Pausanias saith it had that name because Mars was first iudged there for killing Alirrho∣thion, Neptunes sonne, because hee had rauished Alcippa, Mars his daughter by Aglaura the daughter of Cecrops. And afterwards Orestes was iudged there for killing of his mother, and being quit, he built a Temple vnto Minerua Ar•…•…a, or Martiall. (d) 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 and Pagus] I doe not thinke Areopagus is deriued hence, as if it were some village without the towne, or streete in the Citty: but Pagus is some-times taken for a high place or stone, or promontory as Ste∣phanus calleth it. For Suidas saith it was called Ariopagus, because the Court was in a place aloft, vpon an high rock: and Arius, because of the flaughter which it decided, being all vnder Mars. Thus Suidas, who toucheth also at the iudgement of Mars for killing of Alirrhothion: out of Hellanicus lib. 1. As we did out of Pausanias: and this we may not ommit: there were siluer stones in that Court, wherein the plaintifs and the defendants both stood, the plaintifs was called the stone of Impudence, and the defendants, of Iniury. And hard by was a Tem∣ple of the furies. (e) Cranaus] Or Amphyction, as I sayd: but Eusebius saith Cecrops himselfe. But this computation I like not, nor that which hee referreth to the same. viz. That Cecrops who sailed into Euboea (whom the Greekes call the sonne of Erichtheus) ruled Athens long after the first Cecrops, and of him were the Athenians called Cranai, as Aristophanes called them. Strabo writeth that they were called Cranai also: but to the deluge, and Deucalion. Hee was the sonne of Prometheus and Oceana, as Dionysius saith, and hee married Pirrha the daughter of his vncle Epimetheus and Pandora, and chasing the Pelasgiues out of Thessaly, got that Kingdome: leading the borderers of Parnassus, the Leleges, and the Curetes along in his warres with him. And in his daies (as Aristotle saith) sell an huge deale of raine in Thes∣saly, which drowned it and almost all Greece. Deucalion and Pyrrha sauing themselues vpon Parnassus went to the Oracle of Themis, and learning there what to doe, restored man-kinde (as they fable) by casting stones ouer their shoulders back-ward: the stones that the man threw prouing men, and Pyrrhas throwes bringing forth women. Indeed they brought the stony and brutish people from the mountaines into the plaines, after the deluge and that gaue life to the fable.
In Deucalions time (saith Lucian in his Misanthropus) was such a ship-wrack in one instant, that all the vessells were sunke excepting one poore skiffe or cock-boate that was driuen to Lycorea. Lycorea is a village by Delphos named after King Licoreus. Now Parnassus (as Stephanus writeth) was first called Larnassus, of Deucalious 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, or couered boate, which he made him by the counsell of his father Prometheus, and which was driuen vnto this moun∣taine. Strabo saith that Deucalion dwelt in Cynos, a Citty in Locris neare vnto Sunnius Opun∣tius, where Pirrhas sepulchre is yet to bee seene, Deucalion being buried at Athens. Pausanias saith there was a Temple at Athens of Deucalions building and that hee had dwelt there. Yet Dion saith that the tombe is in the Temple of Iupiter Olympius, which he founded. (f) It came not] So saith Plato In Timaeo. and Diodor. Sicul. lib. 1.