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To render himself secure, Jeroboam next sought to make a distinction in religious worship ; 

 and "ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast 

 that" is "in Judah:" called also "the month which he had devised of his own heart" (i K. vi. 38, 

 and xii. 26 to 33). In ingrafting a calendar year of twelve lunations upon the Mosaic institutions, 

 the new festival would be initiated in (" 10 " -f- 2\ =) the thirteenth month : — which may perhaps 

 explain the circumstance of the "eighth" month " bwl " having become the Third.month of the 

 Muslims. 



971 B. C. (= 1071 -f- "about 100 years" of Clint, i. p. 96 and 134), the Minyae expelled from 

 Lemnos and the island occupied by Pelasgians from Attica. — Pelasgians continued on Lemnos in 

 the days of Darius (Herodot. iv. 145, v. 26, and Pausan. vii. 2). 



Not earlier than this date (Graha Munjari tables, Puranas, and Bentley as. res. viii. p. 244), 

 Dipticetu reigning in Hindustan. 



969 B. C. (= 972 y. 357 ? % d. — " 5th year " of Rehoboam, 1 K. xiv. 25 and 2 Chron. xii. 2), 

 capture of Jerusalem by Shishak king of Egypt. A record of this event, with an accompanying 

 portrait of king Sesonk, has been discovered by Champollion on the walls of the temple at Karnak. 



One hundredth generation. May 1st, 967, mostly beyond youth: the prophets Shemaiah, and 

 Iddo (1 K. xii. 22, 2 Chron ix. 29, xii. 15, and xiii. 22). 



In the reign at Athens of Codrus son of Melanthus (Euseb., and Clint.), irruption into Asia 

 Minor of Amazons and Cimmerians. 



965 B. C. (= 974 — "9 years " of Phoenician annals in Menand. Ephes., and Jos. c. A.), at Tyre, 

 Abdastratus slain by the four sons of his nurse ; and succeeded by the eldest of them, — who reigned 

 "twelve " years. 



962 B. C. = "30th year after the Return of the Heraclidae " (of Didym., and Clint.), capture of 

 Corinth by the Heraclidae or Dorians under Aletes ; who established himself there as king (Diod., 

 and Paus. ii. 4. 3). 



961 B. C. = "about thirty years after the Return of the Heraclidae " (of Clint, i. p. 131 and 140, 

 see Herodot. iv. 147, and Strab. viii. p. 347), Eurysthenes and Procles, twin sons of Aristodemus 

 and Argia, having attained majority, installed as kings of Sparta. Their uncle and guardian Theras 

 retiring with a colony to the island of Calliste, from him called " Thera." Theras and his sister 

 Argia were of Cadmean descent, in the "sixth" generation from Oedipus (Callim. h. Ap. 74, and 

 schol. Apollon. iv. 1764). 



959 B. C. (= 1071 — "33 — 12 — 1 — 8 — 37 — 21 years " of Castor in Euseb. i. p. 134 = 931 

 -f- "8th -\- 20 years" in Hieronym. vers., see also Conon 26), Codrus king of Athens slain in battle 

 against the Dorians ; under the belief, that his own death would cause the defeat of the enemy. He 

 was succeeded by his son Medon, who by a change in the form of government, was made archon 

 for life. 



After the war with Codrus (Strab. ix. p. 393), the city of Megara not far from Athens, occupied 

 by the Dorians. 



"958 B. C." (according to astronomers) the date implied in Hesiod's remark respecting the rising 

 of the Pleiades. Hesiod of Ascra in Boeotia composing poetry in the Fifth or Iron Aye, after the 

 conclusion of the Fourth containing the men who fought at Thebes and Troy (op. 155 to 175). His 

 father may have taken part in founding Aeolian Cuma, but he himself had never crossed the sea, 

 except only as far as Euboea (op. 219 to 648). 



I'iscum album of Europe and the adjoining portion of Asia. Called in Britain mistletoe, in 

 Anglo-Saxon " mistiltan " (Prior), in Germany " mistel " (Grieb), in France "gui " (Nugent), in Italy 

 " visco albo " (Lenz), in Greece " ixia " or in Laconia " mSlla " (Sibth.), in which we recognize the 

 " mella " growing on the oak according to Hesiod — (Plin. xvi. 11, compare Theophrast. iii. vii. 5): 

 the " uphfiar " of the Arcadians growing on pines and spruces, is distinguished from the " ixia " by 

 Theophrastus caus. ii. 17. 1 and 2; is mentioned also by Pliny xvi. 93, and Hesychius ; V. album 

 was observed by Sibthorp, Chaubard, and Fraas, on mountains as far as the Peloponnesus growing 

 on Abies picea and sometimes on the oak ; by Kotschy, on spruces on the Taurian mountains (Lenz). 

 Westward and Northward, the druids of Gaul when in rare instances the " viscum " was found on the 

 oak, collected it with religious rites on the " sixth day of the moon," the beginning of their months 

 and years (Plin.) : V. album is termed " v. baccis albis " by Tournefort inst. 610 ; is known to o-row 

 in Italy and throughout middle Europe as far as Britain (Pers., Engl. bot. pi. 1470, and Pollini). 



Loranthus Europceus of the East Mediterranean countries and Siberia. A kind of mistletoe 

 called in Italy " visco quercino " (Lenz), in Greece " 6x6s " (Belon, and Sibth.) or " ixos " (Fraas) ; 



possibly the "viscum" growing according to Hesiod together with the preceding on the oak 



(Plin.) : the " ixou " whose leaves are prescribed in Int. affect. 93, is mentioned also by Aristotle, and 

 Athenaeus ; the " ixia " called in Euboea " stSlis " and distinguished by its fruit, is described by 

 Theophrastus caus. ii. 17 as growing on the oak, terebinth, and many other trees, and the term " ixou " 



