222 Mr. Baily on the Solar Eclipse 
been assigned to this event by the several authors above 
alluded to. 
Pliny places this eclipse in the fourth year of the forty- 
eighth Olympiad ; which answers to the year 585 B. C. [Hist. 
Nat. lib. 2, cap. 12). A similar opinion has been advanced, 
among the ancients, by Cicero ( De Divinat. lib. 1, §. 49), and 
probably by Eudemus ( Clement . Alex. Strom, lib. 1, p. 354). 
And, among the moderns, by Newton ( Cliron . of Anc. King, 
amended ), Riccioli ( Chron . Refor. Vol. I. p. 228), Desvig- 
noles ( Chronol . lib. 4, chap. 5, §. 7, &c.), and Brosses [Mem. 
de VAcad. des Belles Lettres, Tome 21, Mdm. p. 33.) 
Scaliger, in two of his writings [Animad. ad Euseb. p. 89, 
and in OAu/x. avotyoatp ^ ) , has adopted the opinion of Pliny; 
but in another work [De Emen. Temp, in Can. Isag. p. 321), 
he fixes the date of this eclipse on the 1st of October, 383 
B. C. 
Calvisius, who was contemporary with Scaliger, thinks 
that it took place in the year 607 B. C. [Opus Chron.) 
Petavius says that it happened July 9, 597 B. C, [De Doct. 
Te?np. lib. 10, cap. 1): and he has been followed by Hardouin 
[Dissert.de lxx liebdom. Dan. §.3), Marsham [Chron. Canon. 
p. 561), Bouhier [Recher. et Diss. sur He'rodot. p. 42), and 
Corsini [Fast. Attic. Tom. III. p. 68); together with M. 
Larcher, the French translator of Herodotus (Tom. I. p, 
335 )- 
Usher is of opinion that it happened on the 20th of Septem- 
ber, 601 B. C. [Annul. Vet. et Nov. Testam.) 
Bayer has shown, from the astronomical tables then in use, 
that this eclipse ought to have taken place May 18th, 603 B. C. 
[Com. Acad. Scient . Imp. Petrop. Tom. III. ) : and he has been 
