A flood which overran a-part of Greece while Ogyges was king
of Attica. There were two floods so called- one in Boeotia, when the
lake Copais overflowed its banks; and another in Attica, when the whole
territory was laid waste for two hundred years (B.C. 1764).
Varro tells us that the planet Venus underwent a great change in the
reign of Ogyges (3 syl.). It changed its diameter, its colour, its
figure, and its course.
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