_Lelex_ might come with his people into _Laconia_ in the days of _Eli_, and leave his territories to his sons _Myles_, _Eurotas_, _Cleson_, and _Polycaon_ in the days of _Samuel_. _Myles_ set up a quern, or handmill to grind corn, and is reputed the first among the _Greeks_ who did so: but he flourished before _Triptolemus_, and seems to have had his corn and artificers from _Egypt_. _Eurotas_ the brother, or as some say the son of _Myles_, built _Sparta_, and called it after the name of his daughter _Sparta_, the wife of _Lacedæmon_, and mother of _Eurydice_. _Cleson_ was the father of _Pylas_ the father of _Sciron_, who married the daughter of _Pandion_ the son of _Erechtheus_, and contended with _Nisus_ the son of _Pandion_ and brother of _Ægeus_, for the Kingdom; and _Æacus_ adjudged it to _Nisus_. _Polycaon_ invaded _Messene_, then peopled only by villages, called it _Messene_ after the name of his wife, and built cities therein. _Cecrops_ came from _Sais_ in _Egypt_ to _Cyprus_, and thence into _Attica_: and he might do this in the days of _Samuel_, and marry _Agraule_ the daughter of _Actæus_, and succeed him in _Attica_ soon after, and leave his Kingdom to _Cranaus_ in the Reign of _Saul_, or in the beginning of the Reign of _David_: for the flood of _Deucalion_ happened in the Reign of _Cranaus_. Of about the same age with _Pelasgus_, _Inachus_, _Lelex_, and _Actæus_, was _Ogyges_: he Reigned in _Bœotia_, and some of his people were _Leleges_: and either he or his son _Eleusis_ built the city _Eleusis_ in _Attica_, that is, they built a few houses of clay, which in time grew into a city. _Acusilaus_ wrote that _Phoroneus_ was older than _Ogyges_, and that _Ogyges_ flourished 1020 years before the first Olympiad, as above; but _Acusilaus_ was an _Argive_, and feigned these things in honour of his country: to call things _Ogygian_ has been a phrase among the ancient _Greeks_, to signify that they are as old as the first memory of things; and so high we have now carried up the Chronology of the _Greeks_. _Inachus_ might be as old as _Ogyges_, but _Acusilaus_ and his followers made them seven hundred years older than the truth; and Chronologers, to make out this reckoning, have lengthened the races of the Kings of _Argos_ and _Sicyon_, and changed several contemporary Princes of _Argos_ into successive Kings, and inserted many feigned Kings into the race of the Kings of _Sicyon_.