Chaldaeans began their year of Nabonassar on the same Thoth with the Egyptians, and made it of the same length.  And the Thoth of the first year of Nabonassar fell upon the 26th day of February:  which was 33 days and five hours before the Vernal Equinox, according to the Sun’s mean motion.  And the Thoth of this year moves backwards 33 days and five hours in 137 years, and therefore fell upon the Vernal Equinox 137 years before the AEra of Nabonassar began; that is, 884 years before Christ.  And if it began upon the day next after the Vernal Equinox, it might begin three or four years earlier; and there we may place the death of this King.  The Greeks feigned that he was the Son of Tithonus, and therefore he was born after the return of Sesac into Egypt, with Tithonus and other captives, and so might be about 70 or 75 years old at his death.

883. Dido builds Carthage, and the Phoenicians begin presently after to sail as far as to the Straights Mouth, and beyond. AEneas was still alive, according to Virgil.

870. Hesiod flourishes.  He hath told us himself that he lived in the age next after the wars of Thebes and Troy, and that this age should end when the men then living grew hoary and dropt into the grave; and therefore it was but of an ordinary length:  and Herodotus has told us that Hesiod and Homer were but 400 years older than himself.  Whence it follows that the destruction of Troy was not older than we have represented it.

860. Moeris Reigns in Egypt.  He adorned Memphis, and translated the seat of his Empire thither from Thebes.  There he built the famous Labyrinth, and the northern portico of the Temple of Vulcan, and dug the great Lake called the Lake of Moeris, and upon the bottom of it built two great Pyramids of brick:  and these things being not mentioned by Homer or Hesiod, were unknown to them, and done after their days. Moeris wrote also a book of Geometry.

852. Hazael the successor of Hadad at Damascus dies and is Deified, as was Hadad before:  and these Gods, together with Arathes the wife of Hadad, were worshipt in their Sepulchres or Temples, ’till the days of Josephus the Jew; and the Syrians boasted their antiquity, not knowing, saith Josephus, that they were novel.

844.  The AEolic Migration. Boeotia, formerly called Cadmeis, is seized by the Boeotians.

838. Cheops Reigns in Egypt.  He built the greatest Pyramid for his sepulchre, and forbad the worship of the former Kings; intending to have been worshipped himself.