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of Fulcher and Flaccus in — 35 (p. 434), and after this year he is 

 said to have actually reigned 35 years (Joseph. Ant. xiv. 16, 2 ; xv. 

 I, 2). The year — 35 is confirmed by the report (Dio xlix. 22) that 

 Herod took Jerusalem on the loth day of Hyperberetaeus (Sept. 

 14th), "being a Saturday"; for in — 35 only the nth day of Sep- 

 tember was a Saturday. The year being fixed in which Herod's 

 reign of 35 years commenced, it is evident that Herod must have 

 died in the year called o, that is to say, during the first year of 

 our original Dionysian era, and subsequent to Christ's birth, as 

 the Evangelists and the Fathers of the Church bear witness. 

 These results are astronomically confirmed by the total lunar 

 eclipse in the year o, January 9, iih. 30m., ft 3° E., which pre- 

 ceded Herod's death by about three months (Joseph. An. xvii. 



6, 4). According to Josephus, Herod died a short time prior to 

 Easter, celebrated always on March 20th (p. 414), and nearly 

 three months after the eclipse on Jan. 9th of the year o. Since, 

 then, Herod visited the Olympian games in the 25th year of his 

 reign, he assisted at them in — 9 ; and this, again, is a year which, 

 being divided by 4, gives the remainder i, like — 41. 



Besides these epochs, thirteen years of later times are mentioned 

 by Roman and Greek authors, during which the same Olympian 

 games have been held. We specify the following : Fhilostratus 

 (V. A. iv. 24, 17 ; 18, 34) relates that the Olympian games took 

 place seven years prior (o Nero's departure for Greece, namely, 

 A.D. '^9, 01. 209, I. Nero himself, coss. Telesinus and Paulinus, 

 went over to Greece for the purpose of attending the Olympian 

 games to be held in the same year, a.d. 67. as Fhilostratus (v. 



7, 11), Pausanias (x. 36, 4), Eusebius (ad Ol. 211, i), Cramer 

 (Anecd. ii. p, 151), Dio (63, 8), Suetonius (Nero 19), Josephus 

 (B.J. ii. 20, i), Suetonius (Vesp. 4), recount. 



Further, Fhilostratus (V. A. vii-i. 14) relates that, coss. Domi- 

 tian XVn. and Clemens, i.e. a.d. 95, Ol. 218, i, the Olympian 

 games were celebrated. — Again, Fausanias (Ferieg. v. 21, 6) 

 reports that the Olympian games were re-enacted a.d 127,01. 

 226, I.) The same author (x. 34, 2) writes that during the third 

 year of Amelius and Verus, Ol, 235, i, the same games were 

 repeated. 



Furthermore, Gellius (N. A. viii. 3), Lucian (viii. 297), Am- 



