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2. 6 is described by Pliny xxi. 32 as coronary, its root called by some " libanotis ; " the " livandtis " 

 is identified through Syn. Diosc. with the "konuzes leptothrioio " of Nicander ther. 875, and "konuza 

 lepte" of Dioscorides; and the "em£rou konuzes" is mentioned by the scholiast Nic. ther. 70: P. 

 odora was observed by Sibthorp, Chaubard, and Fraas, frequent from the Greek islands to the 

 Peloponnesus and Constantinople. Westward, the " conyzam " sown for bees is mentioned by Pliny 

 xxi. 4( ; P. odora is described by Columna ecphr. pi. 253 ; is termed "aster luteus radice odora" 

 by Tournefort inst. 4S2, and is known to grow in Italy and Southern France (All., and Pers.). 

 " P. undulata" known to grow in Egypt and as far as Senegal, is regarded by Decandolle as probably 

 not distinct. 



" In the autumn " (= 778 — " 23 years " of Castor in Euseb., and Clint, i. p. 156), at Athens, 

 Aeschylus succeeded by Alcmaeon, thirteenth and last archon for life. 



754 B. C. (= 804 y. 49$-§f d. — " 52 years " of twelve lunations of 2 K. xv. 2 and 2 Chron. xxvi. 

 3), Uzziah succeeded at Jerusalem by his son Jotham, fourteenth Jewish king. (According however 

 to Julius Africanus, Jotham was king during the archonship of Aeschylus. See above). 



" In or about this year" (Percev. i. 49), accession of Yarob as ruler of Yemen. (The earliest of 

 the descendants of Cahtan or Yoktan known to the Arabs). 



753 B. C. = "last year of Vohhoris," death of an Apis or sacred bull — (Birch). 



The same year (= 1413 — 660 years = 351 -|- " 18 + 39" -f erased + " 124 -4- 177 -4- 44 

 years " of the Egyptian Chronicle = 759 — "6 years " of the Afr.-Maneth. table), end of a phoenix. 

 Marked in the Maneth. tables by "a lamb speaking," and by the "burning of the captive king 

 Vohhdris " (see Introd. p. . ). 



Vohhdris was burned by Savak6n, head of the Ethiopian or twenty-fifth dynasty 

 (Maneth.). Savak6n is mentioned also by Herodotus, and Diodorus. The name 

 of king Sabak occurs on the portals of Luxor and Karnak, on a statue — now in 

 Rome, and on some article (now in Florence, Glid. analect.). 



" In the autumn " (= 755 — • " 2 years " of Castor, Euseb., Syncell., and Clint, i. p. 

 156), at Athens by a change in the form of government, Charops son of Aeschylus made archon for 

 " ten " years. 



752 B. C. = "2d year of Sabak," death of an Apis or sacred bull — (Birch). 



"750 B. C." (Hieronym. and Clint.), "Ninth" change in naval dominion. Leaving the Egyp- 

 tians, the "Empire of the sea" acquired by the Milesian Greeks. 



" 748 B. C." (Clint, i. p. 160 and 247), Eighth olympiad, Phidon king of Argos presiding. The 

 first coining of money with inscriptions, is attributed to Phiflon ; by whom also, a system of weights 

 and measures was established (Herodot., Aristot., Strab., Plin., and others). His brother Caranus 

 founded the Macedonian monarchy. 



" 747, Feb. 26th " ( . . . Blair, and Clint, i. p. 278), era of Xabonassar. The king reigning at 

 Babylon who (according to Berosus and Alexander Polyhistor in Syncell. p. 209) destroyed the records 

 and everything relating to his predecessors, in order that he might himself head the List of Babylonian 

 kings. 



" 746 B. C." (Pausan. ii. 1. 1, and Clint.), Telestes slain; and the accession of Automenes, 

 twelfth king of Corinth. 



"745 B. C." ( . . . Clint.), a change at Corinth in the form of government; kings replaced by 

 annual magistrates called " prytanes." 



" In this year" ( . . Lacharme note to Chi-King i. 10. 4), the kingdom of Kiu-gouo detached from 

 Tsin by king Tchao-heou, and presented to his uncle Tching-chi.* 



" 744 B. C." ( . argum. Chi-King i. 7. 1 ), death of Ou-kong, prince of Tching. 



" 743 B. C." (Pausan. viii. 5, and Clint, i. p. 92), Aechmis reigning in Arcadia. 



"The same year" (Pausan. iv. 5. 4, and Clint.), beginning of the First Messenian war. Alca- 

 menes, leader of the Spartan army, being a colleague of Theopompus. — The war (according to 

 T\ rtaeus) continued " nineteen " years. 



742 B. C. = " 12th year of Sabak ; " the latest date in his reign found on the monuments (Leps. 

 k. tab. p. 21). Sabak concluded a treaty with Assyria, and his clay seal — has been found among 

 the ruins of Nineveh (Birch). 



" In this year" (Euseb., and Clint., see also Pausan. iv. 5. 4), at Athens, the accession of Aesi- 

 mides, another son of Aeschylus, as second Decennial archon. 



* Pachyma f ... of China. A fungus called "hoelen," large as a child's head, is considered 

 by the Chinese a valuable medicine (Lindl ) : the "fou-ling" collected towards the South on mount 

 Cheou-yang, according to an ode of the kingdom of Tang — (Chi-King i. 10. 12), described by La- 

 charme as growing near old pines and disagreeable in flavour, but strengthening the stomach and sold 

 at a high price, may be compared. 



