_Solomon_, did _Phemonoë_ 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 _Thermopylæ_
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 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 _Thermopylæ_. 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 _Thermpolyæ_, 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_, _Æpytus_, _Aleus_, _Lycurgus_, _Echemus_,
_Agapenor_, _Hippothous_, _Æpytus_ II, _Cypselus_, _Olæas_, &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