APPENDIX. 303 



«' Berne," printed in a volume called Archxologia, 

 or Mifccllaneoiis Trad:s, lately publiflied by the learned 

 body of Antiquarians, London, 1762. 



The intention of the moil ingenious author is to prove 

 that colonies came from Egypt to fettle in Athens, 

 which brought the arts and fciences in their train, and 

 planted them in Greece, among \ivhich the art of riding 

 was introduced and eftabliflied. The author fpeaks of 

 two different colonies, under two different leaders 

 which came from Egypt and fettled in Athens : thefe 

 were Cecrops and Ericlhomus. Having related the hiflory 

 Df Cecrops, he proceeds to give an account of the other 

 colonift) Eri5lbonius, Hiflorians and chronologifls, con- 

 tinues our author, mention two different kings who 

 were known by the fame appellation, and were fome^ 

 limes miflaken for each other. Their names were 

 Erecitbeus, or EriBhonius ; according to the fcholiafls of 

 Homer both were the fame. One of thefe chiefs was 

 the fourth, and the other the fixth king of Athens. 



The firft of thefe, as we are told by Diodoriis Siaihis, 

 was of Egyptian origin, and Attica being defolated by a 

 famine, fupplied it with corn ; in confideradon of the 

 friendfliip and alliance which formerly fubfifted be- 

 tween its inhabitants and the Egyptians, that is, for 

 the fake of the colony which was eftabliflied in Athens, 

 under his predeceflbr Cecrops. 



The ridiculous and abfurd etymologies by which 

 the grammarians pretended to explain the name of 



R r 2 EriBbonius, 



