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2. 6 is described by Pliny xxi. 32 as coronary, its root called by some “ libanotis ; ” the “ livanötis ”
is identified through Syn. Diosc. with the “ konuzes lëptôthriôiô ” of Nicander ther. 875, and “ konuza
lëptê ’’ of Dioscorides ; and the “ ëmërSu kônuzës ” is mentioned by the scholiast Nic. ther. 70 : P.
odora was observed by Sibthorp, Chaubard, and Fraas, frequent from the Greek islands to the
Peloponnesus and Constantinople. Westward, the “ conyzam ” sown for bees is mentioned by Pliny
xxi. 41 ; P. odora is described by Columna ecphr. pl. 253; is termed “ aster luteus radice od ora”
by Tournefort inst. 482, and is known to grow in Italy and Southern France (All., and Pers.).
“ P. undulata ” known to grow in Egypt and as far as Senegal, is regarded by Decandolle as probably
not distinct.
“ In the autumn” ( = 7 7 8 — “ 23 y e a r s ” of Castor in Euseb., and Clint, i. p. 156), at Athens,
Aeschylus succeeded by Alcmaeon, thirteenth and last archon for life.
754 B. C. ( = 804 y. 4 9/If d. — “ 52 years ” of twelve lunations of 2 K. xv. 2 and 2 Chron. xxvi.
3), Uzziah succeeded at Jerusalem by his son Jotham, fourteenth Jewish king. «(According however
to Julius Africanus, Jotham was king during the archonship of Aeschylus. See above).
“ In or about this y e a r ” (Percev. i. 49), accession of Yarob as ruler of Yemen. (The earliest of
the descendants of Cahtan or Yoktan known to the Arabs).
753 B. C. = “ last year of Vöhhöris,” death of an Apis or sacred bull — (Birch).
The same year ( = 1413 — 660 years = 351 - f “ iS + 39 ” + erased + “ 124 -f- 177 -1- 44
years ” of the Egyptian Chronicle = 759 — “ 6 years ” of the Afr.-Maneth. table), end of a phoenix.
Marked in the Maneth. tables by “ a lamb speaking,” and by the “ burning of the captive king
Vöhh öris” (see Introd. p. . . ).
Vöhhöris was burned by Savakön, head of the Ethiopian or twenty-fifth dynasty
(Maneth.). Savakön is mentioned also by Herodotus, and Diodorus. The name
of king Sabak occurs on the portals of Luxor and Karnak, on a statue — now in
Rome, and on some article (now in Florence, Glid. analect.).
____ “ In the autumn” ( = 75s — “ 2 years ” of Castor, Euseb., Syncell., and Clint, i. p.
156), at Athens by a change in the form of government, Charops son of Aeschylus made archon for
“ ten ” years.
752 B. C. = “ 2d year of Sabak,” death of an Apis or sacred bull — (Birch).
“ 750 B. C.” (Hieronym. and C lin t), “ N in th ” change in naval dominion,
tians, the “ Empire of the s e a ” acquired by the Milesian Greeks.
Leaving the Egypiro
“ 748 B. C.” (Clint, i. p. 160 and 247), Eighth olympiad, Phidon king of Argos presiding. The
first coining o f money with inscriptions, is attributed to Phidon; by whom also, a system of weights
and measures was established (Herodot., A ris to t, Strab., Plin., and others). His brother Caranus
founded the Macedonian monarchy.
“ 747, Feb. 26th Blair, and Clint, i. p. 278), era o f Nabonassar. The king reigning at
Babylon who (according to Berosus and Alexander Polyhistor in Syncell. p. 209) destroyed the records
and everything relating to his predecessors, in order that he might himself head the List of Babylonian
kings.
“ 746B. C.” (Pausan. ii. i. i, and Clint.), Telestes slain; and the accession of Automenes,
twelfth king of Corinth.
“ 745 B. C .” ( . . . Clint.), a change at Corinth in the form of government; kings replaced by
annual magistrates called “ prytanes.”
“ In this year ” ( . . . Lacharme note to Chi-King i. 10. 4), the kingdom of Kiu-gouo detached from
Tsin by king Tchao-heou, and presented to his uncle Tching-chi.*
“ 744 B . C.” ( . . . argum. Chi-King i. 7. i), death of Ou-kong, prince of Tching.
“ 743 B. C .” (Pa-usan- 5> and Clint, i. p. 92), Aechmis reigning in Arcadia.
“ The same y e a r ” (Pausan. iv. 5. 4, and Clint.), beginning of the First Messenian war. Alcamenes,
leader of the Spartan army, being a colleague of Theopompus. — The war (according to
Tyrtaeus) continued “ nineteen ” years.
742 B. C. = “ I2th year of Sabak ; ” the latest date in his reign found on the monuments (Leps.
k. tab. p. 21). Sabak concluded a treaty with Assyria, and his clay seal — has been found among
the ruins of Nineveh (Birch).
“ In this y e a r ” (Euseb., and Clint., see also Pausan, iv. 5. 4), at Athens, the accession of Aesi-
mides, another son of Aeschylus, as second Decennial archon.
* Pachyma? . . . . of China. A fungu s caWeA “ hoelen,” largq as a child’s head, is considered
by the Chinese a valuable medicine (Lindl j : the “ fou-ling” collected towards the South on mount
Cheou-yang, according to an ode of the kingdom of Tang — (Chi-King i. 10. 12), described by La-
charme as growing near old pines and disagreeable in flavour, but strengthening the stomach and sold
at a high price, may be compared.
B r “ before the fifth year of the Messenian w ar” (Pausan. iv. 7, and Clint i. p. 3 0 ):
Alcamenes'succeeded by his son Polydorus, colleague of Theopompus and tenth Spartan kmg m e
B C ( = 753 y. 2 5 0 « d. - “ 16 years” of twelve lunations of 2 K. xv. 33 and 2 Chron.
“ fo tS s y ' l ’'’ i T h S l n U c t l l s S l ' N U S ’« ^ Gre"ek colonists from Chalcis
Clint., see also Timaeus, Diodor., Strab., and Pint.), after leaving on
Hegesinus ; the composer of music, Olympus the younger (Chnt. 1. p. 345) i Boeotian awg.ver,
B. C ” ( = 747 - “ t4 ” = 731 + “ 2 years ” of Astron. can. and Clint, i. p. 278), Nabonassro
S 0 0 e « d Ju ^ 0 0 iu s ,ro ^ k m g B « o m
' B T S ' lm / ’y'ero” ( l / T l l c h f o t ' . ) , “ Tenth ” change in naval domimro Bearing the Milesians,
the “ Empire of the sea ” acquired by the Carians, or Canan Greek^ — H e0 y 1 0 0
Among other evidence of the extent of the voyages of the Car.ans, ts / 7
on the W est coast of Africa, North of the D e s e r t - (mentioned by Hanno, Ephorus, C. Ptolemmus,
and A r o '/t ! '. Ban., and Clint, i. p. 278). Nadius succeeded by
^"'““ ™ : B l " ( = 7 l U “ttlfy lr ° !'fte r Syracuse” of Thucyd. vi. 3, and Clint.), in Sicily, the
two cities of Beontium a d CMana foroded b_y G r^ k cd om sfo
7 / 0 + < ;,a y r s” 4 729, and the Euseb.-Maneth. table + “ 12 y rs” = 7270 Sav0 6 n
succeeded by his son SSvihbs, second king of the Twenty-Mth / 0 ® U „
years only are assigned to his reign in the Euseb.-Maneth. table. The name of km^
iC S E Sabatok occurs “ on a small ruined temple at Karnak ” - (Ghd. analect.).
The same year ( = "about the fourth year of the Twelfth Olympiad.’ Cmc. A ., and Clmt), the
date for the founding of Rome - given by Cincius Alimentus ; derived perhaps while a prisoner
“ " " " m i! E t / r i l N d B ArNeBand L anlium - in Latium, there
than the founding of Rome (Plin. . . . , and Bryan d iet paint.). A painting of Atlanta and Helen
DOSsiblv th e r e fo r e th e “ m e lilo to n ” o r “ s e r tu lam cam p an am w o rn in g a r la n d s b y foe an c ie n t
fan s I t s O d t i r s a ffro n y as w e l l a s foe flow e r , “ ip s a c a n a ” foe
fPlin xxi ro) ; mentioned also by Celsus v. 11, and “ serta campanica by Cato '°7, Ovid fast, iv
L o and Vegetius iii. 6; the “ m glilbtos” growing in Campania 0,® ® °00 0
I ’on on ” weak-scented, and is identified in the added tioum” of the Romans : L. rectus is described by Morison 11. pl. 18 , IS termed 1. y
tetrap pl. 78, “ 1. villosus altissimus flore glomerato ” by Tournefort mst 403 i and ^ 0 °'™ S
irsm ith e r! N ance, its stem “ pubescente villoso” and leaflets “ obovatis” I foe
“ sgrtoulam” of foe Romans is further identified in Syn. Diosc. with foe thgrmout ^
prophets, and “ aimSith” of the Egyptians: “ mglilbtinous ” g a rla « s 0 ® ™®"0 ® 0
Nicander ther. 897 i and Theophrastus vii. 15. 3 speaks 0 many different kinds
one called “ m£lil5to s ; ” L, rectus was observed by Sibthorp, and Chaubard, from C
Peloponnesus to Constantinople. (See Melilotus officinalis). _
727 B. C. (Schmitz . . . , see also Archiloch., and Strab. xiv. i, 40), Magnesia on the Meander
captL ed and destroyed by the Treres, a Cimmerian tribe. The presence of these barbarian^
encamped in wagons and threatening ruin, is described and deprecated m a poem by Callinus.
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