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the manner of the
Phoenicians, and were called Shepherds by the Egyptians, who lived
only on the fruits of the earth, and abominated flesh-eaters. The upper
parts of Egypt were in those days under many Kings, Reigning at
Coptos, Thebes, This, Elephantis, and other Places, which by
conquering one another grew by degrees into one Kingdom, over which
Misphragmuthosis Reigned in the days of Eli.
In the year before Christ 1125 Mephres Reigned over the upper Egypt
from Syene to Heliopolis, and his Successor Misphragmuthosis made a
lasting war upon the Shepherds soon after, and caused many of them to
fly into Palestine, _Idumæa_, Syria, and _Libya_; and under Lelex,
_Æzeus_, Inachus, Pelasgus, _Æolus_ the first, Cecrops, and other
Captains, into Greece. Before those days Greece and all Europe was
peopled by wandring Cimmerians, and Scythians from the backside of
the Euxine Sea, who lived a rambling wild sort of life, like the Tartars
in the northern parts of Asia. Of their Race was Ogyges, in whose days
these Egyptian strangers came into Greece. The rest of the Shepherds
were shut up by Misphragmuthosis, in a part of the lower Egypt called
Abaris or Pelusium.
In the year 1100 the Philistims, strengthned by the access of the
Shepherds, conquer Israel, and take the Ark. Samuel judges Israel.
1085. _Hæmon_ the son of Pelasgus Reigns in Thessaly.

1080. Lycaon the son of Pelasgus builds _Lycosura_; Phoroneus the
son of Inachus, Phoronicum, afterwards called _Argos_; _Ægialeus_
the brother of Phoroneus and son of Inachus, _Ægialeum_, afterwards
called _Sicyon_: and these were the oldest towns in Peloponnesus. 'Till
then they built only single houses scattered up and down in the fields.
About the same time Cecrops built Cecropia in Attica, afterwards
called _Athens_; and Eleusine, the son of Ogyges, built Eleusis. And
these towns gave a beginning to the Kingdoms of the Arcadians,
Argives, Sicyons, Athenians, Eleusinians, &c. Deucalion flourishes.
1070. Amosis, or Tethmosis, the successor of Misphragmuthosis,
abolishes the Phoenician custom in Heliopolis of sacrificing men, and
drives the Shepherds out of Abaris. By their access the Philistims
become so numerous, as to bring into the field against Saul 30000
chariots, 6000 horsemen, and people as the sand on the sea shore for
multitude. Abas, the father of Acrisius and Proetus, comes from Egypt.
1069. Saul is made King of Israel, and by the hand of Jonathan gets a
great victory over the Philistims. Eurotas the son of Lelex, and
_Lacedæmon_ who married Sparta the daughter of Eurotas, Reign in
Laconia, and build Sparta.
1060.
Samuel dies.
1059. David made King.
1048. The Edomites are conquered and dispersed by David, and some
of them fly into Egypt with their young King Hadad. Others fly to the
Persian Gulph with their Commander _Oannes_; and others from the
Red Sea to the coast of the Mediterranean, and fortify Azoth against
David, and take _Zidon_; and the Zidonians who fled from them build
Tyre and Aradus, and make Abibalus King of Tyre. These Edomites
carry to all places their Arts and Sciences; amongst which were their
Navigation, Astronomy, and Letters; for in _Idumæa_ they had
Constellations and Letters before the days of Job, who mentions them:
and there Moses learnt to write the Law in a book. These Edomites who
fled to the Mediterranean, translating the word _Erythræa_ into that of
Phoenicia, give the name of Phoenicians to themselves, and that of

Phoenicia to all the sea-coasts of Palestine from Azoth to Zidon. And
hence came the tradition of the Persians, and of the Phoenicians
themselves, mentioned by Herodotus, that the Phoenicians came
originally from the Red Sea, and presently undertook long voyages on
the Mediterranean.
1047. Acrisius marries Eurydice, the daughter of _Lacedæmon_ and
Sparta. The Phoenician mariners who fled from the Red Sea, being
used to long voyages for the sake of traffic, begin the like voyages on
the Mediterranean from _Zidon_; and sailing as far as Greece, carry
away Io the daughter of Inachus, who with other Grecian women came
to their ships to buy their merchandize. The Greek Seas begin to be
infested with Pyrates.
1046. The Syrians of Zobah and Damascus are conquered by David.
Nyctimus, the son of Lycaon, reigns in Arcadia. Deucalion still alive.
1045. Many of the Phoenicians and Syrians fleeing from Zidon and
from David, come under the conduct of Cadmus, Cilix, Phoenix,
Membliarius, Nycteus, Thasus, Atymnus, and other Captains, into Asia
minor, Crete, Greece, and _Libya_; and introduce Letters, Music,
Poetry, the Octaeteris
, Metals and their Fabrication, and other Arts,
Sciences and Customs of the Phoenicians. At this time Cranaus the
successor of Cecrops Reigned in Attica, and in his Reign and the
beginning of the Reign of Nyctimus, the Greeks place the flood of
Deucalion. This flood was succeeded by four Ages or Generations of
men,