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sion. And, Lib. I. §. 143, he calls Athens an Ionian city. 

 He adds, indeed, that the Athenians (in after times, name- 

 ly, in that of Cyrus) were ashamed of being called lonians. 

 If this be true, it was, evidently, on account of the weak 

 state of the Ionian colonies, in the reign of Cyrus : but 

 Plutarch, in his treatise on the malignity of Herodotus, 

 §.21, absolutely denies it. It must, also, be remembered, 

 that Herodotus was a Dorian; a tribe always jealous of 

 the Athenians. He owns, that several, if not most of the 

 Ionian colonies, gloried in that name. 



AVe may date the arrival of the lonians in Attica, from 

 the reign of Ogyges, 'Avho was, probably, their leader, and 

 began his reign 1796 years before the Christian aera, see 

 7 I'Archer's Herodotus; that is, 848 years after the confu- 

 sion of languages, and the dispersion of mankind; 374 

 years after the commencement of the Pelasgic kingdom of 

 Sicyon, under .ffigialeus; I76 years after the commence- 

 ment of another Pelasgic kingdom, in Argos, by Inachus. 

 Thus, we see the Pelasgi, after their expulsion from Ionia, 

 had sufficient time to spread themselves all over Greece, 

 before the arrival of Ogyges. About thirty-seven years af- 

 ter his arrival, that is, about the year 1759 before Christ, 

 he was obliged to quit Attica, by that great inundation, 

 which still bears his name; occasioned, most probably, by 

 the rupture of the isthmus, which separated the Black 

 sea from the Mediterranean ; whose efflux, and reaction, 

 were felt on the shores of Asia Minor, and Attica. He, 

 his subjects, and his neighbours, the Aones and Temnices, 



fled 



