568 CHRONOLOGICAL ARRANGEMENT 



addressed to him by Sidonius Apollinaris. But before the close of the year, Avitus was deposed and 

 ordained bishop of Placentia. 



" The same year" (Idat , and Clint.): expedition of the Gothic king Theodoric II. into Spain, 

 and the king of the Suevi captured by him at a place called "Portucale." In this year also, the 

 Heruli, "about four hundred men in seven ships," make their appearance on the Northern coast of 

 Spain, plundering. 



"457, Jan. 26th to Feb. 7th" (Marcellin., and Clint.), Marcian succeeded by Leo, fourth Byzan- 

 tine emperor. Who was crowned by a priest: — an innovation adopted by Christian potentates 

 generally, and from which in the words of Gibbon, the clergy eventually " deduced the most formidable 

 consequences." 



"April 1st" (incert. Chron., and Clint.), at Rome, accession of Majorianus as Western emperor. 



" The same year" (Clint.), the Paschal cycle of "five hundred and thirty-two" years, invented 

 by Victorius of Aquitain. 



" In this year" (ann. Jap., transl. Tits.), An-ko succeeded by his brother You-riak, now twenty- 

 second dairo of Japan. 



" 45S A. D." (Agath., and Clint.), Yesdejerd II. succeeded by Firoze, fifteenth Sasanid king of 

 Persia. 



" In this year = 4th of the ' ta-ming' of Hiao-wou-ti " (Hoei-chin trav., and Klapr.), Buddhism 

 introduced into Fou-sang (Yeso ?) by five priests from Ki-pin (Bokhara according to Leland and 

 lond. sat. rev. 1875). 



"459 A. D." (Max Mull. p. xi) accession of Dhatusena or Dasen Kelliya through the influence 

 of his uncle the historian Mahanama, author of the Mahavamsa. — Dhatusena ruled Ceylon until 



"477-" 



" 461 A. D." (Marcellin., and Clint), Majorianus succeeded by Severus as Western emperor. 

 Also in this year, Leo Magnus succeeded by Hilarus or Hilarius, "forty-fourth" bishop of Rome. 



"462 A. D." (Idat.. and Clint), Eudoxia widow of Yalenlinian III., returned by Genseric to 

 Constantinople. The Vandals under him ravaging Italy in this, — and the spring of the two suc- 

 ceeding years. 



'■464, July 20th, Monday " (Idat., and Clint.), eclipse. — Determined to this date by Petavius. 



"465 A. D. = ' tai-chi,' 1st year of Ming-ti IV., of the Northern Soung" or Tenth dynasty — 

 (Chinese chron. table.). 



"The same year" (Marcellin., and Clint.), at Rome, Severus succeeded by Anthemius as 

 Western emperor. 



"466 A. D." (Idat., and Clint.), Theodoric II. king of the Goths, succeeded by Euric. 



One hundred and forty-third generation. Sept. 1st, 467, mostly beyond youth : the Syriac 

 ecclesiastical writer Samuel of Edessa : the Creek philosophers, Pamprepius, and Marinus ; the 

 historians, Malchus, and Candidus ; the grammarian and naturalist Timotheus of Gaza; the chro- 

 nologer Eustathius ; the Greek ecclesiastical writers, Gelasius of Cyzicus, and Theodulus of Coele- 

 Syria : the Latin ecclesiastical writers, Fulgentius, and Yietor Vitensis. 



The use of sympathetic ink (according to Jost iv. p. 35, note in Steinschneid. i. 4), mentioned 

 in the Talmud Jer. sabb. ii. 



"Sept. 25th" (Steinschneid. i. 4), death of Mar, son of Rab Ashe, and regarded as the last 

 Talmudical authority. — Within "eight" years, the redaction of the Talmud Babeli (Babylonian) 

 was completed by R. Jose. A gap follows in JeuiJi litoature (Leps. eg. and sin. p. 456); until 

 the "Eighth" century and the Seder Olam kab.ih, " one of the first writings of the Rabbis" next 

 succeeding. 



"46S A. D." (Idat., and Clint), Hilarus succeeded by Simplicius, "forty-fifth" bishop of Rome. 

 End of the chronicle of Idatius. 



" 470 A. D." (Jornand., and Clint.), " twelve thousand Britons " under king Riothimus landing at 

 Biturigas to assist the Romans, intercepted and defeated by the Goths under Euric. 



" In this year " (Elph. iv. 1), accession of the Rathor dynasty of Hindu kings at Canouj. 



-471 A. D." (Vict. Tun., and Clint), Anatolius bishop of Constantinople succeeded by Genna- 

 dius ; and before the close of the year, by Acacius. 



"472 A. D." (Vict Tun., and Clint), at Rome, Anthemius succeeded by Olybrius as Western 

 emperor ; and before the close of the year, by Glycerius. 



"November" (Marcellin., and Clint), eruption of Mount Vesuvius, covering all Europe with 

 minute dust. — An event commemorated afterwards at Constantinople annually. 



In this year(="i6th of You-riak," Klaproth note to ann. Jap.), "muriers " (Moms alba?) 

 planted in all the provinces of Japan by order of the dairo You-riak. 



"473 A - D - = ' Youan-hoe'i,' 1st year of Tchou-yu " or Tsang-wou-wang, of the Northern Soung 

 or Tenth dynasty — (Chinese chron. table). 



