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Dardanus, the son of Ilus of the Phrygians, but of the Hellenes and of Hellas, Abas reigned for 23 years. Proetus after him for 17 years. His wife Stheneboea, also called Anteia, was in love with Bellerophon, whom Proetus had found cast upon the ground and had raised and deemed worthy of honor, having him as a companion at his table, Anteia, being madly in love with him, and having often sent procurers, and having been rejected because of the young man's virtue and his loyalty to his benefactor, she slandered him to her husband Proetus. He said that it was not 1.213 lawful to plot against the life of one who had shared in common salt; "but I will write to your father Iobates and send him away, with whom he has never eaten bread, and he will kill him." So having written and sealed the letter with the royal seal, he sends him away. And he went away suspecting no evil. So he found him at breakfast, and as he had been sent by his son-in-law, he made him a companion at his table. But after this, having read the letter, he was not ready to kill him because of the law of hospitality, but also having learned from much evidence that the matter was a slander, he spared him. Thus virtue knows how to redeem its possessor from evils. After Proetus, the second Acrisius reigned for 31 years. After him, Pelops for 32 years, who also founded a city and named it Peloponnese; from whom the Hellenes are also called Peloponnesians. At that time also Democritus was known as a philosopher, who taught, among other things, that one who wishes to philosophize must abstain from all evils, practice self-control, and understand and do all things rightly, and in this way it is possible to learn the nine-letter word; and thus, he says, you will see the son of God, the Logos, the impassible one, newly manifest as passible. At the same time flourished Hippocrates, philosophizing and practicing medicine in the best way. He had a brother named Sosander who practiced veterinary medicine for horses, and at the same time the art for all 1.214 animals; to whom they say Hippocrates said, "Either change your name or change your art." After Pelops, Atreus reigned for 20 years, then Thyestes for 12 years, after whom Agamemnon for 18 years, then Aegisthus for 7 years. The kingdom of the Hellenes, or Peloponnesians, therefore lasted for one hundred and sixty-four years. In the times before those mentioned, Minos of Crete, the son of Europa, reigned, and being master of the sea he warred against the Athenians and set forth laws. At that time also Daedalus and Icarus and Taurus were talked of on account of Pasiphae, the wife of Minos. Having committed adultery with Taurus, who was her secretary, she bore a son, who was called the Minotaur. But Pasiphae, having been shut up by Minos in a chamber with two slave girls, died of a disease. And Icarus, having escaped from the prison, was drowned as he was sailing. And Daedalus was slain. And Heracles himself, much famed for his labors, after his return from Colchis with the Argonauts, being in Libya and having encountered Antaeus, who was performing certain demonic and abominable rites, and having defeated him, fell into a pestilential disease, and went mad and threw himself into a fire and died. After Minos, the Minotaur, son of Pasiphae and Taurus, reigns. But the senators, considering it an outrage to be ruled by one born of adultery, 1.215 urged Theseus, the son of Aegeus, king of Thessaly, to cross over for war against him. They promised him to betray both the Minotaur himself and Ariadne, the daughter of Minos and Pasiphae, and all of Crete. So Theseus crosses over suddenly to Crete. So the general and all the rest, having abandoned the Minotaur in Gortyna, made a pretense of flight. But he, realizing the betrayal, flees to the land of the Labyrinths, and hides concealed in a cave, until he was revealed to Theseus by someone and was slain. And Theseus, entering Gortyna, celebrated a triumph. But Aegeus, his father, having heard of the flight of the Cretans, and supposing that Theseus had perished by treachery, being consumed by grief, threw himself into the sea and was drowned; whence also the Aegean Sea was named. But Theseus, having left Crete, and having scorned Ariadne as well, who in the temple of Zeus

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