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Olympiadic Solstitial date of 



year. the beginning. 



Mr. Baily makes the eclipse mentioned by He- 

 rodotus as foretold by Thales, 610, B.C. that is 

 - 609. Ph. Tr. 181 1 . Both these dates might have 

 i. been in the reign of Alyattes; and if the story of 

 f'.i. Herodotus is true, Mr. Baily's computations are 

 :/ sufficient to prove that the earUer date is correct ; * 

 -1 and that the eclipse here mentioned was not that 

 lo of Herodotus. Pliny is the oldest author that has 

 -ja.' recorded this eclipse, in the reign of Halyattes, as 

 »»r having happened Ol. XLVIII. 4. Mr. Baily makes 

 *)•' it 30 Sept. 610, B.C., the sun's declination being 

 8'': that is, 0--6O9.Oy; the 167th Olympiadic 

 year. 

 Hibt.^, 318, Ol. LXIII. 3. Amasis dies, having reigned 

 .'> — 55 years. Cambyses conquers Egypt. §""^^^ 



'^^2b^ 01. LXIV. 2. The moon eclipsed iuiaie7ih year 



*^ino^^ Cambyses. \ / ,<> g— ^22 



This was 225 N. about 13 days after the solstice 

 •^ ^ ^ § of — 522 ; so that the Olympic games miist have 

 .Ri^Mifbllowed very shortly after the solstice, 

 275.UI4 01. LXIX. 3. The moon eclipsed, in the 20th of 



diofi Darius Hystaspi^j to rltrM /t © — 501 



^'^^ "'See 246. N. '• "^ 



344^j. 321, Ol. LXXXVI. 4. Apseudes being Archon, 

 ' , Meton, the son of Pausanias, erected a dial, and 



made known his cycle of 19 years. —432 



Jt^: " iThe solstice observed by Meton, while Apseu- 



vj^ des was Archon, appears from Ptolemy to have 



^Q been ©—431, 94 days after the vernal equinox: 



ni tHiftf^^ ^^*® Olympic year having begun soon after 

 ^gjl*' the solstice of -—431, this observation must have 

 Y^ - been made at the end of the archonship of Apseu- 

 des : and we find, in Nabonassar 468, Aristarchus 

 observed the summer solstice at the end of a Ca- 

 ''^ '' li'ppic year. 

 394. p. 324, Ol. XCIX. 2. Phanostratus being Archon, 

 '^^' an eclipse of the moon in Posideon, and again in 



Scirrophorion. 0—382 



' § The latter was only 10" days before the solstice 



ftj J, of -—381, which was near the end of this Olympic 



year: the former about the winter solstice, or the 



middle of the year. See N. 366. 



895. Ol. XCIX. 3. Menander or Evander being 



Archon. An eclipse of the moon in Posideon. 0.«381 

 About midwinter. See N. 367. 



