_Androgeus_ the son of _Minos_, upon his overcoming in the _Athenæa_, or quadrennial Games at _Athens_ in his youth, was perfidiously slain out of envy: and _Minos_ thereupon made war upon the _Athenians_, and compelled them to send every eighth year to _Crete_ seven beardless Youths, and as many young Virgins, to be given as a reward to him that should get the Victory in the like Games instituted in _Crete_ in honour of _Androgeus_. These Games seem to have been celebrated in the beginning of the _Octaeteris_, and the _Athenæa_ in the beginning of the _Tetraeteris_, then brought into _Crete_ and _Greece_ by the _Phœnicians_ and upon the third payment of the tribute of children, that is, about seventeen years after the said war was at an end, and about nineteen or twenty years after the death of _Androgeus_, _Theseus_ became Victor, and returned from _Crete_ with _Ariadne_ the daughter of _Minos_; and coming to the Island _Naxus_ or _Dia_, [84] _Ariadne_ was there relinquished by him, and taken up by _Glaucus_, an _Egyptian_ Commander at Sea, and became the mistress of the great _Bacchus_, who at that time returned from _India_ in Triumph; and [85] by him she had two sons, _Phlyas_ and _Eumedon_, who were _Argonauts_. This _Bacchus_ was caught in bed in _Phrygia_ with _Venus_ the mother of _Æneas_, according [86] to _Homer_; just before he came over the _Hellespont_, and invaded _Thrace_; and he married _Ariadne_ the daughter of _Minos_, according to _Hesiod_ [87]: and therefore by the Testimony of both _Homer_ and _Hesiod_, who wrote before the _Greeks_ and _Egyptians_ corrupted their Antiquities, this _Bacchus_ was one Generation older than the _Argonauts_; and so being King of _Egypt_ at the same time with _Sesostris_, they must be one and the same King: for they agree also in their actions; _Bacchus_ invaded _India_ and _Greece_, and after he was routed by the Army of _Perseus_, and the war was composed, the _Greeks_ did him great honours, and built a Temple to him at _Argos_, and called it the Temple of the _Cresian Bacchus_, because _Ariadne_ was buried in it, as _Pausanias_ [88] relates. _Ariadne_ therefore died in the end of the war, just before the return of _Sesostris_ into _Egypt_, that is, in the 14th year of _Rehoboam_: She was taken from _Naxus_ upon the return of _Bacchus_ from _India_, and then became the Mistress of _Bacchus_, and accompanied him in his Triumphs; and therefore the expedition of _Theseus_ to _Crete_, and the death of his father _Ægeus_, was about nine or ten years after the death of _Solomon_. _Theseus_ was then a beardless young man, suppose about 19 or 20 years old, and _Androgeus_ was slain about twenty years before, being then about 20 or 22 years old; and his father _Minos_ might be about 25 years older, and so be born about the middle of _David_'s Reign, and be about 70 years old when he pursued _Dædalus_ into _Sicily_: and _Europa_ and her brother _Cadmus_ might come into _Europe_, two or three years