2G The Rev. John Ken rick on the alleged 



The traditions of the flood of Ogyges will not detain us 

 long. Even his name, as a king of Attica, does not occur in 

 any extant author before the time of Alexander, and for most 

 of what we know of him we are indebted to the Christian 

 chronologers. A passage in Eusebius, Prcep.Evang. x. p. 10. 

 might lead us to conclude that the flood in his time had been 

 mentioned by Acusilaus, i. e. in the beginning of the 5th cen- 

 tury B. C. : 'Atio 'flyuyov tov nap exeivo/g (' Att ixo~i$) avTO^Sovos 

 iriTTEvQivTOSf 1$ o3 ysyovsv b (J.eya§ xa» TtpwTOc, sv tyj 'Attixyj xara- 

 xAu<7ju.0£ <£op«;vea>$ 'Apysiwv (2a<Ti\suovTO$, oo§ ' Axouarl\ao$ l<rropsi 9 

 l*>zXP l *?***m ' O Aupn a&o j, x.t. A. But it is difficult to know 

 what were the exact words of the original, and it may be that 

 the mention of the deluge proceeds from Eusebius himself, 

 especially as Syncellus has the following passage, (p. 119. ed. 

 Bonn.): coctts oullv a£»Ojw,vrjjU.o'veuTOv r ' ' E\\v\<nv \o~T0pi\Ta\ npb 'flyvyov, 

 Tt\r)v <Popooveu)$ tov o-vy^povlo-avTO; aura; xai 'hayov tov <Popwveoo$ 

 TrcLTph$i be, 7rpwT0$ "Apyovg e^acnAsucrsi/, oo$ ■ ' Axovo-l\ao$ Wropei, 

 I am therefore inclined to think that Acusilaus is properly to 

 be considered only as an evidence to the dominion of Phoro- 

 neus at Argos; or at most to the synchronism between him 

 and Ogyges. The name of Ogyges never occurs in Attic 

 poetry, nor is there any trace of him in the remains of Attic 

 art. Philochorus, who wrote his Atthis about 260 B.C. 

 seems to speak of Ogyges as king of Attica, according to the 

 quotation from Julius Africanus in Syncellus, (p. 281. ed. 

 Bonn.) : Tov yap 'flyuyov 'Axtouov, y) to, nKao-cro^sva toov ovo^octoov 

 ou&e ysveoSou <Pyjo-)v 6 <Pi\o%opoc. Yet even here I feel by no 

 means certain that tov 'flyuyov are not the words of the chro- 

 nologer*. There is no mention of Ogyges in the Parian 

 marble, which was engraved about the time when Philochorus 

 published his Atthis. 



* If any one should think that this is an attempt to get rid unfairly of 

 a witness, let him see what a license this same chronologer allows himself. 

 Mifivnreti li xxl ' HQohorog rvjs <x7roaTotoixs tuvtyi; (the defection of the Jews 

 under Moses) ku\ ' kpaoiog \» tyj fevTtgct, T^ona Zi nut ku\ 'lovluiau, eu 

 To?; TTS^tTifAuofcii/otg otvrwg KctTct^tOfiai/. Jul. Afr. ap. Sync. p. 281. If we 

 had no other knowledge of the Second Book of Herodotus than from this 

 passage, could we have ventured to doubt whether the name of Amosis, 

 if not of the Jews, occurred in it ? Heyne, Apoll. vol. ii. p. 320, on the 

 strength of this passage in Jul. Afr., supposes that something has dropt out 

 of the text of Apollodorus, at the beginning of 3. 14. in which, if we had 

 it, we should find something about Ogyges. Yet the actual commence- 

 ment of that chapter, KtK(>o\p ui/ro^cou tjj$ ' ArTtscqc t&ccafaevas ir^a-tog, x,otl 

 tvjv yw, Tr^oTinov "hsyopiuriv ' Aktvjv u,($ suvtov Kex.^07rixu uvopuosv, does 

 not look as if it had ever been preceded by an account of Ogyges, a prede- 

 cessor of Cecrops. With the same inaccuracy Syncellus (i. 238.) makes 

 Plato in the Timaus speak of " the flood in. the time of Ogyges," though 

 Plato never mentions his name. 



