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Tyndareus himself to Menelaus in marriage, the king of the Argives, foster-brother of Agamemnon, as Palaephatus the most wise wrote, that in vain the poets narrate poetically saying that Zeus became a swan and shamed Leda. And of the country of the Phrygians in the times of Samson, Dardanus reigned, son of Ilus. And in these times, someone named Abas reigned over the Hellenes, that is, of Hellas, for 23 years. and after him Proetus reigned for 17 years. His wife Stheneboea, also called Anteia, loved Bellerophon; and she sent some people to him, and he was not persuaded, saying that king Proetus found me of low birth before his reign and raised me and deemed me worthy of the honor of a son, to dine with him; and shall I do such a thing against him? It is not the custom for Hellenes. And Stheneboea, hearing this, and reasoning lest he, having the confidence of a son with him, should tell him that she sent people to him as one who loved him, secretly told her own husband that Bellerophon loves me and comes upon me, and I fear lest he give me a potion and I die while preserving my chastity for you, as one loving her husband. and Proetus says 84 to her, It is a custom for Hellenes not to do evil to one who dines with them. But I am sending him to your own father Iobates, with whom he has never eaten, writing to him to kill him as a conspirator against my kingdom and you yourself. And having done so, he gave him letters, having sealed them with a royal seal. And Bellerophon, having taken the letters, not knowing the plot against him, went to king Iobates, and found him at breakfast. And Iobates, learning that he had come, called him, and as one loved by Proetus, his son-in-law, he ordered him to dine with him as a son. And having received the letters and read what was written to him, and Iobates, knowing that he had eaten with him, said to himself that this man is rather being accused; for if he were conscious of evil, justice would not have made him eat with me, because it is a custom for Hellenes not to do evil to one who dines with them. and he wrote the same things to his own son-in-law and the rest, as Euripides the tragic poet wrote, completing the drama. And after the reign of Proetus the second Acrisius reigned for 31 years, and then after the victory against Oenomaus Pelops reigned for 32 years, from whom the Hellenes were also called Peloponnesians. And he also founded a city, which he also called Pelopon 85 nesus; from then on the kingdom of Hellas was also called Peloponnesian. And in these times was Democritus, teaching philosophical matters; who also in his philosophical writing set forth these things: that it is necessary for one wanting to become a philosopher to practice moderation, to abstain from all evils, and to think and do all things rightly, and when he philosophizes thus, then he will learn the nine-letter name and will see the son, the impassible word of God, who is about to appear as passible. and these things are reported in the writing of Theophilus the most wise chronographer. And in the same times Hippocrates was philosophizing, setting forth medical philosophy. And after the reign of Pelops Atreus reigned for 20 years, and after him Thyestes for 16 years, and after him Agamemnon for 18 years, and after him Aegisthus reigned for 7 years. Therefore the kingdom of the Hellenes, that is, of the Peloponnesians, lasted for 164 years. And in the aforementioned times above, Minos first reigned over Crete, the son of Europa; who also ruled the sea, having made war on the Athenians, and he established laws; concerning whom, he says, Plato the most wise made mention in his commentaries on the laws. in which times were Daedalus and Icarus, 86 being famed on account of Pasiphae, wife of king Minos, and of Taurus her notary; from whom she bore

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αὐτὸς Τυνδάριος εἰς γάμον Μενελάῳ, τῷ βασιλεῖ τῶν Ἀργείων, συντρόφῳ τοῦ Ἀγαμέμνονος, καθὼς Παλαίφατος ὁ σοφώτατος συνεγράψατο, ὅτι μάτην οἱ ποιηταὶ ἱστοροῦσι ποιητικῶς λέγοντες ὅτι ὁ Ζεὺς γέγονε κύκνος καὶ Λήδαν ᾔσχυνε. Τῆς δὲ τῶν Φρυγῶν χώρας ἐπὶ τῶν χρόνων τοῦ Σαμψὼν ἐβασίλευσε ∆άρδανος, υἱὸς Ἰλίου. Ἐν αὐτοῖς δὲ τοῖς χρόνοις ἐβασίλευσε τῶν Ἑλλήνων, τοῦτ' ἐστὶ τῆς Ἑλλάδος, τὶς ὀνόματι Ἄβας ἔτη κγʹ. καὶ μετ' αὐτὸν ἐβασίλευσεν ὁ Προῖτος ἔτη ιζʹ. τούτου ἡ γυνὴ ἡ Σθενέβοια, ἡ καὶ Ἄντεια, ἐφίλησε τὸν Βελλεροφόντην· καὶ προσέπεμψεν αὐτῷ τινας, καὶ οὐκ ἐπείσθη, λέγων ὅτι χαμεύρετόν με εὗρεν ὁ βασιλεὺς Προῖτος πρὸ τῆς βασιλείας αὐτοῦ καὶ ἀνεθρέψατο καὶ τιμῆς με ἠξίωσεν υἱοῦ συνεσθίειν αὐτῷ· καὶ πράξω τι τοιοῦτον κατ' αὐτοῦ; οὐκ ἔστι νόμος Ἕλλησι. καὶ τοῦτο ἀκούσασα ἡ Σθενέβοια, λογισαμένη μήποτε, ὡς ἔχων παῤῥησίαν υἱοῦ πρὸς αὐτόν, εἴπῃ αὐτῷ ὅτι προσέπεμψεν αὐτῷ τινας ὡς ἐρῶσα αὐτοῦ, λάθρᾳ εἶπε τῷ ἰδίῳ ἀνδρὶ ὅτι ἐρᾷ μου ὁ Βελλεροφόντης καὶ ἐπέρχεταί μοι, καὶ μὴ φάρμακόν μοι δώσει καὶ θάνω φυλάττουσά σοι σωφροσύνην, ὡς ἀνδρὸς ἐρῶσα, φοβοῦμαι. καὶ λέγει 84 αὐτῇ ὁ Προῖτος, Νόμος ἐστὶν Ἕλλησι μὴ ποιεῖν κακῶς τῷ συνεσθίοντι. ἀλλὰ πέμπω αὐτὸν πρὸς τὸν ἴδιόν σου πατέρα Ἰοβάτην, μεθ' οὗ οὐδέποτε ἔφαγε, γράφων αὐτῷ φονεῦσαι αὐτὸν ὡς ἐπίβουλον τῆς ἐμῆς βασιλείας καὶ σοῦ αὐτῆς. ὁ δὲ ποιήσας οὕτως ἔδωκεν αὐτῷ γράμματα, σφραγίσας αὐτὰ βασιλικῇ σφραγῖδι. καὶ λαβὼν τὰ γράμματα ὁ Βελλεροφόντης, ἀγνοῶν τὴν κατασκευὴν τὴν κατ' αὐτοῦ ἀπῆλθε πρὸς τὸν Ἰοβάτην βασιλέα, καὶ εὗρεν αὐτὸν ἐν τῷ ἀρίστῳ. καὶ μαθὼν ὁ Ἰοβάτης ὅτι ἦλθεν, ἐκάλεσεν αὐτόν, καὶ ὡς φιλούμενον παρὰ τοῦ Προίτου, γαμβροῦ αὐτοῦ, ὡς υἱὸν ἐκέλευσε συνεσθίειν αὐτῷ. καὶ δεξάμενος τὰ γράμματα καὶ ἀναγνοὺς τὰ γραφέντα αὐτῷ, καὶ εἰδὼς ὁ Ἰοβάτης ὅτι συνέφαγεν αὐτῷ εἶπε καθ' ἑαυτὸν ὅτι μᾶλλον κατηγορεῖται οὗτος· εἰ γὰρ συνῄδει κακῷ, οὐκ ἂν ἡ δίκη ἐποίησεν αὐτὸν φαγεῖν μετ' ἐμοῦ, ὅτι νόμος ἐστὶν Ἕλλησι τῷ συνεσθίοντι μὴ ποιεῖν κακῶς. καὶ τὰ αὐτὰ ἔγραψε τῷ ἰδίῳ γαμβρῷ καὶ τὰ λοιπά, καθὼς συνεγράψατο Εὐριπίδης ὁ τραγικὸς ποιητής, πληρώσας τὸ δρᾶμα. Μετὰ δὲ τὴν βασιλείαν τοῦ Προίτου ἐβασίλευσεν ὁ δεύτερος Ἀκρίσιος ἔτη λαʹ, καὶ λοιπὸν μετὰ τὴν νίκην τὴν κατὰ Οἰνομάου ἐβασίλευσεν ὁ Πέλοψ ἔτη λβʹ, ἐξ οὗ καὶ Πελοποννήσιοι ἐκλήθησαν οἱ Ἑλλαδικοί. ἔκτισε δὲ καὶ πόλιν, ἥντινα καὶ Πελοπόν 85 νησον ἐκάλεσεν· ἔκτοτε καὶ Πελοποννήσιον ἐκλήθη τὸ βασίλειον Ἑλλάδος. Ἐν αὐτοῖς δὲ τοῖς χρόνοις ἦν ὁ ∆ημόκριτος, φιλοσοφούμενα διδάσκων· ὅστις καὶ ἐν τῇ φιλοσόφῳ αὐτοῦ συγγραφῇ ἐξέθετο ταῦτα ὅτι δεῖ τὸν θέλοντα φιλόσοφον γενέσθαι ἀσκεῖν σωφρονεῖν, πάντων ἀπέχεσθαι κακῶν, πάντα δὲ ὀρθῶς νοεῖν καὶ πράττειν, καὶ ὅτε οὕτως φιλοσοφήσει, τότε μαθήσεται τὸ ἐννάγραμμον ὄνομα καὶ ὄψεται τὸν υἱὸν τὸν θεοῦ λόγον τὸν ἀπαθῆ, παθητὸν μελλοφανῆ. φέρεται δὲ ταῦτα εἰς τὸ σύγγραμμα Θεοφίλου τοῦ σοφωτάτου χρονογράφου. Ἐν δὲ τοῖς αὐτοῖς χρόνοις ἐφιλοσόφει Ἱπποκράτης, ἰατρικὴν φιλοσοφίαν ἐκτιθέμενος. Μετὰ δὲ τὴν βασιλείαν Πέλοπος ἐβασίλευσεν ὁ Ἀτρεὺς ἔτη κʹ, καὶ μετ' αὐτὸν ὁ Θυέστης ἔτη ιςʹ, καὶ μετ' αὐτὸν ὁ Ἀγαμέμνων ἔτη ιηʹ, καὶ μετ' αὐτὸν ἐβασίλευσεν ὁ Αἴγισθος ἔτη ζʹ. κατέσχεν οὖν ἡ βασιλεία τῶν Ἑλλήνων, ἤτοι Πελοποννησίων, ἔτη ρξδʹ. Ἐν δὲ τοῖς προειρημένοις ἀνωτέρω χρόνοις τῆς Κρήτης ἐβασίλευσε πρῶτος ὁ Μίνωος, ὁ υἱὸς τῆς Εὐρώπης· ὅστις καὶ ἐθαλασσοκράτει πολεμήσας Ἀθηναίοις καὶ νόμους ἐτίθη· περὶ οὗ, φησί, Πλάτων ὁ σοφώτατος ἐν τοῖς περὶ νόμων ὑπομνήμασιν ἐμνημόνευσεν. ἐν οἷς χρόνοις ἦσαν ὁ ∆αίδαλος καὶ ὁ Ἴκαρος, 86 θρυλούμενοι ἕνεκεν τῆς Πασιφάης, γυναικὸς τοῦ Μίνωος βασιλέως καὶ τοῦ Ταύρου τοῦ νοταρίου αὐτῆς· ἐξ οὗ ἔτεκε