After Ogygus, because of the great destruction caused by the flood, Attica remained without a king for 190 years, until the time of Cecrops.
The number of years is reckoned from the kings of the Argives, who began before Ogygus.
From the end of the reign of Phoroneus, king of the Argives, in whose time Ogygus' flood is said to have happened, until Phorbas, in whose time Cecrops became king of Attica, is a period of 190 years.
From Cecrops until the first Olympiad, there are counted seventeen kings, and twelve archons for life; in this time, the marvellous myths of the Greeks are said to have occurred.
The Greeks count the kings of Attica from [Cecrops], because they do not know for certain the dates of any earlier kings.
Castor explained this in the summary of this history, as follows.