_Lycurgus_, published his laws in the Reign of _Agesilaus_, the son and successor of _Doryagus_, in the Race of the Kings of _Sparta_ descended from _Eurysthenes_. From the Return of the _Heraclides_ into _Peloponnesus_, to the end of the Reign of _Agesilaus_, there were six Reigns: and from the same Return to the end of the Reign of _Polydectes_, in the Race of the _Spartan_ Kings descended from _Procles_, there were also six Reigns: and these Reigns, at twenty years a-piece one with another, amount unto 120 years; besides the short Reign of _Aristodemus_, the father of _Eurysthenes_ and _Procles_, which might amount to a year or two: for _Aristodemus_ came to the crown, as [34] _Herodotus_ and the _Lacedæmonians_ themselves affirmed. The times of the deaths of _Agesilaus_ and _Polydectes_ are not certainly known: but it may be presumed that _Lycurgus_ did not meddle with the Olympic games before he came to the Kingdom; and therefore _Polydectes_ died in the beginning of the 18th Olympiad, or but a very little before. If it may be supposed that the 20th Olympiad was in, or very near to the middle time between the deaths of the two Kings _Polydectes_ and _Agesilaus_, and from thence be counted upwards the aforesaid 120 years, and one year more for the Reign of _Aristodemus_; the reckoning will place the Return of the _Heraclides_, about 45 years before the beginning of the Olympiads. _Iphitus_, who restored the Olympic games, [35] was descended from _Oxylus_, the son of _Hæmon_, the son of _Thoas_, the son of _Andræmon_: _Hercules_ and _Andræmon_ married two sisters: _Thoas_ warred at _Troy_: _Oxylus_ returned into _Peloponnesus_ with the _Heraclides_. In this return he commanded the body of the _Ætolians_, and recovered _Elea_; [36] from whence his ancestor _Ætolus_, the son of _Endymion_, the son of _Aethlius_, had been driven by _Salmoneus_ the grandson of _Hellen_. By the friendship of the _Heraclides_, _Oxylus_ had the care of the Olympic Temple committed to him: and the _Heraclides_, for his service done them, granted further upon oath that the country of the _Eleans_ should be free from invasions, and be defended by them from all armed force: And when the _Eleans_ were thus consecrated, _Oxylus_ restored the Olympic games: and after they had been again intermitted, _Iphitus_ their King [37] restored them, and made them quadrennial. _Iphitus_ is by some reckoned the son of _Hæmon_, by others the son of _Praxonidas_, the son of _Hæmon_: but _Hæmon_ being the father of _Oxylus_, I would reckon _Iphitus_ the son of _Praxonidas_, the son of _Oxylus_, the son of _Hæmon_. And by this reckoning the Return of the _Heraclides_ into _Peloponnesus_ will be two Generations by the eldest sons, or about 52 years, before the Olympiads.