according to Diodorus,* Orpheus, Homer, Pythagoras aud 

 Solon, went to lygypt for their instruction, as did wany 

 more, if the Egyptian priests are to be credited. -f- Cecrops 

 hiipiself, though a native Atlienian, seems to have been 

 educated in Egypt. 



A Phenician colony settled in Greece so early as the 

 year 1494 B. C. that is, about fifty-six years after the 

 accession of Cecrpps to the kingdom of Attica, and ten 

 years after the Peuca,lion deluge. 



Ca,dinus, who led this colony, was the son of Agenor, 

 king of Phenicia. The cause of his expatriation seems to 

 have been the progress which the Israelites were daily mak- 

 ing in the conquest of Canaan ; for he arrived in Greece 

 thirty-three years ^.fter the death of Joshua. The Canaanites 

 were struck with fe^r, and flocked to the sea coast, which 

 after some years could no longer maintain them. Cadmus, 

 unwilling tP expose the true reason of his emigration, pre- 

 tended his father had sent him to seek his sister Europa, and 

 forbid him to return until he had found her.J Part of 

 these Phenicians were soon after expelled from tlieir new 

 settlement by the Beotians, and retired to Athens, where 

 they were adopted on certain conditions as free citizens ; 

 to them Herodotus owns the Greeks were indebted for many 

 improverpents.ll Undoubtedly the Phenicians were much 

 more advanced in civilization than 1;he Greeks were at that 



time ; 



*Lib. 1. p. 80. tlbid. p. 107. 



t Herod. Lib. 4. § m, and Diodor. Lib. 4. § 2, p. 217. JLib, 5. § 57, Si. 



