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fovereign ; and, under him, the Cretans enjoyed that happinefs, 

 which men enjoyed in the firfl ages of civility, before vices and 

 crimes, 



Et belli rabies et amor fucceffit habendl *. 



And from Saturn this happy age was called the Saturnian age, and 

 by him was earned to Italy, where he introduced the Egyptian ci- 

 viUty and arts ; for he was dethroned and expelled from Crete by 

 his fon Jupiter, and took refuge in a part of Italy, which, from giv- 

 ing ihelter and concealment to him, was called Lat'ium. His fon 

 Jupiter extended his dominions to Greece, and became a King and 

 a great God there. The Greeks, at that time, appear to have been 

 in a ftate altogether barbarous, and no better than wild hearts, and 

 worfe than wild beads in one refpeft, that they ate one another f. 

 Jupiter, therefore, by introducing civility and arts among them, may 

 be faid to have made men of them ; for which reafon, he was inti- 

 tied the father both of gods and men. But of the Greek gods, and 

 the Cretan traditions concerning them, I have faid a great deal more 

 in a differtation upon the Antient Hiftory of Greece, which I have 

 fubjoined by way of appendix to this volume. 



If there were any doubt of religion, civility, and arts, having 

 come from Egypt to Greece by the way of Crete, the colonies, 

 which from Egypt came to Greece, muft prove, I think incontefti- 

 bly, that the Greeks got civility and arts, not only by the way of 

 Crete, but diredtly and immediately from Egypt. The Egyptians, 

 living in fuch a happy climate, in io fruitful a country, and under 

 fo excellent a form of government, muft, as I have fliown, have 

 multiplied exceedingly ; being free of thofe vices and difeafes, and 



particularly 



* Virgil, ^neid. 8. v. 327. 



t See upon this fubjeft what 1 have faid on p. 95, and 139. of this vol. 



