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tion. 1 (hall not enter into the Calculation j for I 
would not anticipate the Pleafure, one, that hath no 
Notion of the Age of Hefad , muft have, when he 
finds himleif able, with fo much Eafe and Precilion, 
to determine it by thefe Characters *. 
Hejiod’s Account of the ‘Pleiads is too particular 
not to demand our Attention, and require an Expla- 
nation in the fame way -j~. 
nAwaJW ’ AlActfeveoov tTrilzhXojJLZvaMV 
*A p%€& > a./J.ri'rti, aporoio 3 S'u&joy.evawv^ 
'A l £r\ roi runlets re lijmctlx reo^apdaovlcc 
Kexpv(paj‘ju- HcriOtf'. Epf> BiCa> I. 
Be- 
* Since I wrote thi?, I had the Pleafure to find Scaliger concur 
with me — 
Hefiodus florebat eo Sarculo, quo Ar Burus oriebatur in . 
Baotia-, viij. Dio Mart i. Si quid Itc ad CovjcBv.ram facit > faltem 
apud etccellentes AJbro'igis-, qui ex hoc Par apegmate infra feptuaginta 
plus minus Annas Satculum Hefiodi deprehendere pojfunt. Anhnadvers. in 
Chron. Eufebii , p. 6 7. Edit. Lugd. Batav. 1606. — 
The following Paflage in Sir ljaac Newton* 0 Chron. p. 95. hath 
come to my Hands Once the former. “ Hefiod tells us, that, 60 Days 
“ after the Winter Solftice, the Star Ar Burus rofe juft at Sun-fct 3 
Cl and thence it follows, that Hefiod flourifiied about 100 Years after 
‘ c the Dea h of Solomon , or in the Generation or Age next after the 
“ Trojan War, as Hefiod himfelf declares. ” 
’Tis what we may compute by the prefent Globe 3 for, bringing 
Ar Burns 10 the Eaftcrn Horizon, the Sun we fliall find in the Ninth 
Degree of Aries. Now it enters vy Dec. xi. and 60 Days after, or 
Feb. xo. it is in X i°. 30''. when allowing for the Northern Latitude 
of ArBums to make it vilible on the Horizon, its Longitude muft 
havebeenJU- fy.° L>Y whereas its Place now is about 20°. zq' . iz". 
And the Difference both ways one Sign 6°. 18k &c. which makes 
him to have lived 26x4 Years ago. 
f Ihfcc Sip/is reteres AgricoUs i & ex eorum Traditionibus Scriptores 
rei rujlica , vec non & Medici , l 'oet<c, & Hiftrici Junt ufi ad Anns 
Jemprjlatcs d'fgnandas, &tc. Greg Aftron. p. 130. 
