50 G H R O N O L O G Y.

chapter from JEfcnlapius, and the nineteenth from Hercules by the mo-F,RST ' ther’s fide ( 3 ),: and becaufe thefe generations, being taken.noticebf by writers, were moft probably by the principal of the fami-ly, and fo for the moft part by the eldeft fonswe may reckonabout 28 or at the moft about 30 years to a generation. Andthus the feventeen intervals by the father’s fide r and eighteen bythe mothefs, will, at a middle reckoning, amount unto about507 years : which counted backwards from the beginning ofthe Peloponneftan war, at which time Hippocrates-began to ftou-rifh, will reach up to the 4jd year after the deatli of Solomon,and tliere place the Argonautie expeditiori ( 4 ),

XVII. When the Romans conquered the Carthaginians, thearchives of Carthage came into their handsi and thence Appian,in his hiftory of the Punic wars(‘), telis in round numbers thata Soiin. c. 30. Carthage ftood feven hundred years : and a Solinus adds the oddnumber of years in thefe words : " Adrymeto atque Carthagini“ author eft a lyro populus. Urbem iflam, ut Cato in Oratione“ Senatoria autumat , cum rex Hiarbas rerum in Libya, potiretur^" Elifa mulier extruxit,. domo Pbanix, &f Carthadam dixit ; quod" Ph conicum ore exprimit civitatem novam: mox fer mone verfo" Carthago di di a efi ; qua poft annos feplingentos triginta feptem" exciditur quam fuerat ex trucia A Eliffa was Dido-; and Car*thage was deftroyed in the confulfhip of Lentulus and Mummi-us, in the year of the Julian Period 4568 ( 2 ); from whencecount backwards 737 years, and the Encaenia or dedication ofthe city, will fall upon the i 6th year of Pygmalion, - the brother

of

(-') Iwwox^aln; yevw ft!» r,v Ka'05, lyo? H ^ccvChm^u xai (puitapelyr, fi? H zxxkict xai A-txI.v.tiov re ytiafct*a(p£gtijv' uQ « fjt .ev Etxoro;* cx-fp' H EivfaxailExal©*. SorailUS-' in ' Ult, Tlippoc . When Sir - IfaacNewton iays the i8th and iqth inclufively, I imagine his meaning is, including Hippocrates, butexclnding iEfculapius and Hercules.

(*) The Peloponnelian war began Ann. 2. Olymp. 87. or in the 34.6th olympic.year.. Countliack 507 years, and you come to the i6acl before the olympiads; which is about the jyth afterSolomon’s death. (See § X. note 4.)

§ XVII.

(’) P. 82. edit. H. Steph. ( 2 ) Eufeb. in Chron. ad Ann. 3. Olymp. 158.

(’’) Jofeph. contr. Ap. lib. 1. c. 18. p. 1341. edit. Hudfon. {*) i£n. I. lin. 623—626.

(■ ) The ejeflion of Cinyras is not exprefsly mentioned either by Virgil or Servius. But'Virgil makes Dido fay, that lier father held Cyprus by right of conqueft: and Servius adds,that he granted the ifland to Teucer: and the prince, that Dido’s father conquered, accordingto that chrotiology which makes Dido and her father contemporary with the Trojan war, couldbe no other than Cinyras, fince Cinyras was king of Cyprus when that war conimenced ; as ap-pears from the breaft-plate of Agamemnon ;

To»