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known : one has been used by Father Q-oar, the first editor of 

 the Chronographia (Paris, 1652) ; the other, which is a much 

 better one, has been collated by Dindorf, the second and latest 

 editor. Dindorf 's edition was published at Bonn, in the year 

 1829, as part of the Corpus Scriptorum Historice Byzantines, and 

 on its first appearance Mr. Mac Cullagh had satisfied himself as 

 to the original readings of the Catalogue, and had seen how to 

 account for the errors which, probably from Syncellus's own 

 negligence, had crept into it ; but he did not publish his conclu- 

 sions at the time, thinking that similar considerations could not 

 fail to occur to some of the numerous writers who were then 

 giving their especial attention to such subjects. This, however, 

 has not been the case. Chronologers have continued to follow in 

 the footsteps of Goar, a man of little learning, and of no critical 

 sagacity, who corrected the Catalogue most injudiciously, and 

 whose corrections, strange to say, are left without any remark 

 by Dindorf. Thus Mr. Cory, in his Ancient Fragments, a work 

 much referred to, merely transcribes (roar's list ; and Mr. Culli- 

 more, in attempting to reconcile ancient authors with each other 

 and with the monuments, has adopted an hypothesis respecting 

 the identity of two sovereigns which is not tenable when the 

 true version of the Catalogue is known. Even in Groar's edition, 

 however, there was quite enough to have led a person of ordi- 

 nary judgment to the correct readings of the Catalogue, though 

 perhaps they could not be said to be absolutely certain without 

 the additional light obtained from that of Dindorf. 



The Catalogue in question professes to contain the names of 

 thirty-eight sovereigns, with the years of their reigns ; the whole 

 succession occupying, as is stated, a period of 1076 years ; but 

 it is only in the last eight reigns that the errors and inconsist- 

 encies occur. The thirty-second prince is called Stamenemes /3, 

 that is, Stamenemes the Second, though there is, at present, no 

 other of that name in the list ; and the beginning of his reign 

 as appears from the years of the world, which Syncellus has 

 annexed according to the Constantinopolitan reckoning follows 



