CHRONOLOGY.

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A.M. B.C.

3631 323 The Rhodians revolt from Macedonia, drive out all

the Macedonian garrisons, and become a freepeople.

36S2 322 Demosthenes poisoned himself.

The Lucanians are drawn, by a stratagem, to declarefor the Samnites agalmt Rome.

3683 321 Perdiccas reigned over Macedonia six years.

The Vestini defeated by the Romans under D. Ju-nius Brutus the consul.

Death of Aristotle.

Fergus, the Scotch king, conquers a part of Ireland.The Samnites defeated by the Romans with theloss of 20,000 men.

3685 319 The Samnites being joined by the Apulians declare

war against the Romans; but are obliged to sub-mit, in the following year, to the consuls.Polyperchon publishes a general liberty to all theGreek cities.

3687 317 Jerusalem being besieged bv the Egyptians, through

a fear of breaking the sabbath-day the Jews sufferthe city to be taken by storm on that day with-out resistance, and 100,000 of their people arecarried into Egypt captive.

36S9 315 Cassander, king ot Macedonia, reigned 19 years.

3690 314 Agathocles usurps the tyranny of Sicily for 29 years.

3692 312 Antigonus conquers Eumenes who is delivered to

him by his army.

3693 311 Sora taken by stratagem.

Antigonus sends Athena'us his general to seizePetra, a chief city of the Arabs, while the menwere gone to a fair, from whence he carries awaya prodigious booty', and 5000 talents in ready'money. The Arabs being informed of it, pursue,surround, and cut oif, all Atheimis’s army', andrecover the booty.

3694 310 Seleucus conquers Babylon ; hence begins the a;ra of

the Seleucida’.

3695 309 A peace is concluded between Antigonus and Ptolemy ;

wherein it was agreed that Cassander should holdMacedonia, I.ysimachus Thrace, Ptolemy Egypt,and Antigonus Asia; and that all the Greekcities should be free.

3697 307 Cleopatra, the sister of Alexander the Great, put to

death by order of Antigonus king of Asia, for herendeavouring to escape from the conlinement hehad put her under.

3699 305 Damocles, the most beautiful youth in all Greece,

jumps into a very large cauldron of boiling water,and w as drowned, to avoid the unnatural lust ofDemetrius.

The Umbrians submit to the Roman yoke.

Ptolemy, king of Egypt, conquered’ by Demetrius,the son of Antigonus, at Cyprus.

3701 303 The Samnites defeated by Martins and P. Cornelius

Arvina, the tw'o Roman consuls.

3702 302 Deputies come to Rome from Carthage, with a com-

pliment and presents, which the Romans accept,and return others.

Forty cities built by Seleucus in Asia.

Ptolemeus and Cassander wage war against Antigonus. •

3703 301 Lacparis, an obscure citizen, seizes the sovereignty.

of Athens, and obliged them to submit.

The Samnites desire to be admitted into their ancientalliance with Rome, which is granted them con-ditionally.

The Equi revolting, their whole nation is almost to-tally exterminated by the Romans.

3704 300 The famouf city of Antioch built by Seleucus, king

of Babylon.

3706 2»8 The art of painting introduced into Home by C’. Fa-

bius, who was afterwards raised to the dignity ofconsul.

3707 297 The revolting Marsi reduced to obedience by Fabius

the Roman dictator.

Valerius, the Roman dictator, subdues the Iletruvians.

A.'M. B. C.

3709 295 Ncquinum, afterwards named Narina, besieged by the

Romans.

The Romans again vanquish the iletrurians undertheir consul Valerius Corvus.

Demetrius besieges Athens, and obliges them to sur-render at discretion on account of the famine thatprevailed in the city.

3710 294 Thebes successfully besieged by Demetrius, the

Macedonian king, after a very obstinate resistance.The rebellious Iletrurians and Samnites overthrownbv Fulvius, the plebeian consul.

3711 293 All Samnium laid waste bv the Romans.

Sixteen cities built by Seleucus, the Macedonianking, in Asia Minor, in which large Jewish colo-nieswere settled with great privileges,

3712 292 The Samnites defeated in several small battles.

The revolting Iletrurians overthrown by the Romanconsuls with great slaughter; the former leaving7300 dead in the held.

3713 291 The Samnites still remaining very troublesome,

16,300 of them are killed in an engagementheaded by the pra’tor Appius.

3714 290 The Samnites defeated by the Romans in several

small battles.

3715 289 The almost utter destruction of the Samnites by the

Romans effected by the latter taking Volanum,Palumbimim, Herculaneum, and Sepinum.

3716 288 The Samnites still troublesome to the Romans, the

latter, under Fabius, the consul’s father, killed20,000 of them upon the spot, and took theirgeneral Pontius prisoner.

3717 287 Athens taken bv Pyrrhus, king of Macedonia.

3719 285 Lysimachus, king of Thrace, having conquered

Pyrrhus, reigns over Macedonia in his stead.

The Romans having ravaged the country ofiiie Sam-nites, and taken their capital city, put an end to awar which had lasted 49 years.

The Sabines entirely reduced by the Romans, undertheir, consul Curius.

3720 284 Colonics sent by the Homans into Adria, a»inavitime

town that gave name to the Adriatic sea, to Cas-trum in Picenum, and to Seno at the motith ofthe Sene.

This year a census made at Rome, by which it ap-peared that there were in this city 273,000 citizenstit to bear arms.

The famous watch-tower in the island of Pharos nowfinished 1 .

3722 282 Seleucus conquers Lysimachus, and adds Thrace to

, his empire.

The Tarentines, originally a colony of Spartans thatsi Itled in the south part of Italy, stir up the Boii,Senones, and Iletrurians, against Rome; theSenones go against the Aretini, the allies of Rome,upon w hich tire Romans send ambassadors to dis-suade them from their enterprize: but they mur-der them, and immediately inarch their troops be-fore Aretium, the consul Lucius Ccecilius en-gages them, is killed in the battle, and seven le-gionary tribunes, most of the Roman knights,and 13,000 private men. The senate immedi-ately sends the famous Curius Dentatus againstthem, who goes into tiie country of the Senones,where he plundered and burnt their houses, putall able to bear arms to the sword, and carried thewomen ami children away captive, and thus ren-dered the whole country desolate.

3723 281 The Tarentines successful against the Roman fleet.

'1 hurimn besieged and takjn from the Homans bythe Samnites.

3724 280 The Boii defeated by the Homans, and obliged to

sue for peace.

The Acha'ans having rendered themselves famousfor their regularity, justice, and impartial beha-viour, induced most of the Greek cities to join

their