viz. Theseus, Menestheus, Demophoon, Oxyntes, Aphidas, Thymaetes, Melanthus, and Codrus; these Kings, at 19 years a-piece one with another, might take up about 152 years, and end about 44 years before the Olympiads:  then Reigned twelve Archons for life, which at 14 or 15 years a-piece, the State being unstable, might take up about 174 years, and end An. 2, Olymp. 33:  then reigned seven decennial Archons, which are usually reckoned at seventy years; but some of them dying in their Regency, they might not take up above forty years, and so end about An. 2, Olymp. 43, about which time began the Second Messenian war:  these decennial Archons were followed by the annual Archons, amongst whom were the Legislators Draco and Solon.  Soon after the death of Codrus, his second Son Neleus, not bearing the Reign of his lame brother Medon at Athens, retired into Asia, and was followed by his younger brothers Androcles and Cyaretus, and many others:  these had the name of Ionians, from Ion the son of Xuthus, who commanded the army of the Athenians at the death of Erechtheus, and gave the name of Ionia to the country which they invaded:  and about 20 or 25 years after the death of Codrus, these new Colonies, being now Lords of Ionia, set up over themselves a common Council called Panionium, and composed of Counsellors sent from twelve of their cities, Miletus, Myus, Priene, Ephesus, Colophon, Lebedus, Teos, Clazomenae, Phocaea, Samos, Chios, and Erythraea:  and this was the Ionic Migration.

[131] When the Greeks and Latines were forming their Technical Chronology, there were great disputes about the Antiquity of Rome:  the Greeks made it much older than the Olympiads:  some of them said it was built by AEneas; others, by Romus, the son or grandson of AEneas; others, by Romus, the son or grandson of Latinus King of the Aborigines; others, by Romus the son of Ulysses, or of Ascanius, or of Italus:  and some of the Latines at first fell in with the opinion of the Greeks, saying that it was built by Romulus, the son or grandson of AEneas. Timaeus Siculus represented it built by Romulus, the grandson of AEneas, above an hundred years before the Olympiads; and so did Naevius the Poet, who was twenty years older than Ennius, and served in the first Punic war, and wrote the history of that war.  Hitherto nothing certain was agreed upon, but about 140 or 150 years after the death of Alexander the Great, they began to say that Rome was built a second time by Romulus, in the fifteenth Age after the destruction of Troy: