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his day in idlenefs; {wings with liftlefs 
pampered eafe behind the gaudy vehicle, 
or waits in the halls of ceremony, to ufher 
in the morning vifitor; while the labo- 
rious female is employed in wafhing, 
fcrubbing, and other domeftic toil! How 
is man degenerated! How much fuperior 
are the women of Britain at this period 
to the effeminized race of modern petit- 
mattres ! 
(To be continued.) 
—mei 
For ithe Monthly Magazine. 
CONCERNING THE CHRONOLOGY OF 
AN ANECDOTE IN JEWISH HISTORY. 
IODORUS Siculus (HH. 24.) after 
WJ narrating the fall of Sardanapalus, 
affians to Arbaces the Mede, who con- 
» quered this king of Affyria, the empire 
of Afia. On the authority of a- work, 
forged apparently in the name of Ctefias, 
about the time of Alexander’s irruption 
into Afia, he attributes, to the fucceffors 
of Arbaces, the names Madaukes, So- 
farmos, Artias, Arbianes, and Arfaios. 
‘To the whole dynafty he allots a duration 
of 2¥4 years. 
‘¢ Under the laft of thefe kings arofe 
(continues he) a great war between the 
Medes and the Cadufians (that is, between 
the Medic er Perfian emperor, and the 
people of Judzea; Jerufalem being called 
by the earlier Greeks Cadutis), and from 
thefe caufes; that Parfodes, a Perfian, 
admirable for courage, prudence, and the 
other virtues, dear to the fovereign, and 
diftinguifhed above his fellows in the 
royal fanhedrim, from fome® critical dif- 
pleafure, deferted with 3000 foot, and 
zooo horfe, to the Cadufians; and gave 
in marriage his own fifter to fome one very 
powerful in thofe parts. To his com- 
menced revolt, he perfuaded the nation to 
adhere, and for his boldnefs got appointed 
jeaderof thearmyofindependence. Buthear- 
ing that a great force was forming againft 
him, he armed the Cadufians generally; 
and encamped at the outlets of the pro- 
vince, no lefs than 200,000 ftrong. The 
800,coo brought againft him by the 
king Artaios, he conquered, deftroying 
above 50,000, and chafing the reft from 
the ‘Cardufian confines. Admired for 
this by the inhabitants, he was chofen 
king, and continually infefted the Median 
territory, laying wafte the whole country. 
Having acquired great confequence, and 
his lite wafting from age, he bequeathed 
a curfe on the flinching fucceflors to his 
authority, if the Cadufians ever let go 
their hottility to the Medes.” 
Chronology of an Anecdote in fewifh Hiftory. 
[ O&ober p 
This feparation of Paleftine from the 
empire of the Medes and Perfians Dio- 
dorus places before the acceflion of Cy- 
rus: but in all the Jewifh hiftory prior to 
that prince (and it has defcended to us 
without breaks, and in a very credible 
form), no inftance occurs of any Perfian 
or other ftranger acquiring afcendency in 
the country. Noiative king occurs even, 
who made a fuccefsful ftand againft the 
great potentates in his neighbourhood, 
‘Solomon, perhaps, excepted, whofe ac- 
tions bear no refemblance at all to thofe 
afcribed to Parfodes. Whatever allow- 
ances be made for oriental hyperbole, or 
Greek fiction, in the enumeration of the 
armies, no analogous infurrection can be 
found, into which this rebellion might be 
dwindled. 
If the Arbaces of Diodorus (as was 
rendered probable, vol. x. p. 7.) be Da- 
rius the fon of Hyftafpes, the names a- 
{cribed to his fucceffors, the Artiafes and 
Arfaiofes, muft conceal thofe of the 
Xerxes and Artaxerxes, who inherited his 
empire. This is the more to be fufpetted, 
as in no preceeding period of Medic hif- 
tory can this dynafty of Diaderus be any- 
wife intercalated; for the Medes were 
governed by judges merely, (Herodot. 
Clio, 96.) until Dejaces; and he was re- 
gtlarly fucceeded by his defcendants, 
Phraortes, Cyaxares, Aftyages, and Cy- 
rus. The infurre&tion of Parfodes and 
the people of Paleftine, againft the Median 
king Arfaios, would thus be to feek under 
the fixth king from Darius, Artaxerxes 
Tnemon; or (if the two upftarts Xerxes 
IT. and Sogdian, were to be omitted n 
the tale), under Arfames or Arfés, the 
predeceffor of the third and laft Darius. 
Now Jofephus places, under Aries and 
Darius Codomanus, or Darius Il]. an 
event in many refpeéts fimilar to the nar- 
rative already produced: his information 
may be thus condenfed. XI. Ant. vil.2. 
«¢ Jonathan having died, was fucceeded 
in the high priefthoed by his fon Jaddua, 
who had a brother Manafleh. At this 
time Sanballat, a Cuthean, fent by the 
lat king of Perfia, was governor of Sa- 
maria: he knew that Jerufalem was a 
ftrong place, which had formerly occa- 
fioned much trouble to the kings of Af- 
fyria, and, being defirous of influence 
there, gave his daughter Nicafo in mar- 
riage to Manaffeh.’” XI. Ant. vill. 1. 
«The elders of Jerufalem, uneafy that the 
brother of the high-prieft, when married 
to a ftranger, fhould, contrary to their 
law, continue in authority, commanded — 
Manaffeh to divorce his wife, or net to 
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