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ma-nes, Lib. IV. c. viij aad; the$e, a<;cordiHg to StraliKf,^ 

 p. 49.5, wci-e Epirots. Tiws, the lojiic ladgiuage was ietw^ 

 duced into tJie eastern aad *esteiii regions «f Greqce 

 witliout tike isthmus. 



Of tlie successors of Ogyg€s, in Bceotiq, vuitil tUe reign 

 of Cecrops, an. 1582 before Chiist,* we have no accoiujt. 

 iVccordiug to Sbrabo, p. 624, be reigned in Bceotta: and, 

 as he led back tlie Athenians, or the greater part of them,, 

 into Attica, he is generally esteemed the first ki«g loi 

 Athens. It has been said, indeed, that he marripd Acfef 

 the daughter of Aeteus, king of Athens, Paus^n, 7; byt 

 this Philocorus affirms to be. a fiction. Some say lie >v'as 

 an Egyptian. It is highly probable, that he travelled into 

 Egypt; but not that he was an Egyptian: for E^seb. I^re-» 

 par. Evang.'.LJb ,iX. c. x,, expressly isaj^, Ije was a native 

 Athenian; and so does Apoljodorus, Lib. III. c. siii. He 

 was said to be of a double nature; probably, becaujse he 

 spoke both the Greek and Egyptian languages. 



During his reign, two i-emarkable events occurred; 

 uaniely, the contjuest of Thessaly, by Deucalion, an. 1541; 

 and tlie inundation, by Avhich it was laid waste, an. 1529, 

 commonly called Deucalion's Flood. 



Deucalion was the son of Prometheusj-f- who was said 

 to have come from Mount Caucasus; but, probably, rather 



from 



* The dates, in the sequel, are to be understood of years preceding the 

 "Christian aera; and, generally, taken from 1' Archer's edition of Herodotus, 



Vol. vir. 



t Dionys. Halicar. p. 14. 



