Reign
one with another, took up about 220 years; and these years counted back
from the Return of the _Heraclides_, place the Flood of _Deucalion_ upon
the fourteenth year of _David_'s Reign, or thereabout.

_Herodotus_ [153] tells us, that the _Phoenicians_ who came with _Cadmus_
brought many doctrines into _Greece_: for amongst those _Phoenicians_ were
a sort of men called _Curetes_, who were skilled in the Arts and Sciences
of _Phoenicia_, above other men, and [154] settled some in _Phrygia_, where
they were called _Corybantes_; some in _Crete_, where they were called
_Idaei Dactyli_; some in _Rhodes_, where they were called _Telchines_; some
in _Samothrace_, where they were called _Cabiri_; some in _Euboea_, where,
before the invention of iron, they wrought in copper, in a city thence
called _Chalcis_ some in _Lemnos_, where they assisted _Vulcan_; and some
in _Imbrus_, and other places: and a considerable number of them settled in
_AEtolia_, which was thence called the country of the _Curetes_; until
_AEtolus_ the son of _Endymion_, having slain _Apis_ King of _Sicyon_, fled
thither, and by the assistance of his father invaded it, and from his own
name called it _AEtolia_: and by the assistance of these artificers,
_Cadmus_ found out gold in the mountain _Pangaeus_ in _Thrace_, and copper
at _Thebes_; whence copper ore is still called _Cadmia_. Where they settled
they wrought first in copper, 'till iron was invented, and then in iron;
and when they had made themselves armour, they danced in it at the
sacrifices with tumult and clamour, and bells, and pipes, and drums, and
swords, with which they struck upon one another's armour, in musical times,
appearing seized with a divine fury; and this is reckoned the original of
music in _Greece:_ so _Solinus_ [155] _Studium musicum inde coeptum cum
Idaei Dactyli modulos crepitu & tinnitu aeris deprehensos in versificum
ordinem transtulissent_: and [156] _Isidorus_, _Studium musicum ab Idaeis
Dactylis coeptum_. _Apollo_ and the Muses were two Generations later.
_Clemens_ [157] calls the _Idaei Dactyli_ barbarous, that is strangers; and
saith, that they reputed the first wise men, to whom both the letters which
they call _Ephesian_, and the invention of musical rhymes are referred: it
seems that when the _Phoenician_ letters, ascribed to _Cadmus_, were
brought into _Greece_, they were at the same time brought into _Phrygia_
and _Crete_, by the _Curetes_; who settled in those co