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fled for refiige to Boeotia. This we may infer, (for I find 

 no express proof of it,) from Boeotia having been anciently 

 called Ogygia. And, as Ogyges had, in Attica, built the 

 city of Eleusis, Euseb. Prepar. Evang. 489, so, in Boeotia, 

 there were cities, called Athens, and Elusis, in the a^e of 

 Cecrops, which were destroyed by a subsequent inunda- 

 tion, Strabo, 624, Pausan. 756: and, in Thebes, there was 

 a gate called Ogygia, Pausan. 728. Now Philocorus, an 

 ancient historian, who flourished in the reign of Antigo- 

 nus, king of Macedonia, denies, that any king reigned in 

 Attica, for 189 years after this deluge; and tells us, that 

 it remained waste, until the reign of Cecrops, Euseb. Pre- 

 par. Evang. 490. Since, therefore, Ogyges survived this 

 deluge, and did not reign after it in Attica, but left so 

 many marks of his presence in Boeotia, it naturally fol- 

 lows, that he remained and reigned there, as long as he 

 lived. That he survived the deluge, is affirmed by Euse- 

 Bius, in his chronicle. 



iij During the time that Ogyges reigned in Attica, and 

 xvhile he remained in Boeotia, and before the return of 

 the greater part of his colony to the Athenian territory, 

 that is, during 226 years, we may conclude, that many 

 Ionian families settled in Locris and Phocis;, as we find 

 them in those regions after that interval. 

 .' i'Such, also, of the descendants of Jon, as settled in 

 Epire, being pressed by the barbarians behind them, dur- 

 ing this interval, passed into Acarnania and Etolia. Pliny 

 expressly tells us, that Etolia was peopled by the Atha- 

 vox. X. X maues. 



