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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: However the prefent Accefiion of this Country to the Spartans Territory ferv'd to raife their Credit and Power; and they were not long pof- fefs'd of it, before they led their Army into Arcadia, and renew'd their old Difpute with the Argives. But nothing happen'd very remarkable in thefe private Quarrels with their Neighbours) and as for their publick Tranf- afbions with other States, they are to be re- ferr'd to the more intire Body of the Grecian Story. CHAP. IV. Kingdom and Ariftocracy of Corinth, to the intire Subverjion of the Regal Power. Containing the Space of about 900 Tears. COrinth, from a little obfcure Town call'd Corinth Efbyra, was rais'd into a Kingdom by Sifypbus about the 25OOth Year of the World. A. M This is he who is condemn'd by the Poets to 2500 the endlefs Labour of rolling a great Stone up a Hill, for having difcover'd one of Jupiter's Intrigues. To his Son Glaucus is generally Glaucu. afcrib'd the Inftitution of the Ijibmian Games. Glaucus was Father of Belliropboft, who having Bellero- kill'd a Man at Corinth, fled to Prttus King of Phon- Thoas. Derao- phon. Propodas Doridas thidas. Argot; whole Wife Stbenobeea falling in Love with him, and being repuls'd, accus'd him to her Husband of an intended Rape: Which Story is obferv'd to agree with that of Jofepb, and his Egyptian Miftrefs; as indeed many of the Fables of Antiquity, however they are wrefted and difguis'd by the Poets, feem to have been founded upon better Authority than is generally produc'd for them. Pretus, as he had hitherto protected him, would not violate the Laws of Hofpitality by killing him, but fent him t6 his Wife's Father then reigning in Lycia, to difpofe of him as he thought he de- ferv'd. He put him upon many difficult En- terprifes; wherein his mof...