The Egyptians reckoned the Reigns of Kings equipollent to Generations of men, and three Generations to an hundred years, as above; and so did the Greeks and Latines:  and accordingly they have made their Kings Reign one with another thirty and three years a-piece, and above.  For they make the seven Kings of Rome who preceded the Consuls to have Reigned 244 years, which is 35 years a-piece:  and the first twelve Kings of Sicyon, AEgialeus, Europs, &c. to have Reigned 529 years, which is 44 years a-piece:  and the first eight Kings of Argos, Inachus, Phoroneus, &c. to have Reigned 371 years, which is above 46 years a-piece:  and between the Return of the Heraclides into Peloponnesus, and the end of the first Messenian war, the ten Kings of Sparta in one Race; Eurysthenes, Agis, Echestratus, Labotas, Doryagus, Agesilaus, Archelaus, Teleclus, Alcamenes, and Polydorus:  the nine in the other Race; Procles, Sous, Eurypon, Prytanis, Eunomus, Polydectes, Charilaus, Nicander, Theopompus:  the ten Kings of Messene; Cresphontes, Epytus, Glaucus, Isthmius, Dotadas, Sibotas, Phintas, Antiochus, Euphaes, Aristodemus:  and the nine of Arcadia; Cypselus, Olaeas, Buchalion, Phialus, Simus, Pompus, AEgineta, Polymnestor, AEchmis, according to Chronologers, took up 379 years:  which is 38 years a-piece to the ten Kings, and 42 years a-piece to the nine.  And the five Kings of the Race of Eurysthenes, between the end of the first Messenian war, and the beginning of the Reign of Darius Hystaspis; Eurycrates, Anaxander, Eurycrates II, Leon, Anaxandrides, Reigned 202 years, which is above 40 years a-piece.

Thus the Greek Chronologers, who follow Timaeus and Eratosthenes, have made the Kings of their several Cities, who lived before the times of the Persian Empire, to Reign about 35 or 40 years a-piece, one with another; which is a length so much beyond the course of nature, as is not to be credited.  For by the ordinary course of nature Kings Reign, one with another, about eighteen or twenty years a-piece:  and if in some instances they Reign, one with another, five or six years longer, in others they Reign as much shorter:  eighteen or twenty years is a medium.  So the eighteen Kings of Judah who succeeded Solomon, Reigned 390 years, which is one with another 22 years a-piece.  The fifteen Kings of Israel after Solomon, Reigned 259 years, which is 171/4 years a-piece.  The eighteen Kings of Babylon, Nabonassar &c.  Reigned 209 years, which is 11-2/3 years a-piece.  The