older than Alterius and Europa, the pa-rents.of Minos. For Chiron lived till after the Argonautic ex-pedjtion, and had two grand.fons.in that expedition ( 2 ) ; and Eu-ropa came into Crete above an hundred years before that expedi-tipn. Lucian c telis us, that the Cretans did not only relate, thatJupiter was born and buried among them, but alfo fhewed hisfepulchre : and Porphyry d telis us, that Pythagoras went downinto the Idaean cave to fee his fepulchre : and Cicero, e in num-bering three Jupiters, faith, that the third was the Cretan Ju-piter, Saturn’s fon, whofe fepulchre was fhewed in Crete : andthe fcholiaft upon Callimachus f lets us know, that this was thefepulchre of Minos: his words are, " Ev K^rjrri e7r i tw tb" M sTtsyey^onflof MINQOC TOT AIOC TA<E>OC. 7 « xgova h“ T8 0 iKriX&$bri, wce vsegiTi&Qfyvzi, AIOC TA4>0C. sx tsts
" vvex&v Xeyacri K^yitsc tov txQov ra A/o?. In Crete upon the fe-" pulchre of Minos was written, Minois Jovis fepulchrum: but“ in time Minois wore out, fo that there remained only Jovis Je-" pulchrum^ and thence the Cretans called it the fepulchre of Ju-ppiter.” By Saturn, Cicero, who was a Latine, underftood theSaturn fo called by the Latines: for when. Saturn was expelledhis.kingdom, he Red from Crete by fea to Italy ( 3 ) ; and this thepoets exprefled by faying, that Jupiter caft him down to Tarta-rus, that is, into the fea: and becaufe he lay hid in Italy, theLatines; ( 4 ) jcalled him Saturn ; and Italy, Saturnia and Latium;and themfelves Latines. So g Cyprian ; “ Antrum Jovis in Cre-
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and the towerd head. But I cannot find that he fays Europa was Rhea. For this temple at Hie-rapolis, which forne fuppofed to be Rhea’s, was quite different from the Phrygian temple, whichioml- uppoifed to be Europa’s. See Lucian de Dea Syria, § IV, XI, XV.
O Etis and Telamon. ( Apollodor. lib. i. c. 9. § XVI. Apoll.Rhod, lib. 1. 90—94.) They
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