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quently, before the arrival of the lonians in Attica. Yet, 

 I am rather disposed to think, that he was an Ionian 

 king; and that this Flood happened after the Ionian de- 

 scent; for the Athenians celebrated the anniversary of that 

 inundation for many centuries; as Plutarch informs us, in 

 his Life of Sylla.* Now, it does not appear likely, that 

 they would commemorate an event, that happened in that 

 country before they arrived in, and inhabited it. Nor 

 would they claim a barbarian king, as Ogyges must have 

 been, if he reigned only over the Aones and Temnices: 

 for these are expressly called barbarians,f by Strabo, 

 Lib. IX. 615. Nay, Africanus, in Euseb. Prepar. Evang. 

 488, expressly calls him a native Athenian, that is, Ionian. 

 1 shall now continue to establish the Ionian origin of 

 the Athenians particularly, and, generally, of all the Greeks; 

 not denying, that several barbarian tribes were incorpo- 

 rated with them. 



Strabo, Lib. VIII. 513, tells us, there were as many 

 Grecian tribes as there were varieties of Greek dialects; 

 and, that of these, the ancient Attic was the same as the 

 Ionic: for, that the ancient inhabitants of Attica were 

 called lonians; from whom sprung the lonians, who after- 

 wards settled in Asia: and, that the Doric was the same 

 as the iEolic. Now, let it not be said, the inhabitants of 

 Attica were called lonians, from Jod, the son of Xuthus; 



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* Vol. IV. p. 148, English. 



t That is, they spoke a different language from tlie Greek. 



