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of Labdacus, were llain ia battle about the tenth year of So1o- G reeks -raon, as above; and the firft four kings of Sicyon, /Egialeus,

Europs, Telchin, Apis, after the rate of about tvventy years to areign, take up about eighty years ; and thefe years counted up-wards from the tenth year of Solomon, place the beginning ofthe reign of AEgialeus upon the twelfth year of Samuel, orthereabout: and about that time began the reign of Phoroneusat Argos. Apollodorus a calls Adraftus king of Argos; but Ho-[ ^P° I, " d ° r *rher k telis us, that he reigned firib at Sicyon : he was in the firft* i H ° mer -war againft Thebes. Some place Janifcus and Phaeftus betvveen^^.'Polybus and Adraftus, but without any certainty.

LXXXIII. Lelex might come with his people into Laconia inthe days of Eli, and leave his territories to his fons Myles ('),

Eurotas ('), Clefon ( 3 ), and Polycaon ('), in the days of Samuel.

Myles fet up a quem ( 4 ), or hand-mill to grind corn, and is re-puted the firft among the Greeks who did fo : but he flourifhedbefore Triptolemus, and feems to have had his corn and artificersfrom Egypt. Eurotas the brother, or as forne fay the fon ofMyles, built Sparta, and called it after the name of his daughterSparta, the wife of Lacedaemon, and mother of Eurydice. Cle-fon was the father of Pylas, the father of Sciron, who marriedthe daughter of Pandion the fon of Erechtheus, and contendedwith Nifus the fon of Pandion and brother of Aigeus, for thekingdom ; and iEacus adjudged it to Nifus ( 5 ). Polycaon in-vaded Meflene, then peopled only by villages, called it Mefteneafter the name of his wife, and built cities therein ( 6 ).

LXXX1V. Cecrops (') came from Sais in Egypt to Cyprus, andthence into Attica : and he might do this in the days of Samuel,

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(') Paufan. lib. 3. c. 1. p. 204.

p) Eurotas was the fon of Myles, and the grandfon of Lelex, Paufan. ibid. Scholiaft. inOreft. Euripid.

( 3 ) Paufan. lib. 1. c. 39. p. 95, ( 4 ) -Lib. 3. c. 20. p. 260.

p) According to Paulanias, Lacedtemon was the builder of Sparta, p. 204.

p) Paufan. lib. 4. c. 1. p. 2S0. >

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C) Vid. Sir John Marlham, Chron. fe£L VIII. Tit. Cecrops. That he was an iEgyptian, itaffirmed by the Scholiaft on Ariftoph, Plut. lin. 773 : A Sai te, by John Tzetzes in Chii. 5.

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