who were under the public Displeasure in Asia,Egypt, or the other barbarous Countries, came to Greece; and both pretended to, and obtained the Government of the chief Grecian Cities. Thus Danaus, being banished from Egypt, came and possessed Argos:Cadmus from Sidon wreigned over Thebes: The Carians were possessed of the Islands in the Archipelago; and Pelops the Son of Tantalus was Master of the whole Peloponnesus.’
SECTION IV.
P.50.(b)[[Author:Diodorus the Sicilian|DIodorus the Sicilian]], after having explained the natural Signification of the Allegory of Bacchus’s being the Son of Jupiter and Ceres; or of Wine’s being the Production of Earth and Moisture, adds these Words, which plainly shew the Nature and Tendency of the OrphicInstitutions:—‘Of the same Nature with these Allegories are the things which are shadow’d out in the Poems of Orpheus; and likewise the things which are signified in the religious Rites, (prescribed by the same Person:) But it is not lawful for those who are not initiated to enquire into the particular Meaning of every Rite.’
