Ipitus, and Aleus, who were Brother's Children, to be in the fame Line of Defcent, at leaft 7 Generations. In Laconia we find Lacedæmon King of that Country was Son of Jupiter and of Taygete Daughter of Atlas (s), Amyclas the next King was his Son (t): Argalus fucceeded his Father Amyclas (u): and Cynortas Argalus (x); and Cynortas left his Crown to OEbalus (y); when OEbalus died, Hippocoon gat poffeffion of the Throne, and for a Time defeated Tyndareus the Son of OEbalus (a), but after fome Years Tyndareus ejected him (b) and recovered the Kingdom. Tyndareus had two Sons, Caftor and Pollux (bb), but they both died before him (c): he married his Daughter Helen to Menelaus the Son of Atreus (d), and at his Death Menelaus fucceeded him in his Kingdom (e); and thus from Lacedæmon the Son of Jupiter to Helen and Menelaus, for whom the Greeks warred at Troy,are 8 Reigns and7 Descents; or 8 Descents from Jupiter. Again, Dardanus K. of Troy was Son of Jupiter and Electra, Daughter of Atlas (f), Erichthonius of Dardanus (g), Tros of Erichthonius (b), Ilus of Tros (i), Laomedon of Ilus (k), Priamus of Laomedon (1): Priamus was an old Man when the Greeks war

(x) Id.

(b) id. ibid. (d) ApolBib. 1. 3. c.

(s) Hygin. Fab. 155. Apollod. Bibl. 1. 3. c. 10. Paufan. in Laconic. c. I. (t) Paufan. ibid. (u) Id. ibid. ibid. (y) Id. ibid. (a) Paufan. ibid. (bb) Apollod. Bib. 1. 3. c. 9. (c) Id. c. 10. lod. Bib. 1. 3. c. 9. (e) c. 10. (f) Apollod. 11. Diodor. Sic. Hift. 1. 5. p. 223. Hom. Il. 2. v. 215. (g) Diodor. 1. 4. p. 192. Hom. Il. v. v. 219. (b) Diodor.`ubi fup. Hom. Il. y. v. 230. (i) Diodor. Hom. ibid. (k) lid. ibid. (1) lid. ibid.

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red against him, his Son Hector was then in his full Strength, and about the Age of the Greek Commanders, and from Jupiter to Hector are eight Defcents. We might examine the Accounts we have of other Families, and in all, of whom we have fufficient Remains, we should find Jupiter about 8 or 9 Generations before the Trojan War: Succeffions in Families vary enough to caufe this Difference of a Defcent or two, but we have no Genealogies that will allow us to place him later than the Times of Mofes; for Mofes lived from A. M. 2433 to A. M. 2550 (m), take the middle of his Life A. M. 2493, from thence to the War at Troy are about 300 Years, fuppofing Troy to have been taken about A. M. 2796 (n) and if we count 8 or 9 Defcents in this Space of Time, we go between 30 and 40 Years to a Defcent, and the Generations we have examined being for the most part by the elder Sons, this may pretty well agree with the Length of fuch Generations in thefe Times.

As what I have offered does abundantly hint, that Jupiter lived about the Age of Mofes; fo the Particulars of his Life do further confirm it, and may perhaps enable us to fettle more exactly the Time when he flourished: For, 1. Jupiter vifited Lycaon King of Arcadia (0), and had a Son named Arcas born of Callistho Lycaon's Daughter (p): Now Lycaon was con

(m) See Vol. II. B. 9. Deut. xxxiv. 7. B. 8. (0) Hygin. Fab. 176. Apollodor. (p) Tid. ibid. Paufan. in Arcadic. c. 3, 4

(n) See Vol. II. Biblioth. 1. 3. c. 8.

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temporary, and of about the fame Years with the elder Cecrops (9): Cecrops reigned in Attica from A. M. 2423 to A. M. 2473 (r): Lycaon was advanced towards Old-age when Jupiter vifited him, for his Children were all grown up, and of Age to build Cities and govern Nations (s): Jupiter therefore vifited him about the End of the Life of Cecrops, and not earlier than the 40th Year of Mofes's Age: But we may fix this Matter, with ftill greater Certainty: Lycaon died by the Hand of Jupiter (t), at I his Death Nyctimus his eldeft Son had his Crown (u): Nyetimus was made King of Arcadia juft upon the Time of Deucalion's Flood (w), and the Ancients imagined that Flood to have happened A.M. 2476 (x), so that about this Year Jupiter was in Arcadia, namely 3 Years after the Death of Cecrops, and in the 43d Year of Mofes. Jupiter was undoubtedly of Years of Wisdom, Authority, and Experience of the World, when he tranfacted the Affairs of Lycaon's Kingdom, and to this agrees, 2. What we further find from the Marble, that Mars the Son of Jupiter was tried at Athens for the Death of Halirrothius the Son of Neptune, A.M. 2473 (y); fo that before Jupiter's Expedition to Arcadia, his Sons were grown up and engaged in the World. 3. Epaphus was

(2) Δοκῶ η ἔγωγε Κέκροπι ἡλικίαν τῷ βασιλεύσαντι ̓Αθηναίων Aundori va Tlu avтlw. Paufan. in Arcad. c. 2. (r) See Vol. II. B. 8. (s) Vid. Paufan. in Arcad. c. 3. (t) A pollod. ubi fup. (u) Paufan. ubi fup. Apollod. ibid. (w) NurTiμe. * βασιλείαν παραλαβόντος ὁ ἐπὶ Δευκαλίωνος κατακλυσμὸς éveTo. Apollod. ubi fup. (x) Marmor Arundell. Ep. 4. 6) Id. Ep. 3.

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Son of Jupiter, born of Io (x): Here indeed fome of the Genealogists make a Mistake; for they fuppofe To to be the Daughter of Inachus this would argue Jupiter to have lived 300 Years earlier than the Times we are treating of, for Inachus reigned at Argos about A. M. 2154 (a). But Apollodorus has obferved and corrected this Error: He remarks, that Io the Mother of Epaphus was not Daughter of Inachus, but of Jafus (b): Jafus the Father of Io, was Son of Triopas King of Argos (c), so that Io was Triopas's Grand-daughter. Triopas was the fixth King of Argos from Inachus (d); for Apis ought not to be inferted amongst the Argive Kings (e), and if we count the Number of Years from the first Year of Inachus to the laft Year of Triopas, we fhall find them to amount to 315 (f); compute then 315 Years from A.M. 2154 the first Year of Inachus, and we come down to A. M. 2469, and in that Year Triopas died: If Triopas lived to fee his Granddaughter matched to Jupiter, as certainly he well might, then To might marry to him about 7 or 8 Years before Jupiter's Expedition into Arcadia, or if he was not grown up until fome Years after her Grandfather's Death, yet Jupiter's Acquaintance with her proves very well his living in thefe Times. 4. Minos is faid to have been the Son of Jupiter, born of

(a) See Vol.

(z) Hygin. Fab. 155. Apollod. 1. 2. c. 1. II. B. VI. (b) Apollodor. Bib. 1. 2. c. 1. (c) Paufan in Corinthiac. c. 16. (d) Cattor in Euleb. Chron. Vol. II. B. 8. p. 267.

(e) See (f) Vid, Caftor. in Chron. Eufeb.

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Europa Daughter of Agenor (g): This I am fenfible is a falfe Account of Minos, and therefore tho' it might eafily be made to coincide with the Times of Jupiter, as Europa is generally faid to have been the Sifter of Cadmus ; yet, as it would not be a true Account of Minos's Ancestors, it would be trifling to offer any thing about it: The Minos fo much talked of amongst the Greeks was contemporary with Dadalus (b), and Dadalus was the Son of Eupalamus (i), who had a Daughter that was married to the fecond Cecrops (k), and his Son Dadalus with Minos flourished about the Times of Ægeus (1), who reigned at Athens from A.M. 2697 to A. M. 2745 (m), so that this Minos lived about 150 Years after Mofes's Death: The placing this Minos about thefe Times agrees perfectly well with the Accounts we have of his Defcendants down to the Trojan War; for he was in the third Generation before that Expedition; for the Sons of Minos were Deucalion and Molus, and their Sons Idomeneus and Meriones warred at Troy (n). Sir John Marsham very judiciously obferves from the Hints of the ancient Writers, that there were two Minos's; that the former was the Grandfather of the latter; that Length of Time and the Inaccuracy

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(g) Apollod. Bibl. 1. 3. c. 1. Hygin. Fab. 155. pollod. Bib. 1. 3. c. 14. Diodor. Sic. 1. 4. (i) Apoll. ibid. (4) Id. p. 233. () Id. 1. 3. c. 14. (m) Cecrops began his Reign in Attica A. M. 2423. See Vol. II. B. 8. Count the Years of the feveral Reigns of the Attic Kings in Chronic. Eufeb. down to Egeus, and Egeus's Reign will fall in the Years I have allotted (z) Diodor. Şic, 1. 5. p. 238. Homer. Il. . v. 450. II. C. v. 650.

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