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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710. _Lycurgus_, brings the poems of _Homer_ out of _Asia_ into _Greece_. 708. _Lycurgus_, becomes tutor to _Charillus_ or _Charilaus_, the young King of _Sparta_. _Aristotle_ makes _Lycurgus_ as old as _Iphitus_, because his name was upon the Olympic Disc. But the Disc was one of the five games called the _Quinquertium_, and the _Quinquertium_ was first instituted upon the eighteenth Olympiad. _Socrates_ and _Thucydides_ made the institutions of _Lycurgus_ about 300 years older than the end of the _Peloponnesian_ war, that is, 705 years before _Christ_. 701. _Sabacon_, after a Reign of 50 years, relinquishes _Egypt_ to his son _Sevechus_ or _Sethon_, who becomes Priest of _Vulcan_, and neglects military affairs. 698. _Manasseh_ Reigns. 697. The _Corinthians_ begin first of any men to build ships with three orders of oars, called _Triremes_. Hitherto the _Greeks_ had used long vessels of fifty oars. 687. _Tirhakah_ Reigns in _Egypt_. 681. _Asserhadon_ invades _Babylon_. 673. The _Jews_ conquered by _Asserhadon_, and _Manasseh_ carried captive to _Babylon_. 671. _Asserbadon_ invades _Egypt_. The government of _Egypt_ committed to twelve princes. |
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