So Thucydides [203] tells us, that under Cecrops and the ancient Kings, untill Theseus_; Attica was always inhabited city by city, each having Magistrates and Prytanea:  neither did they consult the King, when there was no fear of danger, but each apart administred their own common-wealth, and had their own Council, and even sometimes made war, as the Eleusinians with Eumolpus did against Erechtheus:  but when Theseus, a prudent and potent man obtained the Kingdom, he took away the Courts and Magistrates of the other cities, and made them all meet in one Council and Prytaneum at Athens_. Polemon, as he is cited by [204] Strabo, tells us, that in this body of Attica_, there were 170 [Greek:  demoi], one of which was Eleusis_:  and Philochorus [205] relates, that when Attica_ was infested by sea and land by the Cares and Boeoti, Cecrops the first of any man reduced the multitude, that is the 170 towns, into twelve cities, whose names were Cecropia, Tetrapolis, Epacria, Decelia, Eleusis, Aphydna, Thoricus, Brauron, Cytherus, Sphettus, Cephissia, and Phalerus; and that Theseus contracted those twelve cities into one, which was Athens_.

The original of the Kingdom of the Argives was much after the same manner:  for Pausanias [206] tells us, that Phoroneus_ the son of Inachus was the first who gathered into one community the Argives, who ’till then were scattered, and lived every where apart, and the place where they were first assembled was called Phoronicum, the city of Phoroneus_:  and Strabo [207] observes, that Homer_ calls all the places which he reckons up in Peloponnesus, a few excepted, not cities but regions, because each of them consisted of a convention of many_ [Greek:  demoi], free towns, out of which afterward noble cities were built and frequented:  so the Argives_ composed Mantinaea in Arcadia out of five towns, and Tegea out of nine; and out of so many was Heraea built by Cleombrotus, or by Cleonymus:  so also AEgium was built out of seven or eight towns, Patrae:  out of seven, and Dyme out of eight; and so Elis was erected by the conflux of many towns into one city._

Pausanias [208] tells us, that the Arcadians accounted Pelasgus the first man, and that he was their first King; and taught the ignorant people to built houses, for defending themselves from heat, and cold, and rain; and to make them garments of skins; and instead of herbs and roots, which were sometimes noxious, to eat the acorns of the beech tree; and that his son Lycaon built the oldest city in all Greece:  he tells us also, that