OF ACCOMPANYING ANIMALS AND PLANTS. 



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953 B. C. (= 955 y. 357^ d. — "3 years" of 1 K. xv. 2 and 2 Chron. xiii. 2), Abijam succeeded 

 at Jerusalem by his son Asa, sixth Jewish king. 



The same year (= 965 — "12 years " of Phoenician annals in Menand. Ephes., and Jos. c. A.), 

 accession at Tyre of Astartus son of Delaiastartus ; aged forty-two (= " 54 — 12 "), and who reigned 

 " twelve " years. 



952 B. C. (= 972 y. 354^ d. — "22 years" of twelve lunations of 1 K. xiv. 20), Jeroboam suc- 

 ceeded at Tirzah (1 K. xiv. 17) by his son Nadab, second king of Israel. 



950 B. C. (= 951 y. 228^J| d. — "2 years " of twelve lunations of 1 K. xv. 25), Nadab slain ; and 

 succeeded at Tirzah by Baasha, third king of Israel. 



The same year (=959 — "9 years" of Castor in Armen. vers, of Euseb.), Medon succeeded 

 by his son Acastus, second hereditary archon of Athens. "Thirty-six" years are assigned to his 

 rule by both Castor, and Eusebius. 



Elczagnus angustifolia of middle Europe. A small tree called by the Turks "idae" (Forsk.) : 

 the " kotinon " brought from the country of the Hyperborei (according to Pindar ol. 3, and Pausanias 

 v. 7, by Hercules) to Athens, where it was planted in the temple of Erechtheus on the acropolis — ■ 

 and called "kallist£phanon," the tree afterwards burned by the Persians, a sucker surviving (Herodot. 

 viii. 55), the leaves according to Aristotle mirab. 52 white on the upper surface instead of the under, 

 is referred here by Camus: the "kotinos" is mentioned also by Theophrastus ii. 3, Theocritus v. 

 100, Moschus vii. 2, and is identified by Dioscorides with the " agriSlaia : " E. angustifolia is described 

 by Tournefort cor. 53 as having the fruit "olivaeformi subdulci ; " was observed by Forskal under 

 cultivation on Tenedos and at Constantinople, its yellow edible drupe as large as an olive and the 

 flowers said to be strongly odorous ; by Sibthorp, on Samos and near Smyrna ; and by Hasselquist, 

 in Palestine. Westward, is known to grow in somewhat moist situations among the Alps and 

 Pyrenees (Pers. ; see E. Orientalis). 



949 B. C. (= 1071 — "80 — 42 years" of Apollod., Diodor., and Euseb. i. p. 166), Eurysthenes 

 succeeded by his son Agis as one of the two kings of Sparta. 



While Sous son of Procles was reigning jointly with Agis (Plut. lye. 2, see also Ephorus in 

 Strab. viii. p. 360), the revolted citizens of Helos subdued and reduced to slavery : apparently, the 

 beginning in Greece of this institution "thouleia." The Lacedaemonians (according to Theopompus) 

 " when they conquered the Achaeans, and the Thessalians when they conquered the Perrhoebi and 

 Magnetes, were the first who reduced to slavery the former occupiers of the country." — (See also 

 Simonid., Cic. div. ii. 43, Pausan., Athen. vi. p. 265, and Clint, i. p. 144 and 333). 



The address of Mou-wang (quoted in the Chou-king iv. 27, Pauth. p. 196) contains an allusion 

 to "black" marks made on the face of criminals ; evidently tattooing. 



" 946 B. C. = 1st year of Koung-wang, of the Tcheou " or Fifth dynasty (Chinese chron. table). 

 943 B. C. (= 952 y. 357/5 d. — " 10 years " of 2 Chron. xiv. I to 8), end of "ten years " of peace ; 

 employed by Asa in fortifying cities and preparing against invasion. 



Hardly earlier than this date (Graha Munjari tables, Puranas, and Bentley as. res. viii. p. 244), 

 Dyutimah reigning in Hindustan. 



941 B. C. (= 953 — " 12 years " of Phoenician annals in Menand. Ephes., and Jos. c. A.), Astar- 

 tus succeeded as king at Tyre by his brother Aserymus ; (" 54 — 9" =) forty-three years old, —and 

 who reigned "nine years." 



The same year (= " 130 years after the fall of Troy" of auct. vit. Horn., and Clint, i. p. 140, and 

 "in the reign of Agis" of Pausan. iii. 2. I., see also Strab. xiii. 1. 3), the outlying island of Lesbos, 

 between Cumae and the Troad, occupied by Aeolian Greeks under Grais, son of Archelaus and 

 great grandson of Orestes. 



940 B. C. (before the "third month in the 15th year of the reign of Asa," 2 Chron. xiv. 9, xv. 11, 

 and xvi. 8), Osarkon or Zerah and his army of Ethiopians and Lubims, defeated at Mareshah by 

 Asa kin<r of Judah. Many "out of Israel" now placed themselves under the rule of Asa. 



The same year (= 954 y- 8 mo. — " 15 years" of both Maneth. tables), Osarkon 

 I succeeded by the third king of the Twenty-second dynasty. The name of king Take- 

 I lut occurs on contemporaneous monuments — (Leps. k. pi. 44). 



939 B. C. (= "third month in the 15th year of the reign of Asa," 2 Chron. xv. 10 

 to 1?), a covenant among the people assembled at Jerusalem; prohibiting change of 



religion under penalty of death. 



The same year ( )• The accession of Osarkon II., fourth king of the 



Twenty-second dynasty, hardly earlier than this date. His name occurs on con- 

 temporaneous monuments, and on a statue — now in London (Glid. analect, and 



Leps. k. pi. 44). ,,,,-,■ 



"934 B. C. = 1st year of Y-wang, of the Tcheou" or Fifth dynasty — (Chinese 



chron. t;\ble). 



