is successors _Ornytion_, _Thoas_, _Demophon_,
_Propodas_, _Doridas_, and _Hyanthidas_ Reigned successively at _Corinth_,
'till the return of the _Heraclides_ into _Peloponnesus_: then Reigned the
_Heraclides_, _Aletes_, _Ixion_, _Agelas_, _Prumnis_, _Bacchis_, _Agelas
II_, _Eudamus_, _Aristodemus_, and _Telestes_ successively about 170 years,
and then _Corinth_ was governed by _Prytanes_ or annual Archons about 42
years, and after them by _Cypselus_ and _Periander_ about 48 years more.

_Celeus_ King of _Eleusis_, who was contemporary to _Erechtheus_, [148] was
the son of _Rharus_, the son of _Cranaus_, the successor of _Cecrops_; and
in the Reign of _Cranaus_, _Deucalion_ fled with his sons _Hellen_ and
_Amphictyon_ from the flood which then overflowed _Thessaly_, and was
called _Deucalion_'s flood: they fled into _Attica_, and there _Deucalion_
died soon after; and _Pausanias_ tells us that his Sepulchre was to be seen
near _Athens_. His eldest son _Hellen_ succeeded him in _Thessaly_, and his
other son _Amphictyon_ married the daughter of _Cranaus_, and Reigning at
_Thermopylae_, erected there the _Amphictyonic_ Council; and _Acrisius_ soon
after erected the like Council at _Delphi_. This I conceive was done when
_Amphictyon_ and _Acrisius_ were aged, and fit to be Counsellors; suppose
in the latter half of the Reign of _David_, and beginning of the Reign of
_Solomon_; and soon after, suppose about the middle of the Reign of
_Solomon_, did _Phemonoe_ become the first Priestess of _Apollo_ at
_Delphi_, and gave Oracles in hexameter verse: and then was _Acrisius_
slain accidentally by his grandson _Perseus_. The Council of _Thermopylae_
included twelve nations of the _Greeks_, without _Attica_, and therefore
_Amphictyon_ did not then Reign at _Athens_: he might endeavour to succeed
_Cranaus_, his wife's father, and be prevented by _Erechtheus_.

Between the Reigns of _Cranaus_ and _Erechtheus_, Chronologers place also
_Erichthonius_, and his son _Pandion_; but I take this _Erichthonius_ and
this his son _Pandion_, to be the same with _Erechtheus_ and his son and
successor _Pandion_, the names being only repeated with a little variation
in the list of the Kings of _Attica_: for _Erichthonius_, he that was the
son of the Earth, nursed up by _Minerva_, is by _Homer_ called
_Erechtheus_; and _Themistius_ [149] tells us, that it was _Erechtheus_
that first joyned a chariot to horses; and _Plato_ [150] alluding to the
story