embled was called _Phoronicum_, the city of
_Phoroneus__: and _Strabo_ [207] observes, _that _Homer_ calls all the
places which he reckons up in _Peloponnesus_, a few excepted, not cities
but regions, because each of them consisted of a convention of many_
[Greek: demoi], _free towns, out of which afterward noble cities were built
and frequented: so the _Argives_ composed _Mantinaea_ in _Arcadia_ out of
five towns, and _Tegea_ out of nine; and out of so many was _Heraea_ built
by _Cleombrotus_, or by _Cleonymus_: so also _AEgium_ was built out of seven
or eight towns, _Patrae_: out of seven, and _Dyme_ out of eight; and so
_Elis_ was erected by the conflux of many towns into one city._

_Pausanias_ [208] tells us, that the _Arcadians_ accounted _Pelasgus_ the
first man, and that he was their first King; and _taught the ignorant
people to built houses, for defending themselves from heat, and cold, and
rain; and to make them garments of skins; and instead of herbs and roots,
which were sometimes noxious, to eat the acorns of the beech tree_; and
that his son _Lycaon_ built the oldest city in all _Greece_: he tells us
also, that in the days of _Lelex_ the _Spartans_ lived in villages apart.
The _Greeks_ therefore began to build houses and villages in the days of
_Pelasgus_ the father of _Lycaon_, and in the days of _Lelex_ the father of
_Myles_, and by consequence about two or three Generations before the Flood
of _Deucalion_, and the coming of _Cadmus_; 'till then [209] they lived in
woods and caves of the earth. The first houses were of clay, 'till the
brothers _Euryalus_ and _Hyperbius_ taught them to harden the clay into
bricks, and to build therewith. In the days of _Ogyges_, _Pelasgus_,
_AEzeus_, _Inachus_ and _Lelex_, they began to build houses and villages of
clay, _Doxius_ the son of _Coelus_ teaching them to do it; and in the days
of _Lycaon_, _Phoroneus_, _AEgialeus_, _Phegeus_, _Eurotas_, _Myles_,
_Polycaon_, and _Cecrops_, and their sons, to assemble the villages into
[Greek: demoi], and the [Greek: demoi] into cities.

When _Oenotrus_ the son of _Lycaon_ carried a Colony into _Italy_, _he_
[210] _found that country for the most part uninhabited; and where it was
inhabited, peopled but thinly: and seizing a part of it, he built towns in
the mountains, little and numerous_, as above: these towns were without
walls; but after this Colony grew numerous, and began to want room, _they
expelled the _Siculi_, compasse