192 CHRONOLOGICAL ARRANGEMENT 



The Li-ki, or Chinese Ritual * is regarded as belonging to the " Tenth century B. C" — (A. Dec). 



One hundred and first generation. Sept. Tst, 934, mostly beyond youth : the prophet Jehu (1 K. 

 xvi, and 2 Chron. xix. I and xx. 34). 



932 B. C. (= 941 — " 9 years " of Phoenician annals in Menand. Ephes., and Jos. c. A.), Aserymus 

 slain, and succeeded as king at Tyre by his brother Pheles ; forty-nine (= " 50 — o y. 8 mo ") years 

 old, and who reigned " eignt months." 



931 B. C. (= 1071 — "80 — 60 j'ears" of Philochorus, Eratosth., Aristarch., and Apollod. = 

 776 -f- "267 years" of Castor — 56— 56, and "in the archonship of Acastus" at Athens, Cast, in 

 Euseb. i. p. 131), the Ionic Migration. Colonists principally from Attica led by Neleus son of 

 Codrus into Asia Minor; where they founded the cities of Ephesus, Miletus, and Teos, adopting 

 however the worship of Diana anciently established "by the Amazons," and the other deities of the 

 country. (The date is confirmed by Mimnermus, and by the silence of Homer respecting the 

 Ionian cities of Asia ; the addition to the Second book of the Iliad being clearly by a later poet). — 

 During the next few yeats, other cities were built or occupied by the Greek colonists, as Smyrna, 

 Colophon, Erythra, and Phocaea. 



The same year (= 932 — "8 months " of Phoenician annals in Menand. Ephes., and Jos. c. A.), 

 at Tyre, Pheles slain and succeeded as king by a priest of Astarte or Ashtoreth named Eithobalus ; 

 aged (" 68 — 32 " =) thir'.y-six, — and who reigned " thirty-two " years. 



" In the reign of Eurypon " or Eurytion, son of Sous and third Proclid king at Sparta, "a long 

 war against the Arcadians of Mantinea; " who were living "under a popular government " — (Aristot. 

 rep. ii. 6. S, and Polyaen. ii. 13 ; see also Simonid., Herodot, Pausan. iii. 7. I, and Plut. lye. 2). 



927 B. C. (= 949 y. 2505U d. — " 24 years " of twelve lunations of 1 K. xv. 33), Baasha suc- 

 ceeded by his son Elah, fourth king of Israel. 



925 B. C. (= 926 y. 1 yjgYj d. — "2 years " of twelve lunations of 1 K. xvi. 8 to 24), Elah slain 

 and succeeded by Zimri ; who, after reigning " seven days in Tirzah," was himself slain and succeeded 

 by Omri, sixth king of Israel. 



923 B. C. = " 24th of Choiak in the 15th year of Osarkon II.," an eclipse of the moon expected 

 or happened — (inscript. by his successor, and Birch). 



919 B. C. (=924 y. 167m d. — "6 years" of twelve lunations of 1 K. xvi. 23), the city of 

 Samaria founded by Omri, for a new seat of government. 



In the Peloponnesus, the Cynurians, a remnant of the Pelasgians and Ionians, subdued by 

 Echestratus son of Agis and one of the two kings of Sparta ; the third in the Agid line — (Pausan. iii. 

 2. 2 to 7. 2, see also Herodot. viii. 73). 



"918 B. C." (Hieronym. and Clint, i. p. 23, Diodorus' numbers giving 1169 — "92 — 85 — 79 

 years" = 913), '" Fourth '' change in naval dominion; leaving the Thracians, the "Empire of the 

 sea '' acquired by the Rhodians. — Held by them " twenty-three " years. 



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

 Medhatithi reigning in Hindustan. 



917 B. C. = " 23d year of Osarkon II.," death of an Apis or sacred bull ; the latest 

 date in his reign found on the monuments — (Leps. k. tab. p. 19, and Birch). 



The accession therefore of Sesonk II., fifth king of the Twenty-second dynasty, not 

 earlier than this date. His name occurs on contemporaneous monuments — (Leps. 

 k. pi. 45). 



The same year (=: 949 ■ — "I — ■ 31 years " of Apollod., Diodor., and Euseb. i. p. 166), and " not 

 long after ihe conquest of Cynuria" (Pausan. iii. 2. 2), Echestratus succeeded by 

 Labotas as one of the two kings at Sparta; the fourth in the Agid line. 



915 B. C. (= 939 y. 8 mo. — "25 years" of the Afr.-Maneth. table), accession of 

 Tak<516this, sixth king of the Twenty-second dynasty. The name of king Takelut II. 

 occurs at Kirnak, and on a tablet — now in Turin (Glid. analect.). 



While the Rhodians held the sea, " Elpias " (towards the Southeastern extremity of Italv) 

 founded by them and the Coans ; and by themselves unaided, " Parth£nopen " (Naples), and 

 "Rothon" (beyond the mouth of the Rhone) : also according to some accounts, they colonized the 



* Amygdalus Sinensis of China. The scarlet-flowered peach is clearly a distinct species; and 

 the "tao" of the Chinese Ritual — (A. Dec), and Book of Odes, quoted by Khoung-tseu ta hio ix. 

 6, may be compared. Eastward, the "tao" as appears from the Japanese Encyclopedia lxxxvi. 7 

 was brought from China to Japan: the "too" or " momu " was seen by Kaempfer v. 798 in Japan, 

 and with var. "fiore rubro pleno " is according to Thunberg planted in almost every garden "ob 

 elegantiam riorum." By European colonists, A. Sinensis was carried to Australia, and a tree observed 

 in a garden there was said to produce fruit of good quality. 



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