Vor. IV.) 
abundantly fupplied with fprings of 
water, which were of a falutary tempe- 
rament, both in fummerand winter. In 
this. manner then thefe places were for- 
merly inhabited jsand the men, of whom 
we have been fpeaking, were guardians 
of their own citizens, but leaders of the 
other willing Greeks. ‘Fhey likewife 
were efpecially careful that there might 
always be the fame number of men and 
women, whe by their age are able to 
fight, and that this number might not 
be lefs than twenty thoufand. Thefe 
men, therefore, being fuch as we have 
defcribed, and always juttly adminiftering 
in this manner both their own affairs 
and thofe of all Greece, they were 
efteemed and renowned beyond every 
other nation, by all Europe and Afi, 
both for the beauty of their bodies, and 
the all-various virtue of their fouls. . 
In the next place, I fhall communicate 
to you, from the beginning, the parti- 
culars refpeéting the adverfaries of thefe 
men, if I am able to recolle&t what I 
heard when I was a boy. But fome- 
what prior to this narration it is proper 
to obferve, that you muft not be fur- 
prized at often hearing me mention 
Grecian names of barbarous men. For 
the caufe of this is as follows: Solon 
intending to infert this narration in his 
verfes, inveftigated for this purpofe the 
‘power of names, and found that thofe 
firft Egyptians, who committed thefe 
particulars to writing, transferred thefe 
names into theirown tongue. He, there- 
fore, again receiving the meaning of 
“every name, introduced that meaning 
into our language. And thele writings 
were in the poffeffion of my grand-father, 
and aré now in mine: they were like- 
wife the fubje& of my meditation while 
1 wasa boy. If, therefore, in the courfe 
of this narration you hear fuch names as. 
fubfiit among us at prefent you mult fot 
be furprized; for you’ know the caufe. 
But it will require a long difcourfe to 
fpeak from the beginning, as I did be- 
fore, concerning the allotments of the 
gods, and to fhew how they diftributed 
the whole earth; here into larger, and 
there into leffer allotments, and procured 
temples. and facrifices for themfelves. 
Neptune, indeed, being allotted the At- 
lantic ifland, fettled his offspring, by a 
mortal woman, ina certain part of the 
ifland, of the following defeription: 
Towards the fea, but in the middle of 
the ifland, there was a plain, which is 
{aid to have been the moft beautiful of 
Montary Mac, XXXVI. 
State of Athens go0o Years before Solon. 
‘ble to men. 
527 
all plains, and diftinguifhed by the ferti- 
lity of the foil.” Near this plain, and 
again in the middle of it, at the diftance 
of fifty ftadia, there was a very low 
mountain. This was inhabited by’ oné 
of thofe men, who in the beginning 
fprung from the eatth, and whofe name 
~was Evenor. This man living with @ 
woman called’ Leucippe, had by her 
Clites, who was His only daughter. Bur 
when the virgin arrived at maturity, and 
her father and-mother were dead, Nep- 
tune *, being captivated with her beauty, 
had conneétion with her, and enclofed 
the hill on which the dwelt with fpiral 
ftreams of ‘water; the fea and the land, 
at the fame time, alternately forming 
about each other leffer and larger ‘zones. 
Of thefe, two were formed by the land, 
and three by the fea: and thefe zones, 
as'if made by a turnet’s wheel, were in 
all parts equi-diftant from the middle of 
the ifland; fo that the hill was inaccefi- 
For at that time there were 
no fhips, and the art of failing was then 
unknown. But Neptune, as being a 
divinity, eafily adorned the ifland in the 
middle; caufed two fountains of water 
to {pring up from under the earth, one 
cold and the other hot, and likewife be. 
ftowed all various and fufficient aliment. 
from the earth. He alfo begat and edu- 
cated five births of male twins; and hav- 
ing diftributed all rhe*Atlantic ifland into 
ten parts, he beftowed upon his firft- 
born fon his maternal habitation, and the ° 
furrounding land; this being the largeft 
and the beft divifion. He likewife efta- 
blifhed this fon king of the whole ifland, 
and made the reft of his fons governors. 
But he gave to each of them dominion 
over many people, and an extended tract 
of land. Befides this too, he gave all of 
them names. And his firft-born fon, 
indeed, who was the king of all the reft, 
LT LN, 
* Every god, according tothe Platonic 
theology beginning from on high, produces his 
proper feries as far as to the lait of things, and 
this feries comprehends many effences diffe - 
rent from each other, fuch as angeélical, demo 
niacal, heroical, nymphical, and the like. The 
loweft powers of thefe orders. have a’ gtéat 
communion and phyfical fympathy with the ° 
human. racey. and contribute to the perfe@ion 
of ail their natural operations, and particularly 
to. their procreations.. Hence a dzemonjacal 
Neptune, by contributing to the procreation of 
the offspring of Clites, is, in. mythological 
language, faid to have been captivated with 
her beauty, and to haye had connection with 
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