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if to this we add 400 years, we fhall have the year 
before Chrift 831. about which time confequently, 
according to him, both Homer and Hefiod muft have 
flourilhed. 
Among the moderns, Petavius (y) places Hefiod 
A. P. J. 3714. or about the year before Chrift 1000. 
and in his Ratiojiarium ‘ Temporum (6) he fays, that 
Heliod was contemporary with him, and that this ex 
Arcturi ortu, qaem poeta ijie defh'ibit , eruditi ar - 
tis i/lius colli gun t ; and in the margin refers to L011- 
gomontanus in his Aftronomia Danica (7). 
With Petavius agrees very nearly Palmerius, as 
cited by Dr. Hyde in his notes on Ulug Beigh(8), 
tho’ Sir Ifaac Newton (9), whofe authority with fome 
perfons is deciftve, tells us, that from the achronical 
rifing of the fame ftar it follows, that Hefiod ftou- 
rifhed about 1 00 years after the death of Solomon. 
This again he places, in his fliort chronicle, in the 
year before Chrift 979. from which, if we fubtradt 
(5) Uranolog. l.vii. c. 5. 
(6) Part I. 1 . i. c. 1 2. 
(7) And in this he hath the authority of AulusGellius,!. xvii. c. 21. 
who fays, ‘ De Homero & Hefiodo inter omnes fere feriptores con- 
‘ ftitit, aetatem eos egifle vel iifdem fere temporibus, vel Homerum 
‘ aliquanto antiquiorem ; utrumque tamen ante Romam conditam 
‘ vixifie, Silviis Albas regnantibus, annispoft bellum Trojanum, ut 
‘ Caffius in primo annalium de Homero atque Hefiodo feriptum re- 
< liquit, plus centum atque fexaginta, ante Romam autem con- 
‘ ditam, ut Cornelius Nepos in primo chronicorum de Homero 
‘ dixit, annis circiter centum & fexaginta.’ The building of Rome 
is commonly placed the year before Chrift 752. To this add 160 
years, and Homer and Hefiod will both, according to Cornelius 
Nepos, have lived about the year before Chrift 912. 
(8) Page 3. 
(9) Chronology , p. 95. 
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