24 CHRONOLOGY.

CHRpuictE. 300 years older than the end of the Peloponnefian war, that is,705 years before Chrift.

701. Sabacon, after a reign of 50 years, relinquifh.es Egyptto his fon Sevechus, or Sethon, who becomes prieft of Vulcan,and negle£ts military affairs.

698. Manaffeh reigns.

697. The Corinthians begin firft of any men to build fhips\vith three orders of oars, called Triremes. Hitherto the Greeks.had ufed long veffels of fifty oars.

687. Tirhakah reigns in Egypt.

681. Afferhadon invades Babylon.

673. The Jews conquered by Afferhadon, and Manaffeh car-ried captive to Babylon.

671. Afferhadon invades Egypt. The government of Egyptcommitted to twelve princes.

668. The weftern nations of Syria, Phcenicia, and Egypt, re-volt from the Affyrians. Afferhadon dies, and is fucceeded by'Saofduchinus. Manaffeh returns from captivity.

658. Phraortes reigns in Media. The Prytanes reign in Co-rinth, expelling their kings.

657. The Corinthians overcome the Corcyreans at fea: andthis was the oldeft fea-fight.

655. Pfammiticus becomes king of ali Egypt, by conqueringthe other eleven kings, with whom he had already reigned fifteenyears : he reigned about 39 years more. Henceforward the lo-nians had accefs into Egypt; and thence came the Ionian philofo-phy, aftronomy, and geometry.

652. The firft Meflenian war begins: it lafted twenty years.

647. Charops, the firft decennial archon of the Athenians.Some of thefe archons might die before the end of the ten years,and the remainder of the ten years be fupplied by a new ar-chon. And hence the feven decennial archons might not takeup above forty or fifty years. Saofduchinus king of Affyria dies,and is fucceeded by Chyniiadon.

640. jofiah reigns in Judaea.

636. Phraortes, king of the Medes, is flain in a war againftthe Affyrians. Aftyages fucceds him.

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