OF ACCOMPANYING ANIMALS AND PLANTS. 213 



740 B. C, "before the fifth year of the Messenian war" (Pausan. iv. 7, and Clint, i. p. 337), 

 Alcamenes succeeded by his son Polydorus, colleague of Theopompus and tenth Spartan king in the 

 Agid line. 



738 B. C. (= 753 y. 250^ d. — " 16 years" of twelve lunations of 2 K. xv. 33 and 2 Chron. 

 xxvii. 1), Jotham succeeded at Jerusalem by Ahaz, fifteenth Jewish king. 



Besieged in Jerusalem by Pekah king of Israel and Rezin king of Syria (2 K. xv. 37, xvi. 5 to 10, 

 and 1 Chron. v. 26, see also Nicol. Damasc), Ahaz sent for aid to Tiglath-pileser the Assyrian 

 emperor : who, improving the opportunity, captured Damascus and put an end to the Syrian kingdom. 

 Rezin, the last of "ten generations of kings" from Hadad (contemporary with David), was slain. 



" 735 B. C." ( . . . Lacharme note to Chi-King i. 3. 10), Tchouang-kiang queen of Ouei. 



" In this year" (Thucyd., and Clint.), in Sicily, Naxos founded by Greek colonists from Chalcis 

 in Euboea, led by Theucles. 



" 734 B. C." (Euseb., and Clint., see also Timaeus, Diodor., Strab., and Plut.), after leaving on 

 Corcyra or Corfu a colony in charge of Chersicrates, Syracuse founded by the expedition from 

 Corinth commanded by Archias. These settlements of the Corinthians appear to have been under- 

 taken with some regard to the purposes of commerce. 



One hundred and seventh generation. Sept. 1st, 734, mostly beyond youth : the prophets, Micah, 

 and Joel : the Greek poets, Prodicus of Phocaea, Diodorus of Erythrae, Augias of Troezen, and 

 Hegesinus ; the composer of- music, Olympus the younger (Clint, i. p. 345) ; the Boeotian lawgiver, 

 Philolaus. 



" 733 B. C " (= 747 — " 14 " = 731 -|- " 2 years " of Astron. can. and Clint, i. p. 278), Nabo- 

 nassar succeeded by Nadius, as king of Babylon. 



"732 B. C." (Euseb. and Clint., see also Pausan. i. 3. 2), at Athens, Aesimenides succeeded by 

 his son Clidicus, third decennial archon. 



" The same year " (Euseb. and Clint.), " Tenth " change in naval dominion. Leaving the Milesians, 

 the " Empire of the sea " acquired by the Carians, or Carian Greeks. — Held by them " sixty-one " years. 



Among other evidence of the extent of the voyages of the Carians, is " Karikon-tSihos ; " a city 

 on the West coast of Africa, North of the Desert — (mentioned by Hanno, Ephorus, C. Ptolemaeus, 

 and Stephanus Byzantinus, C. Mull, geogr. min. i. p. 4). 



" 731 B. C." (= 726 -f- " 5 years " of Astronom. can., and Clint, i. p. 278), Nadius succeeded by 

 Chinzirus and Porus, as king of Babylon. 



"730 B. C." (= 734— "5th year after Syracuse" of Thucyd. vi. 3, and Clint.), in Sicily, the 

 two cities of Leontium and Catana founded by Greek colonists. 



728 B. C. (= 759 — " 31 — 6 yrs " of the Afr -Maneth. table, the same table giving 

 715 4- " 14 yrs " = 729, and the Euseb. -Maneth. table -f- " 12 yrs " = 727), Savak6n 

 succeeded by his son Se"vih6s, second king of the Twenty-fifth dynasty. " Twelve " 

 years only are assigned to his reign in the Euseb. -Maneth. table. The name of king 

 Sabatok occurs "on a small ruined temple at Karnak " — (Glid. analect.). 



The same .year (= " about the fourth year of the Twelfth Olympiad," Cine. Al., and Clint), the 

 date for the founding of Rome — given by Cincius Alimentus ; derived perhaps while a prisoner with 

 Hannibal and the Carthaginians (see 722 B. C). 



At Caere in Etruria, and at Ardea and Lanuvium in Latium, there were paintings more ancient 

 than the founding of Rome (Plin. . . . , and Bryan diet, paint.). A painting of Atlanta and Helen 

 in a ruined temple at Lanuvium is specified. 



LoHcs rectus of the Mediterranean countries. Called on Zacynthus " melilSton thelukon (Sibth.), 

 possibly therefore the "meliloton" or " sertulam campanam " worn in garlands by the ancient Ital- 

 ians, — its odour saffrony as well as the flower, "ipsa cana" the plant hoary, and with short leaves 

 (Plin. xxi. 29) ; mentioned also by Celsus v. 11, and "serta campanica" by Cato 107, Ovid fast. iv. 

 440, and Vegetius iii. 6: the "m£lil6tos'' growing in Campania is described by Dioscorides as 

 "atonon" weak-scented, and is identified in the added synonyms with the " s£rt6ulam " or " trupa- 

 tioum " of the Romans : L. rectus is described by Morison ii. pi. 18 ; is termed " 1. lybica " by Rivinus 

 tetrap. pi. 78, "1. villosus altissimus flore glomerato " by Tournefort inst 403 ; and is known to grow 

 in Southern France, its stem "pubescente villoso " and leaflets " obovatis " (Pers.). Eastward, the 

 " seYtoulam " of the Romans is further identified in Syn. Diosc. with the " th£rmouthis " of the 

 prophets, and " aimSith " of the Egyptians : " mSlilotinous " garlands are mentioned by Alexis, and 

 Nicander then 897 ; and Theophrastus vii. 15. 3 speaks of many different kinds of "16tos" including 

 one called "mSlildtos;" L. rectus was observed by Sibthorp, and Chaubard, from Crete and the 

 Peloponnesus to Constantinople. (See Melilotus officinalis). 



727 B. C. (Schmitz . . . , see also Archiloch., and Strab. xiv. 1. 40), Magnesia on the Meander 

 captured and destroyed by the Treres, a Cimmerian tribe. The presence of these barbarians, 

 encamped in wagons and threatening ruin, is described and deprecated in a poem by Callinus. A 



