of the
Argonauts in their youth; and his son
Orneus [138] was the father of
Peteos
the father of
Menestheus, who warred at
Troy:
nor much younger, because his second son
Pandion,
who with the
Metionides deposed his elder brother
Cecrops, was the father of
AEgeus, the
father of
Theseus; and
Metion, another
of his sons, was the father of
Eupalamus, the
father of
Daedalus, who was older than
Theseus;
and his daughter
Creusa married
Xuthus,
the son of
Hellen, and by him had two sons,
Achaeus and
Ion; and
Ion commanded
the army of the
Athenians against the
Eleusinians,
in the battle in which his grandfather
Erechtheus
was slain: and this was just before the institution
of the
Eleusinia Sacra, and before the Reign
of
Pandion the father of
AEgeus.
Erechtheus
being an
Egyptian procured corn from
Egypt,
and for that benefaction was made King of
Athens;
and near the beginning of his Reign
Ceres came
into
Attica from
Sicily, in quest of
her daughter
Proserpina. We cannot err
much if we make
Hellen contemporary to the
Reign of
Saul, and to that of
David
at
Hebron; and place the beginning of the Reign
of
Erechtheus in the 25th year, the coming
of
Ceres into
Attica in the 30th year,
and the dispersion of corn by
Triptolemus about
the 40th year of
David’s Reign; and the
death of
Ceres and
Erechtheus, and institution
of the
Eleusinia Sacra, between the tenth and
fifteenth year of
Solomon.
Teucer, Dardanus, Erichthonius,
Tros, Ilus, Laomedon, and Priamus
Reigned successively at Troy; and their Reigns,
at about twenty years a-piece one with another, amount
unto an hundred and forty years: which counted
back from the taking of Troy, place the beginning
of the Reign of Teucer about the fifteenth
year of the Reign of King David; and that of
Dardanus, in the days of Ceres, who lay
with Jasius the brother of Dardanus:
whereas Chronologers reckon that the six last of these
Kings Reigned 296 years, which is after the rate of
49-1/3 years a-piece one with another; and that they
began their Reign in the days of Moses. Dardanus
married the daughter of Teucer, the Son of
Scamander, and succeeded him: whence Teucer
was of about the same age with David.