42 CHRONOLOGY.
Chapter of Theras ( 2 ), the brother-in-law of Ariftoderaus, and tutor toMWan.1.3. bis fons Euryfthenes and Procles, as Paufanias a relates : and byc ' 3 - p. -285. C onfequence, from the return of the Heraclidae, which was inthe days of Theras, to the battle, which was in the fifth year ofthis war, there were lix (_ 3 ) generations; which y as I conceive,being for the moft part by the eldeft fons, will fcarce exceedthirty years to a generation ; and fo may amount unto 170 or180 years. That war lafted 19 or 20 years: add the laft 15years; and there will be about 190 years to the end of that war:whereas the followers of Timaeus make it about 379 years; whichis above lixty years to a generation.
X. By thefe arguments, chronologers have lengthened thetime, between the return of the Heraclidae into Peloponnefus andthe firft Meffenian war ; adding to it about 190 years: and theyhave alfo lengthened the time between that war and the rife ofthe Perlian empire. For in the race of the Spartan kings, de-' Ferod. 1.7.fcended from Euryfthenes, after Polydorus, reigned b thefe kings;c . 204. Eurycrates, Anaxander, Eurycratides, Leon, Anaxandrides, Cleo-menes, Leonidas, Lee ( I ). And in the other race defcended fromc Herod. 1.8. p r ocles, after Theopompus reigned c thefe ; Anaxandrides, Ar-C ’ ' 3 ’ chidamus, Anaxilaus, Leutychides, Hippocratides, Arifton, De-maratus, Leutychides II. &c. ( 2 ) according to Herodotus. Thefekings reigned till the lixth year of Xerxes, in which Leonidaswas flain by the Perflans at Thermopylae; and Leutychides II.
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( 2 ) The words of Paufanias are thefe : to /xta-ot Ut n%!t Evgv^tm, t« rx
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4, c. 7. Paufanias therefore fays, that this Euryleon was the fifth indefeent, not from Oiolycus.the fon, but from Atgeus, the grandion of Theras. Sir Ifaac Newton has been milled by theLatin trauflation.
( } ) Seven at leaft. But Sir Ifaac Newton’s conclufion will be littis affefted by this miftake.
§ X.
( T ) Paufan. lib. 3. c. 3 & 4.
( 2 ) This lift of the Proclidfe, taken from a corrupt palfage of Herodotus, is erroneous..The lucceffors of Theopompus were thefe ; Zeuxidamus, Anaxidamus, Archidamus, Agaficles,Arifto, Demaratus, Leotychides. Paufan. lib. 3. c. 7. and Meurfius De Regno LactcLemoniorum.,cap. 17.
( 3 ) Herodot. lib. 6. c. 72.
( 4 ) According to the true lift, only feven.
( s ) The battle of Thermopylas was in the firft year of the 7;th olympiad, at the very begin-ning of the year. (Diod. Sic. lib. 11. c. 1. Herodot. lib. 7. c. 206.) The interval, therefore,from the beginning of the olympiads to this battle was 74 complete olympiads; that is, 296years. But from the return of the Heraclidae to this battle, our author reckons 342. Thedifference is 46 years; the interval by which the return of the Heraclidae, by this reckoning,preceded th*-'beginning of the olympiads. But the olympiads began Ann. Per. Jul. 3938.
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