in the days of Lelex the Spartans lived in villages apart.  The Greeks therefore began to build houses and villages in the days of Pelasgus the father of Lycaon, and in the days of Lelex the father of Myles, and by consequence about two or three Generations before the Flood of Deucalion, and the coming of Cadmus; ’till then [209] they lived in woods and caves of the earth.  The first houses were of clay, ’till the brothers Euryalus and Hyperbius taught them to harden the clay into bricks, and to build therewith.  In the days of Ogyges, Pelasgus, AEzeus, Inachus and Lelex, they began to build houses and villages of clay, Doxius the son of Coelus teaching them to do it; and in the days of Lycaon, Phoroneus, AEgialeus, Phegeus, Eurotas, Myles, Polycaon, and Cecrops, and their sons, to assemble the villages into [Greek:  demoi], and the [Greek:  demoi] into cities.

When Oenotrus the son of Lycaon carried a Colony into Italy, he [210] found that country for the most part uninhabited; and where it was inhabited, peopled but thinly:  and seizing a part of it, he built towns in the mountains, little and numerous, as above:  these towns were without walls; but after this Colony grew numerous, and began to want room, they expelled the Siculi_, compassed many cities with walls, and became possest of all the territory between the two rivers Liris and Tibre_:  and it is to be understood that those cities had their Councils and Prytanea after the manner of the Greeks:  for Dionysius [211] tells us, that the new Kingdom of Rome, as Romulus left it, consisted of thirty Courts or Councils, in thirty towns, each with the sacred fire kept in the Prytaneum of the Court, for the Senators who met there to perform Sacred Rites, after the manner of the Greeks:  but when Numa_ the successor of Romulus Reigned, he leaving the several fires in their own Courts, instituted one common to them all at Rome_:  whence Rome was not a compleat city before the days of Numa.

When navigation was so far improved that the Phoenicians began to leave the sea-shore, and sail through the Mediterranean by the help of the stars, it may be presumed that they began to discover the islands of the Mediterranean, and for the sake of trafic to sail as far as Greece:  and this was not long before they carried away Io the daughter of Inachus, from Argos.  The Cares first infested the Greek seas with piracy, and then Minos the son of Europa got up a potent fleet, and sent out Colonies:  for Diodorus [212] tells us, that the Cyclades islands, those near Crete, were at first desolate and uninhabited;