The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended - To which is Prefix'd, A Short Chronicle from the First - Memory of Things in Europe, to the Conquest of Persia by - Alexander the Great by Isaac Newton
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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_, _Ãzeus_, _Inachus_, _Pelasgus_, _Ãolus_ 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_; _Ãgialeus_ the brother of _Phoroneus_ and son of _Inachus_, _Ãgialeum_, 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_, |
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