of _Erichthonius_ in a basket, saith, _The people of magnanimous
_Erechtheus_ is beautiful, but it behoves us to behold him taken out_:
_Erechtheus_ therefore immediately succeeded _Cranaus_, while _Amphictyon_
Reigned at _Thermopylae_. In the Reign of _Cranaus_ the Poets place the
flood of _Deucalion_, and therefore the death of _Deucalion_, and the Reign
of his sons _Hellen_ and _Amphictyon_, in _Thessaly_ and _Thermpolyae_, was
but a few years, suppose eight or ten, before the Reign of _Erechtheus_.

The first Kings of _Arcadia_ were successively _Pelasgus_, _Lycaon_,
_Nyctimus_, _Arcas_, _Clitor_, _AEpytus_, _Aleus_, _Lycurgus_, _Echemus_,
_Agapenor_, _Hippothous_, _AEpytus_ II, _Cypselus_, _Olaeas_, &c. Under
_Cypselus_ the _Heraclides_ returned into _Peloponnesus_, as above:
_Agapenor_ was one of those who courted _Helena_; he courted her before he
reigned, and afterwards he went to the war at _Troy_, and thence to
_Cyprus_, and there built _Paphos_. _Echemus_ slew _Hyllus_ the son of
_Hercules._ _Lycurgus_, _Cepheus_, and _Auge_, were [151] the children of
_Aleus_, the son of _Aphidas_, the son of _Arcas_, the son of _Callisto_,
the daughter of _Lycaon_: _Auge_ lay with _Hercules_, and _Ancaeus_ the son
of _Lycurgus_ was an _Argonaut_, and his uncle _Cepheus_ was his Governour
in that Expedition; and _Lycurgus_ stay'd at home, to look after his aged
father _Aleus_, who might be born about 75 years before that Expedition;
and his grandfather _Arcas_ might be born about the end of the Reign of
_Saul_, and _Lycaon_ the grandfather of _Arcas_ might be then alive, and
dye before the middle of _David_'s Reign; and His youngest son _Oenotrus_,
the _Janus_ of the _Latines_, might grow up, and lead a colony into _Italy_
before the Reign of _Solomon_. _Arcas_ received [152] bread-corn from
_Triptolemus_, and taught his people to make bread of it; and so did
_Eumelus_, the first King of a region afterwards called _Achaia_: and
therefore _Arcas_ and _Eumelus_ were contemporary to _Triptolemus_, and to
his old father _Celeus_, and to _Erechtheus_ King of _Athens_; and
_Callisto_ to _Rharus_, and her father _Lycaon_ to _Cranaus_: but _Lycaon_
died before _Cranaus_, so as to leave room for _Deucalion_'s flood between
their deaths. The eleven Kings of _Arcadia_, between this Flood and the
Return of the _Heraclides_ into _Peloponnesus_, that is, between the Reigns
of _Lycaon_ and _Cypselus_, after the rate of about twenty years to a