The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended - To which is Prefix'd, A Short Chronicle from the First - Memory of Things in Europe, to the Conquest of Persia by - Alexander the Great by Isaac Newton
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974. _Sesac_ spoils the Temple, and invades _Syria_ and _Persia_, setting up pillars in many places. _Jeroboam_, becoming subject to _Sesac_, sets up the worship of the _Egyptian_ Gods in _Israel_. 971. _Sesac_ invades _India_, and returns with triumph the next year but one: whence _Trieterica Bacchi_. He sets up pillars on two mountains at the mouth of the river _Ganges_. 968. _Theseus_ Reigns, having overcome the _Minotaur_, and soon after unites the twelve cities of _Attica_ under one government. _Sesac_, having carried on his victories to _Mount Caucasus_, leaves his nephew _Prometheus_ there, and _Ãetes_ in _Colchis_. 967. _Sesac_, passing over the _Hellespont_ conquers _Thrace_, kills _Lycurgus_ King thereof, and gives his Kingdom and one of his singing-women to _Oeagrus_ the father of _Orpheus_. _Sesac_ had in his army _Ethiopians_ commanded by _Pan_, and _Libyan_ women commanded by _Myrina_ or _Minerva_. It was the custom of the _Ethiopians_ to dance when they were entring into a battel, and from their skipping they were painted with goats feet in the form of Satyrs. 966. _Thoas_, being made King of _Cyprus_ by _Sesac_, goes thither with his wife _Calycopis_, and leaves his daughter _Hypsipyle_ in _Lemnos_. 965. _Sesac_ is baffled by the _Greeks_ and _Scythians_, loses many of his women with their Queen _Minerva_, composes the war, is received by _Amphiction_ at a feast, buries _Ariadne_, goes back through _Asia_ and _Syria_ into _Egypt_, with innumerable captives, among whom was _Tithonus_, the son of _Laomedon_ King of _Troy_; and leaves his _Libyan Amazons_, |
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