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 CLOSING EVENTS OF LEGENDARY GKEECK. 29 There were Dorians in Krete in the time of the Octyssey: Homer mentions different languages and different races of men, Eteokretes, Kydones, Dorians, Achosans, and Pelasgians, as all coexisting ia the island, which he describes to be populous, and to contain ninety cities. A legend given by Andron, based seem- ingly upon the statement of Herodotus, that Dorus the son of Hellen had settled in Histiseotis, ascribed the first introduction of the three last races to Tektaphus son of Dorus, who had led forth from that country a colony of Dorians, Achjeans, and Pelasgians, and had landed in Krete during the reign of the indigenous king Kres. 1 This story of Andron so exactly fits on to the Homeric Catalogue of Kretan inhabitants, that we may reasonably pre- sume it to have been designedly arranged with reference to that Catalogue, so as to afford some plausible account, consistently with the received legendary chronology, how there came to be Dorians in Krete before the Trojan war, the Dorian colonies after the return of the Herakleids being of course long posterior in supposed order of time. To find a leader sufficiently early for his hypothesis, Andron ascends to the primitive Eponymus Do- rus, to whose son Tektaphus he ascribes the introduction of a mixed colony of Dorians, Achasans, and Pelasgians into Krete : these are the exact three races enumerated in the Odyssey, and the king Kres, Avhom Andron affirms to have been then reigning in the island, represents the Eteokretes and Kydones in the list of Homer. The story seems to have found favor among native Kretan historians, as it doubtless serves to obviate what 1 Steph. Byz. v. Aupfov. Hsji &v iaropel "Avdpuv, Kp??rdf F.V ry vr/atj} @aai2t,EvovTOf, Te/c ratyov rbv Aupov rov "EA/ljy vof, bpfj.rjaa.vTa SK rris ev 0erraAI(i Tore /J.EV Aopidof, vvv de 'lanaiiJTidof KaAov/nevTif, uQiKeadai elf Kp^rj?i> ^erd bupieuv re KOI 'A^ajwv /cat ne/latryaiv, TUV OVK inrapuvTuv eJf Tvpfirjviav. Conpare Strabo, x. pp. 475-476, from which it is plain that the story was adduced by Andron with a special explanatory reference to the passage in the Odyssey (xv. 175.J The age of Anclron, one of the authors of Atthides, is not precisely ascer- tainable, but he can hardly be put earlier than 300 B. c. ; see the preliminary Dissertation of C. Mailer to the Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum, ed. Didot, p. Ixxxii ; and the Prolusio de Atthidum Scriptoribus, prefixed to Lenz's edition of the Fragments of Phanodcmus and Pemon, p. xxviii. Lip* 1812.