Part 2

1045. Many of the _Phœnicians_ and _Syrians_ fleeing from _Zidon_ and from _David_, come under the conduct of _Cadmus_, _Cilix_, _Phœnix_, _Membliarius_, _Nycteus_, _Thasus_, _Atymnus_, and other Captains, into _Asia minor_, _Crete_, _Greece_, and _Libya_; and introduce Letters, Music, Poetry, the _Octaeteris_, Metals and their Fabrication, and other Arts, Sciences and Customs of the _Phœnicians_. At this time _Cranaus_ the successor of _Cecrops_ Reigned in _Attica_, and in his Reign and the beginning of the Reign of _Nyctimus_, the _Greeks_ place the flood of _Deucalion_. This flood was succeeded by four Ages or Generations of men, in the first of which _Chiron_ the son of _Saturn_ and _Philyra_ was born, and the last of which according to _Hesiod_ ended with the _Trojan_ War; and so places the Destruction of _Troy_ four Generations or about 140 years later than that flood, and the coming of _Cadmus_, reckoning with the ancients three Generations to an hundred years. With these _Phœnicians_ came a sort of men skilled in the Religious Mysteries, Arts, and Sciences of _Phœnicia_, and settled in several places under the names of _Curetes_, _Corybantes_, _Telchines_, and _Idæi Dactyli_.

1043. Hellen, the son of _Deucalion_, and father of _Æolus_, _Xuthus_, and _Dorus_, flourishes.

1035. _Erectheus_ Reigns in _Attica_. _Æthlius_, the grandson of _Deucalion_ and father of _Endymion_, builds _Elis_. The _Idæi Dactyli_ find out Iron in mount _Ida_ in _Crete_, and work it into armour and iron tools, and thereby give a beginning to the trades of smiths and armourers in _Europe_; and by singing and dancing in their armour, and keeping time by striking upon one another's armour with their swords, they bring in Music and Poetry; and at the same time they nurse up the _Cretan Jupiter_ in a cave of the same mountain, dancing about him in their armour.

1034. _Ammon_ Reigns in _Egypt_. He conquered _Libya_, and reduced that people from a wandering savage life to a civil one, and taught them to lay up the fruits of the earth; and from him _Libya_ and the desert above it were anciently called _Ammonia_. He was the first that built long and tall ships with sails, and had a fleet of such ships on the _Red Sea_, and another on the _Mediterranean_ at _Irasa_ in _Libya_. 'Till then they used small and round vessels of burden, invented on the _Red Sea_, and kept within sight of the shore. For enabling them to cross the seas without seeing the shore, the _Egyptians_ began in his days to observe the Stars: and from this beginning Astronomy and Sailing had their rise. Hitherto the Lunisolar year had been in use: but this year being of an uncertain length, and so, unfit for Astronomy, in his days and in the days of his sons and grandsons, by observing the Heliacal Risings and Setting of the Stars, they found the length of the Solar year, and made it consist of five days more than the twelve calendar months of the old Lunisolar year. _Creusa_ the daughter of _Erechtheus_ marries _Xuthus_ the son of _Hellen_. _Erechtheus_ having first celebrated the _Panathenæa_ joins horses to a chariot. _Ægina_, the daughter of _Asopus_, and mother of _Æacus_, born.

1030. _Ceres_ a woman of _Sicily_, in seeking her daughter who was stolen, comes into _Attica_, and there teaches the _Greeks_ to sow corn; for which Benefaction she was Deified after death. She first taught the Art to _Triptolemus_ the young son of _Celeus_ King of _Eleusis_.

1028. _Oenotrus_ the youngest son of _Lycaon_, the _Janus_ of the _Latines_, led the first Colony of _Greeks_ into _Italy_, and there taught them to build houses. _Perseus_ born.

1020. _Arcas_, the son of _Callisto_ and grandson of _Lycaon_, and _Eumelus_ the first King of _Achaia_, receive bread-corn from _Triptolemus_.

1019. _Solomon_ Reigns, and marries the daughter of _Ammon_, and by means of this affinity is supplied with horses from _Egypt_; and his merchants also bring horses from thence for all the Kings of the _Hittites_ and _Syrians_: for horses came originally from _Libya_; and thence _Neptune_ was called _Equestris_. _Tantalus_ King of _Phrygia_ steals _Ganimede_ the son of _Tros_ King of _Troas_.

1017. _Solomon_ by the assistance of the _Tyrians_ and _Aradians_, who had mariners among them acquainted with the _Red Sea_, sets out a fleet upon that sea. Those assistants build new cities in the _Persian Gulph_, called _Tyre_ and _Aradus_.

1015. The Temple of _Solomon_ is founded. _Minos_ Reigns in _Crete_ expelling his father _Asterius_, who flees into _Italy_, and becomes the _Saturn_ of the _Latines_. _Ammon_ takes _Gezer_ from the _Canaanites_, and gives it to his daughter, _Solomon's_ wife.

1014. _Ammon_ places _Cepheus_ at _Joppa_.

1010. _Sesac_ in the Reign of his father _Ammon_ invades _Arabia Fœlix_, and sets up pillars at the mouth of the _Red Sea_. _Apis_, _Epaphus_ or _Epopeus_, the son of _Phroroneus_, and _Nycteus_ King of _Bœotia_, slain. _Lycus_ inherits the Kingdom of his brother _Nycteus_. _Ætolus_ the son of _Endymion_ flies into the Country of the _Curetes_ in _Achaia_, and calls it _Ætolia_; and of _Pronoe_ the daughter of _Phorbas_ begets _Pleuron_ and _Calydon_, who built cities in _Ætolia_ called by their own names. _Antiopa_ the daughter of _Nycteus_ is sent home to _Lycus_ by _Lamedon_ the successor of _Apis_, and in the way brings forth _Amphion_ and _Zethus_.

1008. _Sesac_, in the Reign of his father _Ammon_, invades _Afric_ and _Spain_, and sets up pillars in all his conquests, and particularly at the mouth of the _Mediterranean_, and returns home by the coast of _Gaul_ and _Italy_.

1007. _Ceres_ being dead _Eumolpus_ institutes her Mysteries in _Eleusine_. The Mysteries of _Rhea_ are instituted in _Phrygia_, in the city _Cybele_. About this time Temples begin to be built in _Greece_. _Hyagnis_ the _Phrygian_ invents the pipe. After the example of the common-council of the five Lords of the _Philistims_, the _Greeks_ set up the _Amphictyonic_ Council, first at _Thermopylæ_, by the influence of _Amphictyon_ the son of _Deucalion_; and a few years after at _Delphi_ by the influence of _Acrisius_. Among the cites, whose deputies met at _Thermopylæ_, I do not find _Athens_, and therefore doubt whether _Amphictyon_ was King of that city. If he was the son of _Deucalion_ and brother of _Hellen_, he and _Cranaus_ might Reign together in several parts of _Attica_. But I meet with a later _Amphictyon_ who entertained the great _Bacchus_. This Council worshipped _Ceres_, and therefore was instituted after her death.

1006. _Minos_ prepares a fleet, clears the _Greek_ seas of Pyrates, and sends Colonies to the Islands of the _Greeks_, some of which were not inhabited before. _Cecrops_ II. Reigns in _Attica_. _Caucon_ teaches the Mysteries of _Ceres_ in _Messene_.

1005. _Andromeda_ carried away from _Joppa_ by _Perseus_. _Pandion_ the brother of _Cecrops_ II. Reigns in _Attica_. _Car_, the son of _Phoroneus_, builds a Temple to _Ceres_.

1002. _Sesac_ Reigns in _Egypt_ and adorns _Thebes_, dedicating it to his father _Ammon_ by the name of _No-Ammon_ or _Ammon-No_, that is the people or city of _Ammon_: whence the _Greeks_ called it _Diospolis_, the city of _Jupiter_. _Sesac_ also erected Temples and Oracles to his father in _Thebes_, _Ammonia_, and _Ethiopia_, and thereby caused his father to be worshipped as a God in those countries, and I think also in _Arabia Fœlix_: and this was the original of the worship of _Jupiter Ammon_, and the first mention of Oracles that I meet with in Prophane History. War between _Pandion_ and _Labdacus_ the grandson of _Cadmus_.

994. _Ægeus_ Reigns in _Attica_.

993. _Pelops_ the son of _Tantalus_ comes into _Peloponnesus_, marries _Hippodamia_ the granddaughter of _Acrisius_, takes _Ætolia_ from _Ætolus_ the son of _Endymion_, and by his riches grows potent.

990. _Amphion_ and _Zethus_ slay _Lycus_, put _Laius_ the son of _Labdacus_ to flight, and Reign in _Thebes_, and wall the city about.

989. _Dædalus_ and his nephew _Talus_ invent the saw, the turning-lath, the wimble, the chip-ax, and other instruments of Carpenters and Joyners, and thereby give a beginning to those Arts in _Europe_. _Dædalus_ also invented the making of Statues with their feet asunder, as if they walked.

988. _Minos_ makes war upon the _Athenians_, for killing his son _Androgeus_. _Æacus_ flourishes.

987. _Dædalus_ kills his nephew _Talus_, and flies to _Minos_. A Priestess of _Jupiter Ammon_, being brought by _Phœnician_ merchants into _Greece_, sets up the Oracle of _Jupiter_ at _Dodona_. This gives a beginning to Oracles in _Greece_: and by their dictates, the Worship of the Dead is every where introduced.

983. _Sisyphus_, the son of _Æolus_ and grandson of _Hellen_, Reigns in _Corinth_, and some say that he built that city.

980. _Laius_ recovers the Kingdom of _Thebes_. _Athamas_, the brother of _Sisyphus_ and father of _Phrixus_ and _Helle_, marries _Ino_ the daughter of _Cadmus_.

979. _Rehoboam_ Reigns. _Thoas_ is sent from _Crete_ to _Lemnos_, Reigns there in the city _Hephœstia_, and works in copper and iron.

978. _Alcmena_ born of _Electryo_ the son of _Perseus_ and _Andromeda_, and of _Lysidice_ the daughter of _Pelops_.

974. _Sesac_ spoils the Temple, and invades _Syria_ and _Persia_, setting up pillars in many places. _Jeroboam_, becoming subject to _Sesac_, sets up the worship of the _Egyptian_ Gods in _Israel_.

971. _Sesac_ invades _India_, and returns with triumph the next year but one: whence _Trieterica Bacchi_. He sets up pillars on two mountains at the mouth of the river _Ganges_.

968. _Theseus_ Reigns, having overcome the _Minotaur_, and soon after unites the twelve cities of _Attica_ under one government. _Sesac_, having carried on his victories to _Mount Caucasus_, leaves his nephew _Prometheus_ there, and _Æetes_ in _Colchis_.

967. _Sesac_, passing over the _Hellespont_ conquers _Thrace_, kills _Lycurgus_ King thereof, and gives his Kingdom and one of his singing-women to _Oeagrus_ the father of _Orpheus_. _Sesac_ had in his army _Ethiopians_ commanded by _Pan_, and _Libyan_ women commanded by _Myrina_ or _Minerva_. It was the custom of the _Ethiopians_ to dance when they were entring into a battel, and from their skipping they were painted with goats feet in the form of Satyrs.

966. _Thoas_, being made King of _Cyprus_ by _Sesac_, goes thither with his wife _Calycopis_, and leaves his daughter _Hypsipyle_ in _Lemnos_.

965. _Sesac_ is baffled by the _Greeks_ and _Scythians_, loses many of his women with their Queen _Minerva_, composes the war, is received by _Amphiction_ at a feast, buries _Ariadne_, goes back through _Asia_ and _Syria_ into _Egypt_, with innumerable captives, among whom was _Tithonus_, the son of _Laomedon_ King of _Troy_; and leaves his _Libyan Amazons_, under _Marthesia_ and _Lampeto_, the successors of _Minerva_, at the river _Thermodon_. He left also in _Colchos_ Geographical Tables of all his conquests: And thence Geography had its rise. His singing-women were celebrated in _Thrace_ by the name of the Muses. And the daughters of _Pierus_ a _Thracian_, imitating them, were celebrated by the same name.

964. _Minos_, making war upon _Cocalus_ King of _Sicily_, is slain by him. He was eminent for his Dominion, his Laws and his Justice: upon his sepulchre visited by _Pythagoras_, was this inscription, ΤΟΥ ΔΙΟΣ the Sepulchre of _Jupiter_. _Danaus_ with his daughters flying from his brother _Egyptus_ (that is from _Sesac_) comes into _Greece_. _Sesac_ using the advice of his Secretary _Thoth_, distributes _Egypt_ into xxxvi _Nomes_, and in every _Nome_ erects a Temple, and appoints the several Gods, Festivals and Religions of the several _Nomes_. The Temples were the sepulchres of his great men, where they were to be buried and worshipped after death, each in his own Temple, with ceremonies and festivals appointed by him; while He and his Queen, by the names of _Osiris_ and _Isis_, were to be worshipped in all _Egypt_. These were the Temples seen and described by _Lucian_ eleven hundred years after, to be of one and the same age: and this was the original of the several _Nomes_ of _Egypt_, and of the several Gods and several Religions of those _Nomes_. _Sesac_ divided also the land of _Egypt_ by measure amongst his soldiers, and thence _Geometry_ had its rise. _Hercules_ and _Eurystheus_ born.

963. _Amphictyon_ brings the twelve Gods of _Egypt_ into _Greece_, and these are the _Dii magni majorum gentium_, to whom the Earth and Planets and Elements are dedicated.

962. _Phryxus_ and _Helle_ fly from their stepmother _Ino_ the daughter of _Cadmus_. _Helle_ is drowned in the _Hellespont_, so named from her, but _Phryxus_ arrived at _Colchos_.

960. The war between the _Lapithæ_ and the people of _Thessaly_ called _Centaurs_.

958. _Oedipus_ kills his father _Laius_. _Sthenelus_ the son of _Perseus_ Reigns in _Mycene_.

956. _Sesac_ is slain by his brother _Japetus_, who after death was deified in _Afric_ by the name of _Neptune_, and called _Typhon_ by the _Egyptians_. _Orus_ Reigns and routs the _Libyans_, who under the conduct of _Japetus_, and his Son _Antæus_ or _Atlas_, invaded _Egypt_. _Sesac_ from his making the river _Nile_ useful, by cutting channels from it to all the cities of _Egypt_, was called by its names, _Sihor_ or _Siris_, _Nilus_ and _Egyptus_. The _Greeks_ hearing the _Egyptians_ lament, _O Siris_ and _Bou Siris_, called him _Osiris_ and _Busiris_. The _Arabians_ from his great acts called him _Bacchus_, that is, the Great. The _Phrygians_ called him _Ma-fors_ or _Mavors_, the valiant, and by contraction _Mars_. Because he set up pillars in all his conquests, and his army in his father's Reign fought against the _Africans_ with clubs, he is painted with pillars and a club: and this is that _Hercules_ who, according to _Cicero_, was born upon the _Nile_, and according to _Eudoxus_, was slain by _Typhon_; and according to _Diodorus_, was an _Egyptian_, and went over a great part of the world, and set up the pillars in _Afric_. He seems to be also the _Belus_ who, according to _Diodorus_, led a Colony of _Egyptians_ to _Babylon_, and there instituted Priests called _Chaldeans_, who were free from taxes, and observed the stars, as in _Egypt_. Hitherto _Judah_ and _Israel_ laboured under great vexations, but henceforward _Asa_ King of _Judah_ had peace ten years.

947. The _Ethiopians_ invade _Egypt_, and drown _Orus_ in the _Nile_. Thereupon _Bubaste_ the sister of _Orus_ kills herself, by falling from the top of an house, and their mother _Isis_ or _Astræa_ goes mad: and thus ended the Reign of the Gods of _Egypt_.

946. _Zerah_ the _Ethiopian_ is overthrown by _Asa_. The people of the lower _Egypt_ make _Osarsiphus_ their King, and call in two hundred thousand _Jews_ and _Phœnicians_ against the _Ethiopians_. _Menes_ or _Amenophis_ the young son of _Zerah_ and _Cissia_ Reigns.

944. The _Ethiopians_, under _Amenophis_, retire from the lower _Egypt_ and fortify _Memphis_ against _Osarsiphus_. And by these wars and the _Argonautic_ expedition, the great Empire of _Egypt_ breaks in pieces. _Eurystheus_ the son of _Sthenelus_ Reigns in _Mycenæ_.

943. _Evander_ and his mother _Carmenta_ carry Letters into _Italy_.

942. _Orpheus_ Deifies the son of _Semele_ by the name of _Bacchus_, and appoints his Ceremonies.

940. The great men of _Greece_, hearing of the civil wars and distractions of _Egypt_, resolve to send an embassy to the nations, upon the _Euxine_ and _Mediterranean_ Seas, subject to that Empire, and for that end order the building of the ship _Argo_.

939. The ship _Argo_ is built after the pattern of the long ship in which _Danaus_ came into _Greece_: and this was the first long ship built by the _Greeks_. _Chiron_, who was born in the Golden Age, forms the Constellations for the use of the _Argonauts_; and places the Solstitial and Equinoctial Points in the fifteenth degrees or middles of the Constellations of _Cancer_, _Chelæ_, _Capricorn_, and _Aries_. _Meton_ in the year of _Nabonassar_ 316, observed the Summer Solstice in the eighth degree of _Cancer_, and therefore the Solstice had then gone back seven degrees. It goes back one degree in about seventytwo years, and seven degrees in about 504 years. Count these years back from the year of _Nabonassar_ 316, and they will place the _Argonautic_ expedition about 936 years before _Christ_. _Gingris_ the son of _Thoas_ slain, and Deified by the name of _Adonis_.

938. _Theseus_, being fifty years old, steals _Helena_ then seven years old. _Pirithous_ the son of _Ixion_, endeavouring to steal _Persephone_ the daughter of _Orcus_ King of the _Molossians_, is slain by the Dog of _Orcus_; and his companion _Theseus_ is taken and imprisoned. _Helena_ is set at liberty by her brothers.

937. The _Argonautic_ expedition. _Prometheus_ leaves _Mount Caucasus_, being set at liberty by _Hercules_. _Laomedon_ King of _Troy_ is slain by _Hercules_. _Priam_ succeeds him. _Talus_ a brazen man, of the Brazen Age, the son of _Minos_, is slain by the _Argonauts_. _Æsculapius_ and _Hercules_ were _Argonauts_, and _Hippocrates_ was the eighteenth from _Æsculapius_ by the father's side, and the nineteenth from _Hercules_ by the mother's side; and because these generations, being noted in history, were most probably by the chief of the family, and for the most part by the eldest sons; we may reckon 28 or at the most 30 years to a generation: and thus the seventeen intervals by the father's side and eighteen by the mother's, will at a middle reckoning amount unto about 507 years; which being counted backwards from the beginning of the _Peloponnesian_ war, at which time _Hippocrates_ began to flourish, will reach up to the time where we have placed the _Argonautic_ expedition.

936. _Theseus_ is set at liberty by _Hercules_.

934. The hunting of the _Calydonian_ boar slain by _Meleager_.

930. _Amenophis_, with an army out of _Ethiopia_ and _Thebais_, invades the lower _Egypt_, conquers _Osarsiphus_, and drives out the _Jews_ and _Canaanites_: and this is reckoned the second expulsion of the Shepherds. _Calycopis_ dies, and is Deified by _Thoas_ with Temples at _Paphos_ and _Amathus_ in _Cyprus_, and at _Byblus_ in _Syria_, and with Priests and sacred Rites, and becomes the _Venus_ of the ancients, and the _Dea Cypria_ and _Dea Syria_. And from these and other places where Temples were erected to her, she was also called _Paphia_, _Amathusia_, _Byblia_, _Cytherea_, _Salaminia_, _Cnidia_, _Erycina_, _Idalia_, &c. And her three waiting-women became the three Graces.

928. The war of the seven Captains against _Thebes_.

927. _Hercules_ and _Æsculapius_ are Deified. _Eurystheus_ drives the _Heraclides_ out of _Peloponnesus_. He is slain by _Hyllus_ the son of _Hercules_. _Atreus_ the son of _Pelops_ succeeds him in the Kingdom of _Mycenæ_. _Menestheus_, the great grandson of _Erechtheus_, Reigns at _Athens_.

925. _Theseus_ is slain, being cast down from a rock.

924. _Hyllus_ invading _Peloponnesus_ is slain by _Echemus_.

919. _Atreus_ dies. _Agamemnon_ Reigns. In the absence of _Menelaus_, who went to look after what his father _Atreus_ had left to him, _Paris_ steals _Helena_.

918. The second war against _Thebes_.

912. _Thoas_, King of _Cyprus_ and part of _Phœnicia_ dies; and for making armour for the Kings of _Egypt_; is Deified with a sumptuous Temple at _Memphis_ by the name of _Baal Canaan_, _Vulcan_. This Temple was said to be built by _Menes_, the first King of _Egypt_ who reigned next after the Gods, that is, by _Menoph_ or _Amenophis_ who reigned next after the death of _Osiris_, _Isis_, _Orus_, _Bubaste_ and _Thoth_. The city, _Memphis_ was also said to be built by _Menes_; he began to build it when he fortified it against _Osarsiphus_. And from him it was called _Menoph_, _Moph_, _Noph_, &c; and is to this day called _Menuf_ by the _Arabians_. And therefore _Menes_ who built the city and temple Was _Menoph_ or _Amenophis_. The Priests of _Egypt_ at length made this temple above a thousand years older then _Amenophis_, and some of them five or ten thousand years older: but it could not be above two or three hundred years older than the Reign of _Psammiticus_ who finished it, and died 614 years before _Christ_. When _Menoph_ or _Menes_ built the city, he built a bridge there over the _Nile_: a work too great to be older than the Monarchy of _Egypt_.

909. _Amenophis_, called _Memnon_ by the _Greeks_, built the _Memnonia_ at _Susa_, whilst _Egypt_ was under the government of _Proteus_ his Viceroy.

904. _Troy_ taken. _Amenophis_ was still at _Susa_; the _Greeks_ feigning that he came from thence to the _Trojan_ war.

903. _Demophoon_, the son of _Theseus_ by _Phœdra_ the daughter of _Minos_, Reigns at _Athens_.

901. _Amenophis_ builds small Pyramids in _Cochome_.

896. _Ulysses_ leaves _Calypso_ in the Island _Ogygie_ (perhaps _Cadis_ or _Cales_.) She was the daughter of _Atlas_, according to _Homer_. The ancients at length feigned that this Island, (which from _Atlas_ they called _Atlantis_) had been as big as all _Europe_, _Africa_ and _Asia_, but was sunk into the Sea.

895. _Teucer_ builds _Salamis_ in _Cyprus_. _Hadad_ or _Benhadad_ King of _Syria_ dies, and is Deified at _Damascus_ with a Temple and Ceremonies.

887. _Amenophis_ dies, and is succeeded by his son _Ramesses_ or _Rhampsinitus_, who builds the western Portico of the Temple of _Vulcan_. The _Egyptians_ dedicated to _Osiris_, _Isis_, _Orus_ senior, _Typhon_, and _Nephthe_ the sister and wife of _Typhon_, the five days added by the _Egyptians_ to the twelve Calendar months of the old Luni-solar year, and said that they were added when these five Princes were born. They were therefore added in the Reign of _Ammon_ the father of these five Princes: but this year was scarce brought into common use before the Reign of _Amenophis_: for in his Temple or Sepulchre at _Abydus_, they placed a Circle of 365 cubits in compass, covered on the upper side with a plate of gold, and divided into 365 equal parts, to represent all the days of the year; every part having the day of the year, and the Heliacal Risings and Settings of the Stars on that day, noted upon it. And this Circle remained there 'till _Cambyses_ spoiled the temples of _Egypt_: and from this monument I collect that it was _Amenophis_ who established this year, fixing the beginning thereof to one of the four Cardinal Points of the heavens. For had not the beginning thereof been now fixed, the Heliacal Risings and Settings of the Stars could not have been noted upon the days thereof. The Priests of _Egypt_ therefore in the Reign of _Amenophis_ continued to observe the Heliacal Risings and Settings of the Stars upon every day. And when by the Sun's Meridional Altitudes they had found the Solstices and Equinoxes according to the Sun's mean motion, his Equation being not yet known, they fixed the beginning of this year to the Vernal Equinox, and in memory thereof erected this monument. Now this year being carried into _Chaldæa_, the _Chaldæans_ began their year of _Nabonassar_ on the same _Thoth_ with the _Egyptians_, and made it of the same length. And the _Thoth_ of the first year of _Nabonassar_ fell upon the 26th day of _February_: which was 33 days and five hours before the Vernal Equinox, according to the Sun's mean motion. And the _Thoth_ of this year moves backwards 33 days and five hours in 137 years, and therefore fell upon the Vernal Equinox 137 years before the _Æra_ of _Nabonassar_ began; that is, 884 years before _Christ_. And if it began upon the day next after the Vernal Equinox, it might begin three or four years earlier; and there we may place the death of this King. The _Greeks_ feigned that he was the Son of _Tithonus_, and therefore he was born after the return of _Sesac_ into _Egypt_, with _Tithonus_ and other captives, and so might be about 70 or 75 years old at his death.

883. _Dido_ builds _Carthage_, and the _Phœnicians_ begin presently after to sail as far as to the _Straights Mouth_, and beyond. _Æneas_ was still alive, according to _Virgil_.