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vernal equinox; and in memory thereof erefted this monument. Chronicae.Now this year being carried into Chaldaea, the Chaldaeans begantheir year of Nabonaffar on the fame Thoth with the Egyptians,and made it of the fame length. And the Thoth of the firftyear of Nabonaffar feli upon the 26th day of February: whichwas 33 days and five hours before the vernal equinox, according *
to the fun’s mean motion. And the Thoth of this year movesbackwards 33 days and five hours in 137 years ; and thereforefeli upon the vernal equinox 137 years before the aera of Nabo-naffar began ; that is, 884 years before Chrift. And if it be-gan upon the day next after the vernal equinox, it might beginthree or four years earlier ; and there we may place the death ofthis king. The Greeks feigned that he was the fon of Titho-nus ; and therefore he was born after the return of Sefac intoEgypt with Tithonus and other captives; and fo might be about70 or 7 5 years old at his death,
883. Dido builds Carthage; and the Phoenicians begin pre-fently after to fail as far as to the Straights Mouth, and beyomk./Eneas was ffill ali ve, according to VirgiL
870. Hefiod' flourifhes. He hath told us himfelf, that helived in the age next after the wars of Thebes and Troy ; andthat this age fhould end, when the men then living grew hoar)%and dropt into the grave ; and therefore it was but of an ordi-nary length : and Herodotus has told us, that Hefiod and Homerwere about 400 years older than himfelf. Whence it followsjthat the deftruclion of Troy was not older, than we have repre-fented it.
860. Meeris reigns in Egypt. He adorned Memphis, andtranflated the feat of his em pire thitber from Thebes. There hebuilt the famous labyrinth, and the northern portico of thetemple of Vulcan; and dug the great lake called the lake of Moe-ris ; and upon the bottom of it built two great pyramids of brick :andthefe things being not mentioned by Homer or Hefiod, wereunknown to them,, and done after their days. Moeris wrote alioa book. of geometry.
852. Hazael, the fucceffor of Hadad at Damafcus, dies; andis deified, as was Hadad before : and thefe gods, together with5 Arathes