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The irritings of Apollodoriis naturin suggestie two fosso ving observations: I. Though in Bibliossima ras remi Ia yearsine ine date of the aria Chronicie, it does not con- 'tain me mallest retices of a systematical chronesogy. a. The claroniciem Apollodorus is quoted by rnariuominent viter os antilai ile stat o Paros, Mitta eomprehensis a inore extensive period is entirely

About the sanie time ' Polybius ivrote his Universat Histo' r, originali consisting offore books, of inichfive ni are notu remaining, vim extracts iu fragments of oine offers. The sir an secon bookssorima sonis introduction to me rest. In me inita steauinor enters pon his principat subjecto, vhicli rus a iustor of the niost considerable transactions os in Romans, and me nations froin the ear 22o, oriecorninen ement of the second Cartha in si par, to thesau of me acedonian inpire, in 168 l. Ρolybius is in ino ancient Writer no v extant, thathas adopted the niectod os ascereaulinime dates of civiland nsilitar transections by in Olpinpiads. ut his his ory, exceptina in stor stetches containe in ste

Diodorias Siculus, Strabo, Plutarcia, Phlegon, A. Gellius, Lucian, leniens Alexandrinus, Diogenes Laertius pastinet Eusebius, Stephanus Byzantinus, c. Polybius via borii bes . Chr. Os years, and lied 123.r ς κα καθ uεη Polyb. l. n. c. 37. Strabo infornis iis, that Polybius Was present a ste' hirnnisto Corintho' L. Mulvinius, in the eaur that he sadgive an account Malia event in his iusto an particularinis. inented the destruction, Huct was inade by the Roma sol sers of many beautilat pictures, and other vork of ingenuity, when linyptundered si ci Sta ab. . ni. p. 38 .

rivo

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chronologica science. som, id tocli estia listis o more soli h regesar Mia scientita principies. The Greeh historians, in genen made se of ine Olympiacis in the cinnputationis inst. dionysius Hesicarnassem Diodoriis Siculus, linares Diogenes Laertius, aues iners, nil stis vos, hoW diis epocha ramis regulari coniiue in subsequent ages. But asino record ha been hepi: besere me es alis, inent of e Olympiacis, in me time o Coroebusa iano great amiarac observe in the Olympi careat ques tili ine lingvi tori, applied in historices purposes, inetransactions os preceding es stili remained in a state os obscuri anil confusion and est stat in Hesest claron

logere coaed iner iras accomplissi, vas a precario assystem, fotulae on the oose calculations o the arbi- may assertions of more ancient auth S.

I m ei sensiae, stat severat writers besides in Ihave mentioneis, utilis ted olympi Qualogues partimilari Aristocle, Demetrius Phalereus, Philochorus, Aristarchus, Stesiclides, Hippostratus, Hegon, M. But

is, Xenoph. l. v. , 6.

Hinostratus. v. Jons de Seript Hist Phil. l. iv. 43.

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sut stoin Hiis has been observia in ine intings of ine Greehs, frum Herodotus to Polybius, re an find nouaces of a regesar scientific chronesogy.L.et iis conside tiae se inent of in ancientsinius

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renti troin tha creation to ste ea aster Christaa I, ineris, με stat the Greelcchati no accurate histor besere in Olympiads an stat allisei accounts of preceding ages are confiise an inconsistent . 'Ius in Marty like se obsera es, istis ste Greehsha no ac rate histor besse die Olmpia is f.' Iustin vetore Aout thesea I o. Plistarcii, an author ostrea learning and j lgernent, ventiires no semer into Grecian antiquit' than me timeo Theseus. When e auempis to ove his eademino histor ararat hero, e says, A geographeractu sint me extremities of ei in s hos coun- tries, whkli re unknown eo inem, remaricin a die iam time, stat ali beyon is nothinibiit hilis of sui an haunts of ed beassos, fiozen eas, marshes, and molintans, inaccessies to human Cinarage imi indust si in comparin me ves of illustriolis naen, die Iriave petissed through the period o time, vilich may bedestruγedirim pr6tassility, and where histor mantad a

olynipitulas nihil certi a Graecis in historin traditur, omnibus con- filiis, nec ulla ex parte sta antea consentientibus. Afric Uud Euseb. Praep. Vang. . . c. o. symaeli. p. 15 .-Africanus ἀ- abolit the year of Qui a 3a Cave. 'Οτι iis Ἀλλη προ - - isti is axeime oris . Nihil a Graecis ante lympiades, coiriit scriptum esse ausi Maut ad Graec Cohori. p. 3 edit. τε86. Justis mas arum ab it ineyear 89, and Eed in a6 Fabricius.

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ure Dotinita facts I rna se of ste remotis ages, stata beyon is sta es prodig and fletion, in region o

poeta and fabulists, napi in clouds, and in vortis of Plutarchla ne plus ultra is notanucla more hau hava centu fore the sies of Troy sor Theseus is silio have carrie a va Hellen stoin Sparta, out a This excellent inter alces notice of ine inconsiti tencies of the Greel historians in nran piant of clum mesora, concerninisoni of the niost illustrious characters aiuliae nio impora ant transadtions os later times, in Hiita vae might have expected a generes agreementi Thus, he says, here is noctinibu uncemini and contradictio in me accounts Whicli historians have givemus of ILycurgus, ste Hebrate Spartan laivgiver soni se' in vas contemporar avit Iphitus, ara

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Iosephus asseris inare in ancient Greet writers deuro one noster' credidi stat in genealogiis of -- fio are corrected by Acusilaus that Acasilan is

Condemne l

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' Cicero de claris rM 4 6o. Dionys Huic. l. si . . a.. Sen. Consol ad Helv. c. Quint. . . .r Ant. Chr. 1 96 Banier. x Varro tria discrimina tenaporum esse mit, Primunt, at twminum principio ad cataclysmum priorem, quod proptα ignorantiam vocetur αλελον. Secundum,a cataclysm priore ad Oh inpiadem primam quod, es in eo multa sal tosa est intur, ia in no natur. inium, a prinia ly uisio ad nos, quod dieitue kΜαον, quia res in eo mitis, veris historiis continentur. Varroniis Fra . . ais. Censor de Die M. c. a. ano sita bes. Chr. 6 years. Eusetatis.

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But steranos important observati m oniis libyste cura in Diodoriis Siculus, Mio inserans us, stat, stim in undere icto nite his Historices Ibibra he vestia strouo many pares Maurope and Asia, in orderto vim mos places, inichae dies occasion to mentio and to examine evem inire, hichon fit be of semicet hit in his unde tang an stat he pent des' years in composia istis vore..'Yet indi ali his emuiram h declares, stat he disi

unde rationes temporum deducuntur, et quo referiintur.''Matitam styles it terminus fixus Stillino fleet, acertis fixe t epocha, certain xc Pieriod fetiam antiquiora, liquido investigari, propter tetraporis longinquit tran, non p.riis m. Thucyd. l. i , i.

rum operam in ut sat mentiam eontulimus, magnamque Asiae Miropae pariem, non absque Peraculis Maeriimnis,. perlustriivimus 3 ut pleraque, et maxime instituto huic nexessam loca inspiceremo ipsi. Diod in Proeeni. Iust. Mari Cohori. ad Graec. p. I Di litoriis flourished bes Chr. 6 years Blount.

semihi, non definimus cerio spatio quia nullum sumi potest A-RAPEGMA qui sidendum. Dioci, in Promin. e. s. time.

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inre sullis expiatos it hyste mores κανων, regula. ano mei leam inem, forisaei ignorariis auia Missiaci ninon, vim respect eo this strin, an clien procred todefine re in dias rinner Interpretes Diodori fimia-ineritum exponunti Maliger ad usinium, io adfiror ην, Censorinus titulum vocetit, id Diodoro vici παραπηγμα, - est, terminum fixin et liaremuerti. Παρα- πευμα propri est quicquid adfigitur. Hinc παραπηγώματα tabidie dices mirer adfixae columnis, in phis, in quidiis leges, aut alia publica monumenta inci lisantur . - . Παραπηγμα ι ρων aut μυθικον dicrtur series histori metu vel falniburam, minuturi ordinem Aporim δε-

est, Et Messensu pran aecipientam est in illis Diodori vestis . Thrs earned commentaton, I 1, A comprehend iis idea, supposes par egina to signi' inlita me callis aethronologaeu me, To me interpretations Psita sit,ibin e sentimenta es vos nis Diodorus Siculus stilum extendit terripiis ostimquspie 'in lann Trojaeivim atque additi, ante e tempora nihil certi haberi, propterea quod nullum sit παρ'πιπμα περc οντων προνομενον. empe astrologi iidenafriserit tabulas suas, quae παραπαπματα vocantur, uri sideritin ortus et occasu istae tempestates, isti an