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was received there the more readily, as Elis was peopled 

 froin Etolia, and its first king, Ethiolus, was a son of a 

 daughter of Deucalion, Pausan. 375. 



Sicyon was, for many ages, governed by Pelasgic kings; 

 but, after the death of Corax, Epopeus, a Thessalian, suc- 

 ceeded him. His son, Laomedon, married Pheno, daugh- 

 ter of Clytius, an Athenian; and also assumed an Athe- 

 nian, called Sicyon, a grandson of Erectheus, king of 

 Athens, as his partner in the kingdom, gave him his 

 daughter in marriage, and named him his successor. From 

 him, that territory, before called Egialea, Avas called Si- 

 cyon. After him, Janiscus, also an Athenian, reigned: thus 

 the Hellenic language became predominant. Pausan. 124, 

 125. 



About the year 1374, Archander and Arciteles, sons of 

 Adieus, passed from Phthiotis to Argos, and married two 

 daughters of Danaus the second, who then reigned at Ar- 

 gos: by them, in memory of their father, both Argos and 

 Lacedemon were called Achaia. Pausan. 522. 



Not long after, that is, about the year 1362, Pelops, a 

 native of Sipyle, a town on the confines of Phrygia and 

 Lydia, came, with large treasures, into Peloponnesus, Thu- 

 cyd. Lib. I. cap. ix. hired a body of Acheans from Phthi- 

 otis; Avhich, at that time, was also called Achaia. Strabo, 

 56l. By marriage with Hippodamia, the daughter of Oeno- 

 maus, he became master of Pisa, in Elis; and afterwards 

 of Olympia. Pausan. 376. 1 Diodor. 317. His son, Atreus, 

 obtained the kingdom of Mycenae; and his grandson, 



voi,. X. V Agamemnon, 



