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birth of Abraham, Inachm founded the kingdom of Argos : 

 of him we know nothing more than that he was a Pdasgian, 

 consequently not an Egyptian; that he came to Greece 

 by sea, and thence was called a son of Neptune. He is 

 said to have reigned sixty years; his descendants succeeded 

 him in the kingdom of Argos for many generations : of 

 these the most noted was Danaus, whose genealogy indeed is 

 variously related. But the most probable account seems to 

 rne to be that given by Paiisanias Lib. 2, cap. 16 and 19; 

 he tells us that Triopas, the si.xth in descent from Inachns, 

 had two sons, lasits and Agenor ; that Jasus had a daughter 

 called Jo, who was carried into Egypt, and had a son called 

 Danaus, and that she being absent in Egypt, Cfotopus, the 

 son of Agenor, took advantage of her absence, and succeeded 

 his father in the. kingdom of Argos, and was himself suc- 

 ceeded by his son Stheneleits. The reigns of these two princes 

 lasted but thirty-two years.* In the mean time Danaus, 

 being then old enough to assert his right to his grandfather's 

 kingdom, as heir to lasus, came to Argos and laid his claim 

 before the people, who preferred it to that of Gelanor, the 

 son of Sthenekics, and thus he obtained the throne of Argos. 

 He neither led a colony there, as the Egyptians gave out, 

 nor fled from Egypt, as others pretended ; but obtained his 

 kingdom by the free voice of the people. His arrival in 

 Argos dates from the year I586f B. C. and consequently 

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*3 Jackson, 313. 



t 3 Jackson, 113, according to the Parian marbles corrected. 



