_Eleusinia Sacra_, between the tenth and fifteenth year of _Solomon_. _Teucer_, _Dardanus_, _Erichthonius_, _Tros_, _Ilus_, _Laomedon_, and _Priamus_ Reigned successively at _Troy_; and their Reigns, at about twenty years a-piece one with another, amount unto an hundred and forty years: which counted back from the taking of _Troy_, place the beginning of the Reign of _Teucer_ about the fifteenth year of the Reign of King _David_; and that of _Dardanus_, in the days of _Ceres_, who lay with _Jasius_ the brother of _Dardanus_: whereas Chronologers reckon that the six last of these Kings Reigned 296 years, which is after the rate of 49⅓ years a-piece one with another; and that they began their Reign in the days of _Moses_. _Dardanus_ married the daughter of _Teucer_, the Son of _Scamander_, and succeeded him: whence _Teucer_ was of about the same age with _David_. Upon the return of _Sesostris_ into _Egypt_, his brother _Danaus_ not only attempted his life, as above, but also commanded his daughters, who were fifty in number and had married the sons of _Sesostris_, to slay their husbands; and then fled with his daughters from _Egypt_, in a long ship of fifty oars. This Flight was in the fourteenth year of _Rehoboam_. _Danaus_ came first to _Lindus_, a town in _Rhodes_, and there built a Temple, and erected a Statue to _Minerva_, and lost three of his daughters by a plague which raged there; and then sailed thence with the rest of his daughters to _Argos_. He came to _Argos_ therefore in the fifteenth or sixteenth year of _Rehoboam_: and at length contending there with _Gelanor_ the brother of _Eurystheus_ for the crown of _Argos_, was chosen by the people, and Reigned at _Argos_, while _Eurystheus_ Reigned at _Mycenæ_; and _Eurystheus_ was born [139] the same year with _Hercules_. _Gelanor_ and _Eurystheus_ were the sons of _Sthenelus_, by _Nicippe_ the daughter of _Pelops_; and _Sthenelus_ was the son of _Perseus_, and Reigned at _Argos_, and _Danaus_, who succeeded him at _Argos_, was succeeded there by his son in law _Lynceus_, and he by his son _Abas_; that _Abas_ who is commonly, but erroneously, reputed the father of _Acrisius_ and _Prætus_. In the time of the _Argonautic_ expedition _Castor_ and _Pollux_ were beardless young men, and their sisters _Helena_ and _Clytemnestra_ were children, and their wives _Phœbe_ and _Ilaira_ were also very young: all these, with the _Argonauts_ _Lynceus_ and _Idas_, were the grandchildren of _Gorgophone_, the daughter of _Perseus_, the son of _Danae_, the daughter of _Acrisius_ and _Eurydice_; and _Perieres_ and _Oebalus_, the husbands of _Gorgophone_, were the sons of _Cynortes_, the son of _Amyclas_, the brother of _Eurydice_. _Mestor_ or _Mastor_, the brother of _Sthenelus_, married _Lysidice_, another of the daughters of _Pelops_: and _Pelops_ married _Hippodamia_, the daughter of _Evarete_, the daughter of _Acrisius_. _Alcmena_, the mother of _Hercules_, was the daughter of _Electryo_; and