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malevolent intelligence, and hence endeavoured to rendel* 

 liim propitious by huniari sacrifices. But the Greeks, who 

 had some true traditions of their own concerning the person 

 so called, entertained a very different opinion of him, which 

 they nevertheless disfigured by a mixture of Phenician 

 fables, as will be shewn in the sequel. As for the Dioscitri, 

 their worship was certainly derived fi'om the Phenicians, 

 for they are mentioned by Sanchoniatho as the sons of 

 Sydoc, Euseb. 36. Herodotus owns the Egyptians knew 

 nothing of them. 



The worship of Pluto was also introduced into Greece by 

 the Phenicians, who called him Muth or Death; and is said 

 by Sanchoniatho to be the son of^Satuni, Euseb. 38. 

 ■ Thus we see that the Hellenes received the knowledge 

 of those Gods whom they principally adored from the 

 Phenicians. 



In the opinion of many, both of the ancients and moderns, 

 the Pelasgian part of Greece, namely, the Peloponnesus, 

 received its religious rites and worship from Egypt, as 

 Danaus, it is said, led a colony from Egypt, and settled in 

 Argos; but this Surely must be a mistake, for we do not 

 find that the Argives ever professed any other religion 

 than that of the Hellenes, and must therefore have derived 

 it from the same source ; and that no Egyptian colony ever 

 settled in Argos I shall tiow prove. 



Long before the reign of Cecrops, namely, in the year 

 1829 B. C. 147 before the birth of Moses, and 269 after the 



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