OF ACCOMPANYING ANIMALS AND PLANTS. 303 



"390 B. C." (Polyb., Diodor., and Grenfel), Rome captured by the Gauls under Brennus ; who 

 remained some months, and on leaving, compelled the citizens to pay a ransom. Camillus was 

 then recalled from exile and appointed dictator. — This capture of Rome is mentioned by Aristotle 

 (Plut. Camill. 22.) 



" 389 B. C." (Sm. b. d.), military tribunes holding the place of consuls, alliance with Rome 

 renounced by the surrounding people of Latium. Victories over them gained by the dictator 

 Camillus. 



The same year (=402 — "13 years " of both Maneth. tables), in Egypt, Ah6ris succeeded 

 by Psammouthis, third king of the Twenty-ninth dynasty. " One " year only is assigned to the 

 reign of Psammouthis in the Maneth. tables. His name has not as yet been found on the 

 monuments. 



388 B. C. (z= 389 — " 1 year " of both Maneth. tables), Psammouthis succeeded by Ne'phe'rites II., 

 fourth king of the Twenty-ninth dynasty. Whose name has not as yet been found on the monu- 

 ments. 



At the end of "four months " (both Maneth. tables), he was succeeded by N6ktan£ves, head of 

 the Thirtieth or Sebennyte dynasty. The hieroglyphic ovals of king Nehtharheb were observed by 

 Gliddon at Assouan ; occur also in the Oasis El-Kargeh, at Karnak and on the neighbouring temple 

 of Khons, and on moveable articles (now in the museums of Europe. Glid. analect). 



" The same year " (Suid., and Sm. b. d.), at Athens, the comedy entitled Pasiphae exhibited by 

 Alcaeus. 



" 387 B. C." (Xenoph., Blair, and Clint.), treaty of peace of the Spartan general Antalcidas ; by 

 which the Greek cities in Asia Minor were rendered tributary to the Persians. Evagoras king of 

 Cyprus was excepted from the provisions of the treaty. 



Hardly later than this date, oration of Isocrates pac. 32 containing the following words on the 

 possession of naval power by Sparta : •' The Empire of the sea has displayed its effects there in even 

 a shorter period than at Athens : it has shaken and nearly overthrown the institutions which had 

 stood the assault of seven centuries : it has taught individuals injustice, idleness, and the love of 

 money ; and has inspired the public with disdain for their allies, with ambition of conquest, and 

 contempt of oaths and treaties" (pac. 32). 



Apollodorus of Cumae, the earliest grammarian, a follower •' assectator " of Democritus — (Plhi. 

 vii. 37 and xxiv. 102, and Clem. Alex, strom. i. p. 309). 



Mimosa ettaa of the mountains of Tropical Arabia. A tree called there "schadjaret ettaa" 

 (Forsk.) ; and the " herbam aeschynomenen" of Apollodorus, contracting its leaves on the approach 

 of the hand — (Plin. xxiv. 102), may be compared: a spiny shrub at Memphis with feather-like 

 leaves that fall together on being touched, and after a while revive, is mentioned by Theophrastus 

 iv. 2. II, and the account is repeated by Pliny xiii. 19: M. ettaa was observed by Forskal p. xcv 

 frequent on the mountains around Abu arisch, lowering its branches to a person coming underneath 

 as though saluting, and therefore venerated and held sacred. Eastward, appears to have been 

 carried to Hindustan, for a tree three cubits high bearing no fruit and called "modesty" from 

 shrinking when approached, was seen there in the province of " Pudifetania" by Nicolo Conti ; and 

 a yellow-flowered sensitive plant was seen in Malabar by Garcias. 



Sedum telephium of Europe and the adjoining portion of Asia. Called in Britain livelong or 

 liblong or midsummer men, by old herbalists "fat hen" (Prior), in France "grassette " (Nugent), in 

 Germany "fette-henne," in Italy " fava grassa" (Lenz) ; in which we recognize the " anacampseroten" 

 when touched according to Apollodorus " redirent amores vel cum odio depositi " — (Plin. xxiv. 102), 

 and mentioned by Plutarch fac. orb. lun. 25 as growing and sprouting long after removal from the 

 ground ; also the " telephilon " leaf of Theocritus iii. 29, and Pollux ix. 8, regarded by lovers as a 

 good omen if it makes a loud crack, a belief alluded to by Horace satyr, iii. 2. 271 : S. telephium was 

 observed by Sibthorp in the environs of Constantinople. Westward, is termed " anacampseros sive 

 faba crassa " by Tournefort hist. 264 ; was observed by Lenz not rare in Italy ; and is known to grow 

 in stony bushy places throughout middle Europe as far as Denmark (fl. Dan. pi. 686, Pers., and 

 Lindl.). By European colonists, was carried to Northeast America, where it is sometimes called 

 Aaron's red and seems naturalized in rocky situations, though as yet chiefly confined to roadsides 

 and the vicinity of dwellings. The plant is sold in the Italian, drug-shops (Lenz), and according to 

 Lindley is " refrigerant and slightly astringent." 



" 385 B. C." (Diodor., and Clint.), great naval combat between the Persians and Evagoras of 



Cyprus. 



"The same year" (Diodor. xv. 13, Strab. vi. p. 241, Plin. iii. 18, and C. Mull, geogr. min. i. 

 p. 24), the city of Ancona in Italy founded by Dionysius of Syracuse ; now establishing colonies on 

 the shores, and claiming the sovereignty of the Adriatic. 



"384 B. C." (Sm. b. d), at Rome, military tribunes holding the place of consuls, M. Manlius 



