and account _Phidon_ the seventh from _Temenus_; which is after the rate of
85 years to a Generation, and therefore not to be admitted.

_Cyrus_ took _Babylon_, according to _Ptolomy_'s Canon, nine years before
his death, _An. Nabonass._ 209, _An._ 2, Olymp. 60: and he took _Sardes_ a
little before, namely _An._ 1, Olymp. 59, as _Scaliger_ collects from
_Sosicrates_: _Crœsus_ was then King of _Sardes_, and Reigned fourteen
years, and therefore began to Reign _An._ 3, Olymp. 55. After _Solon_ had
made laws for the _Athenians_, he obliged them upon oath to observe those
laws 'till he returned from his travels; and then travelled ten years,
going to _Egypt_ and _Cyprus_, and visiting _Thales_ of _Miletus_: and upon
His Return to _Athens_, _Pisistratus_ began to affect the Tyranny of that
city, which made _Solon_ travel a second time; and now he was invited by
_Crœsus_ to _Sardes_; and _Crœsus_, before _Solon_ visited him, had subdued
all _Asia Minor_, as far as to the River _Halys_; and therefore he received
that visit towards the latter part of his Reign; and we may place it upon
the ninth year thereof, _An._ 3, Olymp. 57: and the legislature of _Solon_
twelve years earlier, _An._ 3, Olymp. 54: and that of _Draco_ still ten
years earlier, _An._ 1, Olymp. 52. After _Solon_ had visited _Crœsus_, he
went into _Cilicia_ and some other places, and died [130] in his travels:
and this was in the second year of the Tyranny of _Pisistratus_. _Comias_
was Archon when _Solon_ returned from his first travels to _Athens_; and
the next year _Hegestratus_ was Archon, and _Solon_ died before the end of
the year, _An._ 3, Olymp. 57, as above: and by this reckoning the objection
of _Plutarch_ above mentioned is removed.

We have now shewed that the _Phœnicians_ of _Zidon_, under the conduct of
_Cadmus_ and other captains, flying from their enemies, came into _Greece_,
with letters and other arts, about the sixteenth year of King _David_'s
Reign; that _Europa_ the sister of _Cadmus_, fled some days before him from