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ges were a very ancient, and a very large, body of people. They spread over the coast of Asia Minor: and occupied many of the islands. They settled likewise in Greece, as Megara. Lelex, supposed to be the chief conductor, is represented as king of that place; and is said to have migrated from '.Egypt. The same people were possessed of a large part of Laconia: and a Lelex is mentioned as the first king of that region; which for a time had the name of Lelegia. Erectheus was an ancient king of Athens, but of 4 Egyptian extraction. As he was acquainted with the fertility of that country, he in a time of scarcity is said to have imported from thence corn for the support of his people. Some time before him Cecrops is said to have come over; who, according to tradition, was the

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* Λεγεσιν οι Μεγαρεις Λελεγα αφικόμενον εξ Αιγύπτε βασιλεύσαι. Pausan. 1. 1. p. 95.

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first king in Attica. He came from 'Saïs in Lower Egypt: all the Athenians were reputed to have been originally Saites. After him another colony was brought by Danaus, and Lynceus: both of whom, as the priests at Thebes told Herodotus, were from a city of that Name, called * Chemmis. Diodorus, speaking of some very early persons, and occurrences, says, that in those times 5 Danaus came from Egypt: and that Cadmus arrived soon after. Some make Cadmus rather prior and place Danaus third. Danaus tertiam duxit coloniam. Marsham. Chron. sec. IX. p. 125. The place, from which Cadmus led his colony, is said to have been Thebes

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1 Ως δε απο της Σαέως πολεως Αιγυπτίας, ὁ Κέκροψ παραγέγονεν Abnvais Tns "Exrados. Joh. Tzetzes. Chil. 5. Hist. 18. p. 91. Ελθων γαρ απο Σαέως πολεως Αίγυπτο, τας Αθήνας συνῴκισε. Tzetzes. Schol. in Lycoph. v. 111.

Κέκροψ, Αιγυπτιος ων το γένος, ᾤκησε τας Αθήνας. Suidas.

3 Αθηναίες αποικες Σαΐτων Diodor. 1. 1. P. 24.

Is.

3 Τον γαρ Δαναον και τον Λυγκέα (εφασαν) έοντας Χεμμιτας εκπλώνον και ες την Ελλάδα. Herod. 1. 2. c. 91. p. 144.

4 Εστι δε Χεμμις πολις μεγαλη νομ8 τε Θηβαϊκε. Ibid.

5 Κατα δε τετές τις χρονος Δαναος εφυγεν εξ Αιγύπτε.

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Ibid.

p. 329.

Diodor.

Μίκρον σερον τέτων των χρόνων (Δανας, Λίνδο, Ιαλυσε) Καδμος.

7 Φοινιξ και Καδμος.

cellus, p. 158.

απο Θήβων των Αιγυπτιων. κ. τ. λ. Syn

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in Upper Egypt.

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same part of the world: whose companions and posterity were stiled * Melampodes: and resided in the region of Argos.

Of the Rites and Customs imported.

These emigrants from Egypt brought with them into Greece the rites and ceremonies of

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the country which they left. Melampus introduced the 4 Dionusiaca, and all those obscenities with which they were accompanied. He is likewise said to have first taught the Grecians the mysteries of Ceres; which To him were

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were equally base and impure.

attributed the rites of lustration and expiation; together with the science of physic and the

'Herod. 1. 2. c. 49. p. 127. Diodorus Sic. 1. 1. p. 87. 2 Pausan. 1. &. p. 636.

3 Herod. 1. 2. c. 43. p. 124.--c. 48, 49. p. 127.—c. 50. p. 128.-c. 58. p. 131. See also Diodorus, l. 1. p. 20, 21. p. 62, 63. and 86.

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Ελλησι γας δη Μελαμπες εσι ὁ ἡγησάμενος του Διονυσε το τε όνομα, και την θυσίην, και την πομπην τε φαλλό.. -Toy do wy Φαλλον. -Μελαμπες επι κατηγησαμενος. Herod. 1. 2. c. 49.

p. 127.

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Μελαμποδα δε τον Αμυθάονος αλλοι φασιν εξ Αιγυπτε μετακόμισαι

η Ελλαδι της Δης εορτας πενθος ὑμνούμενον. Clemens Cohort. p. 12.

art of augury. augury. Herodotus Herodotus says, that almost

all the names of the Grecian deities came from

Egypt. Diodorus Siculus, though he entertains some doubts about many of these ancient traditions, yet allows, from the evidence of the Athenians, that the Eleusinian mysteries were imported in the time of Erectheus: and that there was a great conformity between the religious ceremonies of 3 Attica and Egypt: and a wonderful likeness between the people of each nation. We may trace the country from whence Cadmus came, by the mysterious history, with which his arrival was attended. For it is said, that as he journeyed towards his place of settlement in Bæotia, he was conducted by a cow, which had a lunar mark

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Apollodorus, 1. 1. p. 90. edit. Heynæ.

* Σχεδον δε και παντα τα ονόματα των θεών εξ Αιγύπτε ελήλυθε ες Ελλαδα. Herod. 1. 2. c. 50. Ρ. 128.

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Προς τούτοις αι τελεται και τα μυτήρια ταυτης της θεε τοτε κατεδείχθησαν εν Ελευσινί, τα τε περί τας θυσίας και αρχαιότητας ὡσαύτως έχειν Αθηναίες και Αιγυπτι8ς. Τις μεν γαρ Ευμολπίδας απο των κατ' Αίγυπτον ἱέρεων μετενηνεχθαι, τους δε κηρυκας των 7250φορών. Την τε Ισιν μονους των Ελλήνων ομνύειν, και ταις ιδέαις και τοις ήθεσιν ὁμοιοτατους είναι τοις Αιγυπτιοις (τους Αθηναίες). Diod. 1. 1. p. 25, 26.

4 Απίοντι εκ Δελφων Καδμῳ την επι Φωκέων σας γένοιτο ήγεμων της πορείας.—επι δε έκατέρας της βοος πλευράς σημείον επείναι λευκον, εικασμένον κυκλῳ της Σελήνης, όποτε ειη πληρης. Paus. l. 9. p. 733.

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on her sides. But this, however inveloped, means only that he was directed by an oracle: which oracle was properly of Egypt. For at Momemphis in that country was an oracular heifer, which had these marks and had the same divine honours, as the Apis and Mnevis in other places. The cow and heifer were held universally by the Egyptians in great reverence, as being sacred to 3 Isis. The rites of this goddess were about this time brought into * Greece; and were kept up particularly in Attica. In other places they became in great measure effaced: but among the Athenians her name was preserved, and they used to the last to swear by Isis. In short, the far greater part of the Grecian rites. and ceremonies was imported from Egypt.

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Λευκον σχημ ̓ ἑκάτερθε περίπλοκος αυτέ μηνης. Scholia in Aristop. Βατραχ. ν. 1256.

ITCEPETαl Inλsia Ces isga. Strab. 1. 17. p. 1155. Εντε τῷ Δελτα, και έξω αυτό, τοις μεν άλλην, τοις δε θήλεια (8) τρέφεται. Ibid.

At Memphis and Heliopolis. Ibid.

3 Herod. 1. 2. c. 40. p. 122, l. 3. c. 27.

p. 208.

4 According to Diodorus in the time of Erectheus. 1.1.

P. 25.

5 Diodor. 1. 1. p. 26. Thy Iosyofevusiv.

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Πανηγύρις δε αρα, και πομπας, και προσαγωγας πρωτοι ανθρώπων Αιγυπτιοι εισι δι ποιησαμενοι· και παρα τέτων Έλληνες μεμαθήκασι. Herod. 1. 2. c. 58. p. 131,

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