464 Astronomical and Nautical Collections, 



Olympiadic Solstitial date of 



year. the beginning. 



not translated, which has every appearance of 

 high authenticity : the author was acquainted with 

 the principal astronomical occurrences which are 

 ' 'mentioned by Ptolemy, and he has introduced 

 many of them in -their proper places, at intervals 

 agreeing with those which are assigned by Ptolemy: 

 he seems to have been a person of correct judg- 

 ment, and he was a Christian, though too fond of 

 ' recording fictitious prodigies. There is great rea- 

 ''" 'son to suppose that he was no other than Africa- 

 nus, to whom Scaliger himself attributes the more 

 meagre catalogue of Olympic victors. 



Troy taken by the Greeks. See 692, The be- 

 ginning of Grecian history. About — 1016 



1. Establishment of the Olympic epoch. See 366 N. ^ — ''"75 

 6. p. 313, Ol. II. 2. Birth of Romulus and Remus. ^— '''70 



23. Ol. VI. 3. *' Rome founded according to some 



authors." 

 25. Ol. VII. I.Rome founded. ^-'^51 



This date is confirmed by Dionysius and others. 

 Tarutius, the friend ofVarro, as quoted by Plu- TS 

 <^. — £ tarch, makes the birth of Romulus the 21 Thoth 

 following the 23 Choeac, in the 1st year of the lid 

 Olympiad, and says, that Rome was founded the 

 9th Pharmuthi VI. 3 : but the Varronian era has 

 not been generally considered as of high autho- 

 ] ^^ rity. Pharmuthi was about the autumnal equinox. 

 30. Ol. VIII. 2. The beginning of the era ef " Na- 



busar." ^^ ^-^^^ «9^ 0-746 



This Olympic year must have ended about 



-•746y^-94^ that is, at the first midsummer in 



the reign of Nabonassar : consequently, the first 



. Olvmpic vear began 30, year^ earlier, or ^©--775^ 



55. p.'3i4, Ol. XIV.3. Thielst yeaVoMarc^oVEmpadus; 



an eclipse of the moon. See N. 27. §~'^21 



H u. The eclipse happened a little before the vernal 

 equinox following this solstice, that, is ^ — 720. 



137. p. 315, Ol. XXV. 1. Thales borp,; , .,„; i-639 



188. p. 316, 01. XLVrr.''4/''^aiJli¥ei^-featt iff reign in 



Egypt. • -;'f^ /-•<' v>--^P'-- — 0-588 



The article Egypt has 590 B.C. ; which, ex- 

 pressed in astronomical language, is — 589. 

 191. Ol. XLVIII. 3. Foundation ohhe Pythian games. 



An eclipse of the sun foretold by Thales. ® — 585 



