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chus, at Sais; Anyfis or Amofis, at Anyfis or Hanes; and Ta- Chrokicxi.cellotis, at Bubafte.

77 6; Iphitus reftores the Olympiads. And from this aera theolympiads are now reckoned. Gnephadlus reigns at Memphis,

772. Necepfos and Pelofiris invent aftrology in Egypt.

760; Semiramis begins to flourifti. Sanchoniatho writes.

7z i. Sabacon, the Ethiopian, invades Egypt, now divided in-*to various kingdoms; burns Bocchoris; flaysNechus; and makesAnyfis fly.

747- Eui, kingof Affyria, dies; and is fucceeded at Ninevehby Tiglathpilaffer, and at Babylon by Nabonafiar. The Egyp-tians, who fled from Sabacony earry their afirology and aftrono-my to Babylon, and found the aera of Nabonafiar in Egyptianyears.

740. Tiglathpilaffer, king of Affyria, takes Damafcus, and icaptivates the Syiians.

729. Tiglathpilaffer is fucceeded by Salmanaffer.

721. Salmanaffer, king of Affyria,. carries the ten tribes inta-capti vity.

719. Sennacherib-reigns~ over Affyria. Archias, the fon of,Evagetus, of the ftock of Hercules, leads a colony from Corinthinto Sicily, and builds Syracufe.

717. Tirhakah reigns in Ethiopia.

714. Sennacherib is put to flight by the Ethiopians andEgyp-tians, with great flaughter.

711. The Medes revolt from the Affyrians. Sennacherib*fiain. Afferhadon fucceeds him : that is, that Afferhadon-Pul r ,or Sardanapalus, the fon of Anacyndaraxis, or Sennacherib, whobuilt Tarfus and Anchiale in one day.

710. Lycurgus brings the poems of Homer out of Afia into-Greece.

708. Lycurgus becomes tutor to Charillus, or Charilaus, theyoung king of Sparta. Ariftotle makes Lycurgus as old as Iphi-tus, becaule his name was upon the olympic difc. But the dilcwas one of the fi ve games called the Quinquertium, and the.Quinquertium was firft inftituted upon the eighteenth olympiad.

Socrates and Thucydides made the kiftitutions of Lycurgus about