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CHRONOLOGY.or 20th year of David’s reign ; that Sefoftris and the great Bac-chus, and by confequence alfo Ofiris, were one and the fameking of Egypt with Sefac, and came out of Egypt in the fifthyear of Rehoboam to invade the nations, and died 2Z.yea.rs afterSolomon ; that the Argonautic expedition was about 43 yearsafter the death of Solomon ; that Troy was taken about 76 or78 years after the death of Solomon ; that the Phcenicians ofTyre were driven from the Red Sea by the Edomites, about 87years after the death of Solomon, and within two or three yearsbegan to make long voyages upon the Mediterranean, failing toSpain, and beyond, under a commander whoin, for his induftry,condudt, and difcoveries, they honoured with the names of Mel-cartus and Hercules; that the retura of the Heraclides into Pe-loponnesus was about 158 years after the death of Solomon;that Lycurgus the legillator reigned at Sparta, and gave thethree difcs to the olympic treafury, an. 1. olymp. 18. or 273years after the death of Solomon, the £>uinquertium being atthat time added to the olympic games; that the Greeks beganfoon after to build Triremes, and to fend colonies into Sicily andItaly, which gave the nameof Gratia magna to thofe countries;that the firft Meflenian war ended about 350 years after the deathof Solomon, an. 1. olymp. 37; that Phidon was contemporaryto Solon, and prelided in the olympic games in the 49th olym-piad, that is, 397 years after the death of Solomon; that Dracowas archon, and made his laws, an. 1. olymp. 52; and Solon,an. 3. olymp. 54; and that Solon vifited Crcefus an. 3. olymp.37. or 433 years after the death of Solomon; and Sardes wastaken by Cyrus 438 years, and Babylon by Cyrus 443 years,and Ecbatane by Cyrus 445 years after the death of Solomon :and thefe periods being fettled, they become a foundation forbuilding the chronology of the antient times upon them; andnothing more remains for fettling fuch a chronology, than tomake thefe periods a little exa£ter, if it can be, and to fhew

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( 3 ) The archons forlife were 13, of whom Medon was the firft, and Alcmion the laft. SeeEafeb. Exc. Or. p. 134 and 131, and Meurfins de Archont. Athenienfi, lib. 1. c. 1.

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