When _Sesostris_ returned from _Thrace_ into _Egypt_, he left _Æetes_ with part of his army in _Colchis_, to guard that pass; and _Phryxus_ and his sister _Helle_ fled from _Ino_, the daughter of _Cadmus_, to _Æetes_ soon after, in a ship whose ensign was a golden ram: _Ino_ was therefore alive in the fourteenth year of _Rehoboam_, the year in which _Sesostris_ returned into _Egypt_; and by consequence her father _Cadmus_ flourished in the Reign of _David_, and not before. _Cadmus_ was the father of _Polydorus_, the father of _Labdacus_, the father of _Laius_, the father of _Oedipus_, the father of _Eteocles_ and _Polynices_ who slew one another in their youth, in the war of the seven Captains at _Thebes_, about ten or twelve years after the _Argonautic_ Expedition: and _Thersander_, the son of _Polynices_, warred at _Troy_. These Generations being by the eldest sons who married young, if they be reckoned at about twenty and four years to a Generation, will place the birth of _Polydorus_ upon the 18th year of _David_'s Reign, or thereabout: and thus _Cadmus_ might be a young man, not yet married, when he came first into _Greece_. At his first coming he sail'd to _Rhodes_, and thence to _Samothrace_, an Island near _Thrace_ on the north side of _Lemnos_, and there married _Harmonia_, the sister of _Jasius_ and _Dardanus_, which gave occasion to the _Samothracian_ mysteries: and _Polydorus_ might be their son, born a year or two after their coming; and his sister _Europa_ might be then a young woman, in the flower of her age. These Generations cannot well be shorter; and therefore _Cadmus_, and his son _Polydorus_, were not younger than we have reckoned them: nor can they be much longer, without making _Polydorus_ too old to be born in _Europe_, and to be the son of _Harmonia_ the sister of _Jasius_. _Labdacus_ was therefore born in the end of _David_'s Reign, _Laius_ in the 24th year of _Solomon_'s, and _Oedipus_ in the seventh of _Rehoboam_'s, or thereabout: unless you had rather say, that _Polydorus_ was born at _Zidon_, before his father came into _Europe_; but his name _Polydorus_ is in the language of _Greece_.