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A16955	An apologie in briefe assertions defending that our Lord died in the time properly foretold to Daniel For satisfaction of some students in both vniuersities. H. Broughton.	Broughton, Hugh, 1549-1612.	1592 (1592)	STC 3845; ESTC S106725	50,096	86

worshyp Bachus most of all the Goddes and for him keepe a feast called Thyia Outrage and say that their God commeth to their feast Into a chamber they put three empty pannes 〈◊〉 the presence of such as wyll beholde they seal● the doores on the morrow they finde the pannes full of Wine the seales being whole and this they sweare to be true So true do I holde their reckonyng of Olympiades Obiection But Xenophon reckoneth by a certen number Answere to Xenophons Olympiade 93. 1 Xenophon in deede seemeth to countenaunce Hippias Eleus a litle For he reckoneth Ellanic 1. the Olympiade nynty three But with a great number of other notes and by the game of two Horses coched fyrst set vp for a game and called Xynoris 2 The next Olympiade after he forsaketh all numbryng barely by the gamester Crocmas Thessalus describeth it 3 His number eyther was not of olde in his copyes or of small estimation yf Suidas folowed authours of accompt by whom Philips triumphes fall to Olympiade 100. or rather Philip was nygh the supposed 93. Olympiade how so euer to others it can truely be ioyned and both for so much may well stande the 93. and the 100. Olympiade to shewe the meane time to be but lytle aboue 24. yeeres 4 Timaeus and Philistus for tymes not long afore whom for Camarina I cited lytle regarded olympian summes after Xenophons reckonyng Neyther can later men bryng any authority for them when Hippias neuer founde two of his age embracers of his Olympian table Of Solons age and Philip Macedons to be of the lyke distaunce by Heathen as Iakim and Iaddue are cast from scripture to be A Gaynst suche as lyke of Olympiades I may bryng them and that well for Solons age whom Tatianus placeth in Olympiade 40. Now in the 48. Clemens doth place Nebuchadnezars 8. yeere and captiuity of Iechonias VVherefore Solon should be of Iosias tyme. Laertius placeth Solons Lawgeuing in Olympiade 46. that is about Iakims reigne Let vs holde on then to Athens fall in these iourneys Pisistratidae ruled Athens 40. Isocrat●de biga About Euilmerodachs twelfth yeere they myght be cast out and Miltiades made by them ruler of Chersonelus myght be then some 40. yeeres olde Marathon fielde 20. yeres after that when Mardonius was there soone after for enuy Miltiades banishment of ten yeres seemes to folow That Andocides mentioneth Xerxes warre was ten yeeres after that There the principality of Athens grew whiche I woulde reckon from Xerxes praeparation when Grecia consulted of defence and knew that which way Athens tooke all would fall Miltiades in his ten yeeres banyshment is a meane of truce betwixt Athens and Spart And this can hardly be 7. yeeres after but graunt seauen Thence the truce kept of 13. yeeres ensued Then sone after a peace of 30. kept 14. by Thucidedes 15. by Xenophon yet Aeschines and Andocides speake that Athens kept that peace 30. yeres but Thucidedes Xenophon expound their meaning And they expound Thucidedes and Demosthenes who make 50. yeeres betwixt Xerxes warres and Archidamus which in propriety was little more then halfe so much and Isocrates giueth all Athens principallity but 65. which principallity ended not vntill Lysander of Lacedaemon tooke Athens after 28. yeeres warre In that warre Atrometus father to Aeschines the oratour lost his wealth belike through Archidamus when Attica was ouer-run So he might well be borne at Xerxes warres yet he was but 94. when his sonne pleaded for his life against Demosthenes Aeschines also serued vnder Alcibiades Socrates and Alcibiades were killed neare that warres ende Aeschines by the iudgement of some heard Socrates He should be as Pamphilus in Terence past minoritie that heard Philosophers Graunt him some twentie fiue yeares of age then He died after Alexander about 75. So Philip should dye after Alcibiades about 40. yeares then was the father of Aeschines aliue and his mother who had fled at Lysanders victorie his elder brother was aliue his yonger his Children were yet but yong then Demosthenes reckeneth but 240. yeares from that time a little afore Philips death vnto Solon who by the way sticked not to take 50. for litle more then halfe fiftie To Solons last times about 200. by Scripture compared in Iakim and Iaddue with Solon and Demosthenes may well be graunted and the whole 240. vnto Solons first yeares Yea the generall speach of Grece in Socrates time maketh Solon very ancient whereby he might well match Pharao Nechoes antiquity Yet the hulkes of Nechoes shippes made by his authoritie abode vnto Herodotus dayes which argueth somewhat the shortnes of the time to be not aboue a mans olde age of 150. yeares when Henodotus might write that So by Olympiades the best that they affoord best agrees with Scripture Otherwise they appeare to be nothing worth and I may iustly blame my aduersarie for defending that they are not most v●certaine Of Romes Chronicle noted in latine A. V. C. anni vrbis conditae the yeares since the Citie was built ROmes antiquitie also is as one thred of the three which can not soone be broken But Clotho the daughter of Night in Hesiod seemeth to be the first spinner of it Or as Penelope twisted vntwisted her thred to keepe aloofe her louers so is the antiquitie of Rome spun What one twindeth another vntwindeth and for any purpose some thing hence may be brought The oldest Romane writer being about 500. yeares later then Romulus is supposed and recorded builder of Rome and extreame disagreement arising herein Onuphrius wondreth at the varietie of opinions by whom and when Rome should be built and citeth a full tedious sort To him I referre yong students Ennius in his time from since Romulus built Rome holdeth it about 700. yeares Varro in Tullies age beginneth a new accompt and maketh it then scant 700. yeares olde For comparison after Troy and afore Alexander and by subduction with Cyrus take this Gellius by Cornelius Nepos and Cassius maketh it built about 300. yeares after the Troyan horse and 400. afore Alexanders birth Nowe Trogus in Iornandes maketh Cyrus to be in Tomyris warre 630. after Priamu● death Wherefore Cyrus shoulde be aboute the 300. A. V. C. and about 100. afore Alexanders birth and that should I graunt Thus Rome helpes nothing So we may compare the Romane kinges with Iakim king of Iudah and with Cyrus For by 300. yeeres from Priamus to Romulus and 244. from Romulus to Tarquinius and Brutus death Romes kinges shall be founde to ende afore Iudahs whereby Cyrus shal be nothyng further from Alexander then I place hym Iornandes is holpen by Democritus in Laertius who was borne in Olympiade the 80. and when he wrote Micron Diacosmon reckoneth it after the Troikes 730. yeeres How true it is I wyll not dispute By the same accompt I made Zeno Iumor to Socrates though by Plato he

winged Lion soone came vp and by his seuen yeres madnes was in such disgrace that Greekes the babes as plato recordeth in Timmo hauing not at home in Solons age anie storie of a graye heade scant coulde heare of anie great Empire Eastward of his And Ctesias who pleadeth Persian court-rolles for his monumēts doth passe ouer the Babylonians as vnheard of This beeing duely considered the Greekes will be frendes to me for old acquaintance who of a childe was more acquainted with them than with Latines and will confesse that they neuer meant to trouble me for the Persians rule ouer the Iewes but to shewe what the Persians in their glorie claime since Cyrus youth and first successe in warres If they will not stand with me thus I will bewray them and shewe the worlde that commonly they deserue but suche credit as Epimenides their prophet and Paule our Apostle giueth to the Cretes that Cretes are aey lyars Of Greekes nullitie I might disgrace their skil for antiquity in their great diuersitie for Homers age who hauing written fortie and eight books with mention of most townes in Grece yet hath halfe a score of auncient writers differring some foure hundred yeeres from others when he shoulde liue by gathering his distance from the warres of Troy which Greeke diuines as Tatianus Clemens Africanus Eusebius ioine to Salomons times But I will combat with them touching matter most litigious in my case for their diuersitie after Alexander sonne to Amyntas of Darius Hystaspis age which Alexander kild Darius Ambassadours and was with Mardonius Xerxes Generall Him Perdiccas did succeede of whom Thucidides writeth that he died in the third yere of the Peloponnesian warres That Perdiccas reigned yeres by Nicomedes fortie and one by Theopompus thirtie and fiue by Anaximenes fortie by Hieronymus eight and twentie by Marsias and Philochorus but three and twentie This difference citeth Athenaeus mentioned in a most learned assemblie of men most skilfull in Greeke auctours As was Masurius a Lawier Monius a Poet famous Plutarch Leonides Eleus Aemylianus Maurusius and Zoilus a most fine Grammarian Also philosophers manie Pontianus Democritus and Philadelphus Oratours manie with Vulpian that woulde not admit one worde without authoritie If these heathen Greekes of all countries and professions knewe no certeintie nor regarde Grekes for their owne age should we to disturbance of all diuines reuiue their fame Neuer by my consent An obiection from Thucidides Thucidides an Athenian being aliue in the Peloponnesian warres maketh it fall out fiftie after Xerxes wars he for so late times might see the truth Thuc. bell 1. Answer M. Ioseph Scaliger noteth that somtime writers speake against their owne knowledge touching times Conceits best knowne to them selues moue them And Thucidides might hope that his citie of Athens might in time be thought a long ruler of Greece and thereupon woulde not sticke to spare some vntruths Or otherwise as men busied slippe muche in plaine matter he might likewise And if all were granted him yet from other partes so much maie be subducted as we neede But I will bring an instance from the tripping of a greater man for times neere him Plato is the man euen the stateliest of all Greeke prophane auctours Athenaeus bringeth in one that checketh Plato for mentioning of Pericles death as past a litle tine while ago of a matter in the same speech done the last yeere afore the telling which yet was foure and twentie yeres after Pericles death If Piato was knowne to be so negligēt in marking times Thucidides alone hath no great authoritie against whome I will haue more if I see occasion to examine by partes Eratosthenes account Thucidides condemnation of Greekes He blameth the Athenians as grosse for report of late and most famous matters of Athens as not knowing mistaking which of Pisistratus sons was kild by Harmodius and Aristogiton yet they were kings in Athens Likewise he blames other Grecians for manie famous present thinges and not forgotten by reason of time in which as touching kinges of Lacedemon writers extreamelie missed There he laieth downe this sentence That the most parte take no paines in seeking the truth And blameth euen historiques for fauouring acceptation of the hearers more than the truth amongst whom his commēter noteth that he nipped Herodotus We might as well thinke him touched with the errours of his times Pausanias testimonie He blameth them no whit lesse For this report he affoordeth them that Greeke recordes for the most part differ one from an other and for the most thinges Greekes haue sundrie opinions in Arcad. pag. 280. and Boeot pag. 294. and Messen pag. 112. of the Greeke printed in 1584. Plutarchs testimonie Plutarch in Solon sheweth that Greeke Chroniclers thought by reason of times difference that Solon coulde neuer be with Cresus whome he answereth that their chronicall cannons coulde neuer be brought to agreement by anie thing commonly acknowledged for all the paines bestowed in the kind And in Numa he sheweth that times gathered from Olympionicae deserue no credit Continuall disagreements The differences betwixt Phaneas Ephorus Timeus Clitarchus Eratosthenes and Duris in Clemens Alexandrinus from Trois fall that is from Salomons reigne vnto Alexanders voiage is tedious to be repeated By Duris it is one thousande yeeres whereof by Scripture about 410. are past by Nabucadnetzars reigne and so by a consequent the Persians should reigne not one hundred and thirtie yeeres but aboue fiue hundred So Greekes haue from Adam to the flood in him two thousande two hundred fortie and eight for one thousande six hundred fiftie and six from Sem to Abraham one thousande two hundred and fiftie for foure hundred fiftie from Isaak to the partition of the land yeres six hundred sixteene for foure hundred fiftie two Thence to Samuel foure hundred sixtie and three for three hundred fiftie and for the kings fiue hundred seauentie and two that came somewhat neere About fiue hundred and tenne it was and for the Persians one hundred thirtie fiue If when Scripture directeth to a most exact summe men misse so much we should hold only the plainenes of Gods word as in the Ebrewe text it was most purely kept and not mans opinion our square Neither should we maruell at heathen missing for the Persians as we expounde them when Greeke Christians who haue scripture to direct them giue the iudges foure hundred sixtie and three whereas from the Lambe vnto the temple all is but foure hundred and foure score 1. Kinges 6. 1. whence must be subducted fortie for the wildernes seauen for conquest fortie for Samuel and Saul fortie for Dauid and three for Salomon A kinde of helpe But as diuines haue bin deceaued for the Iudges reckoning the oppressors yeeres seuerall from theirs which were within theirs in deede and shoulde nothing haue augmented the summe euen so were prophane Greekes as we vnderstande them both for reckoning Paras first times seuerall from the Babylonians which