_Inachus_ is called the son of _Oceanus_, perhaps because he came to _Greece_ by sea: he might come with his people to _Argos_ from _Egypt_ in the days of _Eli_, and seat himself upon the river _Inachus_, so named from him, and leave his territories to his sons _Phoroneus_, _Ægialeus_, and _Phegeus_, in the days of _Samuel_: for _Car_ the son of _Phoroneus_ built a Temple to _Ceres_ in _Megara_, and therefore was contemporary to _Erechtheus_. _Phoroneus_ Reigned at _Argos_, and _Aegialeus_ at _Sicyon_, and founded those Kingdoms; and yet _Ægialeus_ is made above five hundred years older than _Phoroneus_ by some Chronologers: but [195] _Acusilaus_, [196] _Anticlides_ and [197] _Plato_, accounted _Phoroneus_ the oldest King in _Greece_, and [198] _Apollodorus_ tells us, _Ægialeus_ was the brother of _Phoroneus_. _Ægialeus_ died without issue, and after him Reigned _Europs_, _Telchin_, _Apis_, _Lamedon_, _Sicyon_, _Polybus_, _Adrastus_, and _Agamemnon_, _&c._ and _Sicyon_ gave his name to the Kingdom: _Herodotus_ [199] saith that _Apis_ in the _Greek_ Tongue is _Epaphus_; and _Hyginus_, [200] that _Epaphus_ the _Sicyonian_ got _Antiopa_ with child: but the later _Greeks_ have made two men of the two names _Apis_ and _Epaphus_ or _Epopeus_, and between them inserted twelve feigned Kings of _Sicyon_, who made no wars, nor did any thing memorable, and yet Reigned five hundred and twenty years, which is, one with another, above forty and three years a-piece. If these feigned Kings be rejected, and the two Kings _Apis_ and _Epopeus_ be reunited; _Ægialeus_ will become contemporary to his brother _Phoroneus_, as he ought to be; for _Apis_ or _Epopeus_, and _Nycteus_ the guardian of _Labdacus_, were slain in battle about the tenth year of _Solomon_, as above; and the first four Kings of _Sicyon_, _Ægialeus_, _Europs_, _Telchin_, _Apis_, after the rate of about twenty years to a Reign, take up about eighty years; and these years counted upwards from the tenth year of _Solomon_, place the beginning of the Reign of _Ægialeus_ upon the twelfth year of _Samuel_, or thereabout: and about that time began the Reign of _Phoroneus_ at _Argos_; _Apollodorus_ [201] calls _Adrastus_ King of _Argos_; but _Homer_ [202] tells us, that he Reigned first at _Sicyon_: he was in the first war against _Thebes_. Some place _Janiscus_ and _Phæstus_ between _Polybus_ and _Adrastus_, but without any certainty.