184 See Pausan. VII. 25. 3. 185 Αὐτὸς γὰρ Κρονίων, καλλιστεφάνου πόσις Ἥρης, Ζεὺς Ἡρακλείδαις τήνδε δέδωκε πόλιν. Οἷσιν ἅμα προλιπόντες Ἐρινεὸν ἠνεμόεντα, Εὐρεῖαν Πέλοπος νῆσον ἀφικόμεθα. τήνδε πόλιν is Laconia. _We_ mean the Dorians: Erineus the Tetrapolis. Strabo VIII. p. 362 has not correctly understood and applied these verses. (See below, note to ch. 7. § 10.) Tyrtæus also calls the Dorians generally Ἡρακλῆος γένος—whence Plutarch de Nobil. 2. p. 388. 186 Herodot. V. 72. According to VI. 53, he might also have said, “I am an Egyptian.” 187 A similar idea is entertained by Plato in his Laws, III. p. 682—viz., that the Dorians were properly Achæans, expelled from their own country after the Trojan war, and afterwards collected and brought back by one Dorieus. 188 Pind. Pyth. V. 70. In Pyth. I. 61, he calls them descendants of Pamphylus and the Heraclidæ, not mentioning Dymas. Compare the fragment of the Isthmians, Ὕλλου στρατὸς Δωριεύς. 189 See Pausan. IV. 2. 1. There are two other passages of Hesiod referring to the expedition of the Heraclidæ. Schol. Apollon I. 824. Θεσσάμενος γενεὴν Κλεαδαίου κυδαλίμοιο, the connexion of which is very obscure (see Bentley ad Callim. Cer. Calath. 48); and Schol. Pind. Olymp. XI. 79. _e cod. Vratisl_. Τιμάνδην Ἔχεμος θαλερὴν ποιήσατ᾽ ἄκοιτιν. From this passage Apollod. III. 10. 6. Pausan. VIII. 5. 1. draw their materials. This, however, might also occur among the actions of Hercules, particularly at the first Olympian festival, as may be seen from Pindar. 190 VI. 52. 191 Compare Pausan. IV. 2. 1. with V. 17. 4. and Valckenar. Diatrib. Eurip. pp. 58, 59. 192 Herod. ubi sup. et c. 51. Wesseling misinterprets the first passage; its purport is, “_The Lacedæmonians give a different account from all the poets, who make Eurysthenes and Procles first come to Sparta._” Schweighæuser does not see the exact meaning of the second; the sense is, “_So far is the national tradition of the Lacedæmonians; in what follows, I relate the common tradition of Greece._” 193 Herodot. IX. 26. 194 IX. 26. 195 In general the tragic poets successively descend, according to their age, to a later date of mythological history. 196 Pausan. IV. 2. 1.