But the main point must be made plain with all accuracy: that Moses is older not only than Homer, but also than the writers before him—Linus, Philammon, Thamyris, Amphion, Musaeus, Orpheus, Demodocus, Phemius, the Sibyl, Epimenides the Cretan (who came to Sparta), Aristeas of Proconnesus (who wrote the Arimaspia), Asbolus the Centaur, and Isatis, and Drymon, and Euclus the Cyprian, and Horus the Samian, and Pronapides the Athenian. For Linus is the teacher of Heracles, and Heracles has been shown to be one generation earlier than the Trojan events; and this is evident from his son Tlepolemus, who campaigned against Ilium. And Orpheus lived at the same time as Heracles; and moreover they say that the works attributed to him were composed by Onomacritus the Athenian, who lived in the time of the rule of the Pisistratids, around the fiftieth Olympiad. And of Orpheus, Musaeus was a disciple. Amphion, being two generations earlier than the Trojan events, restrains us from composing more for the lovers of learning. And Demodocus and Phemius lived at the time of the very Trojan war; for the one passed his time among the suitors, the other among the Phaeacians. And Thamyris and Philammon are not much more ancient than these. Now concerning the treatment of each discourse, and the times and the record of these men, I think we have written for you exceedingly accurately. But that we may fill up what is still lacking up to now, I will make the demonstration also concerning the so-called wise men. For Minos, who was thought to excel all in wisdom and shrewdness and legislation, lived in the time of Lynceus, who reigned after Danaus, in the eleventh generation after Inachus. And Lycurgus, born long after the capture of Ilium, legislated for the Lacedaemonians a hundred years before the Olympiads. And Draco is found to have lived around the thirty-ninth Olympiad; Solon around the forty-sixth; Pythagoras around the sixty-second. And we have demonstrated that the Olympiads came about four hundred and seven years after the Trojan events. And these things being thus demonstrated, I will also briefly record concerning the age of the seven wise men. For since the most ancient of the aforesaid, Thales, lived around the fiftieth Olympiad, the matters concerning those after him have been stated to you concisely.