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Some earlier Solar and Lunar Eclipses of the Greeks. 



2. This eclipse, predicted to the Milesians by Thales, and refer- 

 red to sunrise by Herodotus (i. 74), has already been alluded to 

 (p. 440). It is not the same which Herodotus refers to the battle 

 on the Halys ; for the latter, likewise predicted by Thales, hap- 

 pened several hours later, as we now shall see. 



1 <&- 4- The dates of these two eclipses depend on the stages of 

 Cyrus's life. Herodotus (iii. 37) reports that Cambyses, the son 

 of Cyrus, conquered Egypt in the course of the 5th year of his 

 reign, and that in the following year a new Apis period of 

 25 years commenced. These periods began, as we have seen 

 (p. 405), together with the Canicular periods, in — 2780, — 1320, 

 and A.D. 140; and the renewals of Apis periods occurred, sub- 

 sequent to — 1320, in all years which, being divided by 25, give 

 the remainder 20, e.g. in — 520, — 495, — 320, and so on. Since, 

 then, an Apis period recommenced in the 6th year after Cyrus's 

 death, viz. in — 520, it is apparent that Cyrus must have died in 

 — 526, and not, as Ptolemy's Historical Canon erroneously pre- 

 sumed, in — 528. Even Eusebius refers the death of C\'rus to 

 01. 62, 3, that is, to — 526. This result is confirmed by Daniel, 

 Cyrus's contemporary, and by the "turnus" of the Hebrew priests 

 down to the birth of John the Baptist and that of Christ. Xeno- 

 phon (Cyr. vii. 4, 16) bears witness that Cyrus, subsequent to the 

 capture of Babylon, reigned nine years, and Herodotus (viii. 7) 

 reports that Cyrus, seven years prior to his death, destroyed Nine- 

 veh and the Median supremacy in Asia, in consequence of which 

 Cyrus permitted the Hebrews to return to Palestine and to rebuild 

 the temple. Daniel (ix. 25) says : " Know therefore and under- 

 stand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore 

 and to build Jerusalem unto Messiah the Prince, shall be seven 

 weeks and threescore and two weeks," etc. Likewise, Daniel 

 reckons 33 years from the birth of Christ to the crucifixion. The 

 seventy weeks of Daniel have been explained in the author's 

 Chronologia Sacra (p. 107, 112), and in "Gettysburg Review," 

 1 861, p. 341. Daniel, in one word, reckons 532 years from the 

 destruction of Nineveh to Christ's birth, which happened, as we 

 have seen (p. 454), seven days prior to the beginning of the year 

 o, the first of the original Dionysian era. Moreover, the same 

 year — 532 results from the "turnus" of the 24 classes of the 



