[ x 9 ] 
EhhrasrOi/ra IxX&ttmv, ervpri^n ev ’AAgfarJ^ast, 7ra?st 
to 7r£fj.7r%v T715 iSicti ex.Aenrooi> S ictuilpa' oireo ec^'t xcclx 
TW (pOLvlcuai'cLV 7 r<2£« ScOCTVA'85 S VO Xj ftpdt^u. 
By the quantity of obfeuration here mentioned, this 
feems to have been the fame eclipfe with that quoted 
by Theon from Hipparchus; but as the place ofob- 
fervation in both thefe authors appears to have been 
Alexandria in Egypt, it mud have been after that place 
was built. Confequently it was probably obferved 
there by Hipparchus himfelf, and therefore could not 
have been the eclipfe foretold by T hales. Befides, 
was this eclipfe total upon the banks of the Helle- 
fpont, I know not what reafon there is for fuppofing, 
that the battle between the Lydians and the Medes 
was fought there. It fhould rather feem, that the 
engagement was on the confines of the two king- 
doms : confequently in a more fouthern latitude, and 
in a longitude more to the ead of Alexandria, this 
eclipfe could not have been total ; nor therefore (as 
Herodotus faid it did) turn day into night. 
Sir Ifaac Newton, in his chronology, likewife fup- 
pofes the eclipfe meant to have been that in May, 
the year before Ohrid f 8 f . But in this, perhaps, 
he rather followed others, than adopted it after any 
examination of his own. That treatife never had 
the finifhing hand of its great author, and it is well 
known now in what manner it came abroad. 
According to Riccioli, this eclipfe was at the Hel- 
lefpont central, and at Sardes fell out at 6 of the 
clock in the afternoon.; and therefore is rejected, you 
find, by Maier, in the Peterfburg Acts, as being 
too late in the day, “ Quia ad littora Afisc minor is 
C 2 “ (fays 
