Author: Sanchuniathon

Publisher: Theclassics.Us

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 9781230359670

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1720 edition. Excerpt: ... posterity; who treading in the steps of their degenerate Parents, reinforc'd Idolatry, after the Flood had wasli'd it away for a time. This I observe only in passing, to make it clear that Sanchoniatho was so far from writing from informations agreeing with Moses, that he openly owns other, and opposite teachers, and accordingly writes little or nothing but what is design'd to serve the religion that Moses oppos'd. REMARK VII. Of Japhet's line. The beginning of the peopling Attica. Of the Pelafgi, and of the Sicyonian Kings. Worship of Reliques. Meno his time determ'm'dinVlmy from Anticlides. 1Must not neglect to observe, that besides Cronus and his children, on whom our author insists largely, he doth briefly mention another line, as concern'd in Ouranus's affairs, 32. /. 1. beginning with rimg. In this line, which he affirms not to be fee deriv'd from Cronus DEGREES but to be contemporary with him, he intimates Nereus to be the first, from him descends Tontus, with whom Typhon is join'd; from Tontus descends Tosidon, whom the Latins call Neptune, and a famous woman for songs call'd Sidon. Here I find less light to guide me than in other parts of this history, which I bear the more patiently, because no considerable part of the history is obscur'd by this dark passage. Nevertheless > because I believ'd our author more than Hefiod and Afollodorus, Greek writers of those times, who yet agree, that these deities belonging to the sea are in the fame line, but make Tontus the father of Nereus: I shall take Nereus for the first of this line, and at least conjecture who he is. Wherefore* since he and his race are put to be contemporary to Ham and his issue, and we have also found Shem under the name Sydyc, it remains that we take Japhet with