Longimanus, reigns 41 years. Democritus born, and soon after, Hypocrates. (n) I m. 1 d. Ezra being appointed to restore the religious state of Judea, sets out from Babylon. V m. 1 d. he arrives at Jerusalem. IX m. Chislieu, Nehemiah in- I m. Nisan, he is appointed to Plato born, and lives 80 years. Nothus reigns 19 years. m Usher. 1 Dr. Prideaux. n Diogenes Laertius. • By comparing the two last articles it seems that Artaxerxes began his reign between Nisan and Chislieu in the year of the world 3540. p His only lawful son Xerxes succeeded, but was quickly killed and succeeded by his brother Sogdian, and he by his brother Nothus; but as the two former reigned but eight months, and had no Egyptian new year day included, the Canon therefore leaves them both out. At the battle of Cunaxa, Ctesias taken captive, and Xenophon retreats to Greece. (m) Aristotle born, and lives 63 years. (m) Demosthenes born, and lives 59 years. (k) Mnemon dies, aged 94. And Artaxerxes, reigns 21 years. Epicurus born, and lives 72 Ochus poisoned. And his young- Codomannus, great-grandson He founds Alexandria in Egypt III. GRECIAN MONARCHS. June 28, Darius killed by his May 22, Alexander dies. And his bastard brother Arideus, reigns 7 years. He is killed. And Alexander's son Ægus, by Roxana, reigns. (u) September 6, (s) Seleucus seizes Babylon, and reigns. (v) q Though he had three sons by his queen, and 115 sons by concubines. Strauchius. s Alsted. t Strauchius says it began at the Summer Solstice; and Alsted, on June 28. u The Canon makes it twelve years from the beginning of his reign to the beginning of the reign of Ptolemy Lagus over Egypt. Whence the era of the Seleucides begins with the Eastern nations; except the Chaldeans who begin it in the following spring, and the first book of Maccabees in the spring before. (Alsted.) years. (km) The Parthians under Asaces, P. Scipio born, and lives 52 Cato the Censor born, and lives Euergetes dies. And his son Syracuse taken, and Archime- Polybius born, and lives 82 Philopator dies. And his son Antiochus the Great, king of Sy ria, seizes Palestine. P. Scipio overthrows Hannibal in Africa. L. Scipio beats Antiochus the Great, and forces him to quit the Lesser Asia. P Scipio Africanus dies, aged 52. (k) Hannibal drinks poison and dies, aged 70. (km) w The following six years being times of great confusion, through the strife of Alexander's generals for the several parts of the empire, till Ptolemy Lagus comes to be settled king of Egypt; the Canon therefore adds the said six years also to Ægus. x Cary. y Dr. Prideaux. Epiphanes killed by poison. And his son Reigns 35 years. His army cruelly destroys the Hipparchus begins his Celestial Cato the elder dies, aged 85. Philometor, wounded in battle, dies. And his son is killed by Philometor's brother, viz. Called Physcon, who reigned 29 years. Sept. 28, Hipparchus begins his period of 304 years. (k x) Euergetes dies. And his son called Lathurus, reigns 36 years. (a) Cicero born, and lives 64 years. (km) Pompey the Great born, and lives 58 years (km) Julius Cæsar born, and lives 56 years. (km) Soter dies. b And his bastard son Herod the Great born, and lives Pompey puts an end to the z From him succeeds a race of princes ruling in Judea, till the Roman Senate gave the kingdom from king Antigonus to Herod, an Idumæan. a The former part of his reign his mother governed. b Cicero and Suetonius say, that Soter's only legitimate offspring Bernice immediately succeeded him and married her cousin Alexander, who quickly killing her, reigned 15 years; and then the Egyptians expelling him, raised Auletes to the throne; but Appian says that Alexander reigned but 19 days after he killed his queen; and then the Egyptians killing him, Auletes succeeded; (m) and the Canon follows Appian. of Syria, and makes the kingdom a Roman province. Octavius born, and lives 76 years. (km) (c) December 28, Pompey takes Jerusalem. (k m) Livy born, and lives 76 years. August 26, Julius Cæsar first He is slain in battle by the Par- Dionysius Neos dies. (d) And Cæsar passes the Rubicon and Cato the younger kills himself March 15, Cæsar killed in the c He was Julius Cæsar's sister's grandson by her daughter Attia. h Helvicus i Isaacson. ha Dr. Halley in Philosoph. Transac. d He had two legitimate sons; but by Julius Cæsar's favor Cleopatra is preferred before them. e In order to which, by the direction of Sosigenes he makes this year to consist of 445 days, (Lydiat, Petavius, Usher, Strauchius, Prideaux, &c.) f Danet says, at the new moon, eight days after; and Carey says, on the day the sun entered 8th of Capricorn, which by the ancients was held to be the point of the Winter Solstice; and at seven in the afternoon that day, there happened a new moon at Rome. g These years are called Julian from Julius Cæsar who appointed them; they contain 365 days six hours; which six hours in four years make one day, and added in February every fourth year, makes that year to consist of 366 days, and is called a leap year; but through mistake, the Romans made every third year a leap year for the first 36 years of this era; and then Augustus reduced them into order. (Lydiat, Calvisius, Petavius, Usher, Prideaux.) 4 |