Strabo [129] tells us that Phidon was the tenth from Temenus; not the tenth King, for between Cisus and Phidon they Reigned not, but the tenth from father to son, including Temenus.  If 27 years be reckoned to a Generation by the eldest sons, the nine intervals will amount unto 243 years, which counted back from the 48th Olympiad, in which Phidon flourished, will place the Return of the Heraclides about fifty years before the beginning of the Olympiads, as above.  But Chronologers reckon about 515 years from the Return of the Heraclides to the 48th Olympiad, and account Phidon the seventh from Temenus; which is after the rate of 85 years to a Generation, and therefore not to be admitted.

Cyrus took Babylon, according to Ptolomy’s Canon, nine years before his death, An.  Nabonass. 209, An. 2, Olymp. 60:  and he took Sardes a little before, namely An. 1, Olymp. 59, as Scaliger collects from Sosicrates:  Croesus was then King of Sardes, and Reigned fourteen years, and therefore began to Reign An. 3, Olymp. 55.  After Solon had made laws for the Athenians, he obliged them upon oath to observe those laws ’till he returned from his travels; and then travelled ten years, going to Egypt and Cyprus, and visiting Thales of Miletus:  and upon His Return to Athens, Pisistratus began to affect the Tyranny of that city, which made Solon travel a second time; and now he was invited by Croesus to Sardes; and Croesus, before Solon visited him, had subdued all Asia Minor, as far as to the River Halys; and therefore he received that visit towards the latter part of his Reign; and we may place it upon the ninth year thereof, An. 3, Olymp. 57:  and the legislature of Solon twelve years earlier, An. 3, Olymp. 54:  and that of Draco still ten years earlier, An. 1, Olymp. 52.  After Solon had visited Croesus, he went into Cilicia and some other places, and died [130] in his travels:  and this was in the second year of the Tyranny of Pisistratus. Comias was Archon when Solon returned from his first travels to Athens; and the next year Hegestratus was Archon, and Solon died before the end of the year, An. 3, Olymp. 57, as above:  and by this reckoning the objection of Plutarch above mentioned is removed.

We have now shewed that the Phoenicians of Zidon, under the conduct of Cadmus and other captains, flying from their enemies, came into Greece, with letters and other arts, about the sixteenth year of King David’s Reign; that Europa the sister of Cadmus, fled some days before him from Zidon and came to Crete, and there became the mother of Minos,