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A61814	Breviarium chronologicum being a treatise describing the terms and most celebrated characters, periods and epocha's us'd in chronology, by which that useful science may easily be attained to / writ in Latin by Gyles Strauchius ... ; and now done into English from the third edition, with additions.	Strauch, Aegidius, 1632-1682.; Sault, Richard, d. 1702.	1699 (1699)	Wing S5941; ESTC R39107	274,730	510

4. Agesias was Archon at Athens in the same year that Alexander died See Diodor. Sicul. Arrian 5. In the same year were Consuls of Rome C. Poetelius and L. Papyrius See Diodorus Siculus 6. In the same year was the 114th Olympiad celebrated where Micinas of Rhodes carried the Day (e) L. 1. contr Appion Josephus Diodor. Sic. (f) L. 7. Arrian (g) L. 8. demonstr Evang Eusebius 7. Alexander died 236 years after Cyrus who began to reign over Persia at the Beginning of the 55th Olympiad Euseb L. cit 8. From the Beginning of the Nabonassarean Epocha till the Death of Alexander are computed 424 years according to (h) L. 3. Ptolemy 9. The year of the Christian Aera 238 was the 562 d after the Death of Alexander according to (i) de D. N. c. 21. Censorinus 10. 1214 years after the Death of Alexander there was a Solar Eclipse observed at Aracta both the great Luminaries being in the Sign of the Lion and that the same Eclipse hapned in the year of Christ 891 on the 8th day of August about Noon is manifest from the Ecliptical Calculations Albategn 11. The Death of Alexander is thus related by (k) Vit. Alex. Plutarch On the 18th day of the Month Daesius being seized with a Fever he remain'd all that Night in the Bath The next day after Bathing he hept his Bed-Chamber where he played at Tables with Medius Having bathed again at Night and assisted at the Sacrifice he eat with much Eagerness The same Night his Fever return'd again The 20th day of the Month after having bathed again he assisted at the Solemn Sacrifice and being laid down in the Bath he pass'd his time with a certain Commander of a Ship who gave him a Relation of his Voyage and of what he had observed otherwise most remarkable in the Ocean The 21st being pass'd in the same manner his Fever encreased towards Night And the next day the Fever growing more violent he was carried from thence to another Place near the great Bath where he entertain'd himself with the Generals of his Army giving his Orders to them On the 24th day his Fever still encreasing he would assist at the Sacrifice whither he was forced to be carried and ordered the Generals and other Chief Men to tarry within the Court and that the Colonels and Captains should keep Guard without the Gates On the 25th he was carried into one of the inner Apartments of the Castle where he slept a little But his Fever did not diminish When the Generals came to attend him he had already lost the Use of his Tongue which continued thus on the 26th The Macedonians believing him to be dead came in a tumultuous manner to the Gates and having forced those that attended to admit them within the King's Apartment they all passed one by one without their Arms by his Bed On the same day Python and Seleucus were dispatch'd to the Temple of Serapis to consult the Oracle whether Alexander should be conveyed thither But they received for Answer that they should not remove Alexander from the Place he then was in On the 28th towards Night he died Thus it is recorded in the Diary 12 It is very probable that the Month Daesius of the Macedonians was in the same Year coincident with the Month Thargelion of the Athenians of which these are the Words of Aelianus (l) L. 2. c. 35. Var. Hist It is reported also that Alexander was born and died on the self-same Day being the 6th of the Month Thargelion 13. After the Death of Alexander and many and long Debates among the Generals Aridaeus the Son of Philip who also had taken the Name of Philip was by the Majority of Suffrages constituted King and Perdiccas unto whom Alexander when at the Point of Death had given his Ring was chosen Regent pursuant to which all the Governours of the Provinces and other principal Officers were ordered to obey their Commands This was done in the same year when Cephisodorus was Archon of Athens Diod. Sic. L. 68. From these Characters it is evident that Alexander died in the Spring of the 4391st year of the Julian Period Cycl ☉ 23. ☽ 2. and that from the same year about the Summer Season when another Archon succeeded at Athens the Philippean Period had its Beginning If therefore from any certain year of the Julian To investigate the year sin●e the beginning of these Epoc. Period given 4390 years and 3 Months be subtracted the Residue shews the year since the Death of Alexander the Great To find out the Year since the Beginning of the Philippean Period several Months more must be subtracted And if the same Number of Years and Months be added to the year since the Beginning of these Epocha's the Product will be correspondent to the year of the Julian Period § 1. THere is some Dispute about the true About what time Alexander died time of the Death of Alexander the Great For A. Gellius allots no more than 11 years for the Reign of Alexander whereas (m) L. 15. Strabo accounts as many after his last Victory obtained against Darius But neither of these two are of sufficient Authority to counterbalance what has been said before concerning the true time of his Death § 2. It is also call'd in question whether his How Alexander died Death was occasioned by Poison or Debauchery Of the first Opinion is (n) L. 16. c. 16. Justin He was says he vanquished at last not by the Bravery of his Enemies but by the Perfidiousness of his own Friends and Subjects And Curtius (o) L. 10. says expressly It was believed that his Death was occasioned by Poison c. But (p) Vit. Alex. Plutarch says that this Account of his being made away by Poison was look'd upon as a Fiction because his Body shew'd not the least Marks of it after his Death tho' it laid several Days exposed to the Heat of the Sun whilst the Contentions lasted among the Generals § 3. After the Death of Alexander the whole The Change of Affairs after the Death of Alexander Body of this vast Empire was torn in many Pieces among which four Kingdoms are the most remarkable pursuant to the Vision of Daniel For Ptolemy seized Egypt Seleucus Babylon Antigonus the Lesser Asia and Antipater Macedonia and Greece § 4. The Histories of these Times make Mention of two Philips the first Philip the Son Who was that Philip that gave the Name to the Philippean Period of Amyntas II. Father to Alexander the Great the second Aridaeus the natural Brother of Alexander Scaliger Christmannus Serarius and others attribute the Origin of this Epocha to the first But the same having been unknown till after the Death of Alexander the Great it appears more probable to me that it owed its first Off-spring to Philip the Brother of Alexander who was born of Philinna a Thessalian Lady and Mistress

to K. Philip. See (q) L. 18. Bibl. Diod. Sicul. For the rest the Philippean Years were according to (r) De D. N. c. 21. Censorinus like the Nabonassarean Years CHAP. XXXII Of the Epocha of the Seleucides which is also called the Graecian and Alexandrian Epocha and of the Convenant and Therick DHILCARNAIN mentioned in the Book of the Maccabees 1. The Epocha of the Seleucides used especially among the Asiaticks owes its Name and Off-spring to Seleucus and has its Beginning at that time when the said Seleucus had made himself Master of Babylon and the Provinces of Media and Susa 2. Seleucus made himself Master of Babylon in the same Year that Polemus was Archon of Athens 3. In the same year that the 117th Olympiad was celebrated when Parmenio of Mitylene got the Victory in the Race 4. In the same year that L. Papyrius was the 5th time and C. Junius the 2 d time Roman Consuls All which Characters are related by (ſ) C. 69. Diod. Siculus 5. In the 148th year of the Graecian Epocha Judas the Maccabean did purge the Temple of Jerusalem after its Prophanation by the Gentiles (a) 1 Mac. 4. v. 52 53. which Restauration of the Temple hapned in the first year of the 145th Olympiad according to (b) L. 12. c. 11. Ant. Josephus 6. The 150th year of this same Epocha when Antiochus Eupator besieged Jerusalem was a Sabbatick Year (c) 1 Mac. 6. v. 53. (d) Jos L. 12. c. 14. 7. After the Death of Alexander the Great Onias the High-Priest ruled at jerusalem at which time Seleucus having made himself Master of Babylon reigned sole Monarch in Asia in the 12th year after the Death of Alexander 8. From Seleucus to account backwards to Cyrus are computed 248 years These two Characters are expressed in the same Words by (e) L. 8. 6. 2. demon Evang. Eusebius 9. The Year 1194 of the Epocha Therick Dhilcarnain which in the Nurenburg Edition of Albategnius illustrated with Notes by Joh. Regiomontanus is called ADILCANARI was coincident with the 1206th year since the Death of Alexander 10. The year 1202 of the same Epocha in which hapned a notable Eclipse of the Sun was 1214 after the Death of Alexander according to (f) C. 27. 10. Mahomet the Son of Cruen in his Book de Scien Stellar And it is manifest from the Astronomical Tables that the Eclipse of the year 1202 of the Epocha Therick Dhilcarnain is coincident with the year of Christ 891 the 8th day of August 11. Nothing certain is to be determined concerning the Months of the Years of this Epocha which are in the first Book of the Maccabees frequently begun with the Month of Nisan See 1 Mac. 7. v. 1. c. 9. v. 3. c. 10. v. 1 21. c. 13. v. 22 41. c. 16. v. 14. But in the 2 d Book of the Maccabeans and those of the Jewish Historians from the Month of Tisri From whence it appears that the Beginning of this Epocha is coincident with the year of the Julian Period 4402 Cycl ☉ 6. ☽ 13. and that the Author of the first Book of the Maccabeans speaks for the most part of the Vernal Season of this year in the 2 d of the Autumnal If therefore 4401 years and 3 Months be subtracted from any certain year of the Julian Any certain year given of the Jul. Period to find out the year since the beginning of this Epocha Period the Residue shews the year since the Beginning of the Graecian Epocha according to the first Book of the Maccabeans And if 4401 Years and 9 Months be subtracted in the same manner the Residue will be equivalent to the Number of years since the Beginning of the same Epocha according to the 2 d Book of the Maccabeans § 1. (g) Lib. 15. JVstin relates that this Seleucus was the Who was Seleucus that gave Birth to this Epocha Son of Apollo and Laodice After the Death of Alexander the Great when his Empire was divided among the Generals of his Army this Seleucus had Syria for his share but being forced from thence by King Antigonus he sought for Shelter by Ptolemy King of Egypt till returning at the Head of a considerable Army he made himself Master of Babylon in Remembrance of which this Epocha was instituted § 2. The Jews call this Epocha the Aera of The Jews call this Epocha the Aera ●f the Covenant or Principalities Contracts or Covenant or the Aera of Principalities because as they say when Alexander the Great after he had made himself Master of Persia marched towards Jerusalem with an Intention to destroy that City he was met by the High-Priest Simon who otherwise is called Jaddus who having prevailed with him to alter his Intentions upon this Condition that all the Sons of the Priests that were born in the same year should be called Alexanders This Epocha was from thence called the Epocha of Contracts or Covenants as may be seen in Wilhelmus Schickardus who in his Preface to the Tarich of the Persian Kings alledges the Words of Rabbi Abraham the Levite But (h) L. 10. de Doct. Temp c 42. Petavius deservedly ridicules the Ignorance of the Jewish Interpreters who pretend that the Beginning of this Epocha was at the time when Alexander had made himself Master of Asia whereas the same did not arise till 12 years after his Death and 18 years after his Interview with the High-Priest For which Reason I prefer the Opinion of those who call this Epocha the Aera of Principalities because after the Death of Alexander his Empire was divided into many Principalities § 3. The Arabians called this Epocha of Seleucus This Epocha is called Therick Dhilcarnain ●● the Arabians Therick Dhilcarnain and the Greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifies as much as the Horned Epocha Christmannus is of Opinion that the Arabians and Greeks have called Alexander the Horned as being Monarch both of Orient and Occident Wilhelmus Schickardus and others maintain that he was called thus because he vanquished Darius Codomannus who by (i) C. 8. Daniel is compared to a Ram. But Scaliger's Opinion seems to be preferr'd before the rest who derives this Denomination from thence that Alexander was reputed the true Son of Jupiter Ammon and the supposi●itious Son of Philip For according to Schickardus himself the Arabians used to call those that pimped for their Wives and educated Bastards under the Pretence of their own Children HORN-BEASTS § 4. Joseph Scaliger and (k) L. 10. c. 43. de Doct. Temp. Dionysius Petavius Whether the Author of the 2 Book of the Maccabeans begins always these Years from the Month Tisri maintain that the Author of the 2d Book of the Maccabeans constantly begins the Years of this Epocha with the Month Tisri but it being said in the 2d Book of the (l) C. 15. v. 37. Maccabeans that it was decreed that the 13th

Day of the 12th Month should be celebrated which Month is called in the Syrian Tongue ADAR this contradicts the Opinion of Scaliger and Petavius For if at that time the Month of ADAR was the last it follows that the Month of NISAN was the first they beginning their Year with the Spring For the rest those Authors who mention this Epocha make use sometimes of the Nabonassarean Years sometimes of the Julian Years of which see (m) L. 10. c. 40. de Doct. Temp. Dionysius Petavius CHAP. XXXIII Of the Epocha and time of the Asmoneans who were afterwards called Maccabeans 1. This Epocha must be regulated according to the true Succession of Mattathias Judas Maccabeus Jonathan Simon c. as expressed in the Books of the Maccabeans and by Josephus 2. Mattathias began to be famous about that time when Antioc Epipha 3. The same Mateathias died in the 146th year of the Graecian Epocha (a) 1 Mac. 2. v. 70. 4. In the 148th year of the same Epocha Judas Maccabeus Son of Mattathias rendred himself famous by restoring the Levitical Service among the Jews (b) 1 Mac 4. v. 52. 5. In the 152 d year of the Graecian Epocha Jud. Maccab. was slain in the Battle fought against Bacchides and was succeeded by his Brother Jonathan (c) 1 Mac. 9. v. 3. 18. 28. 6. Jonathan being murdered by the Treachery of Tryphon (d) 1 Mac. 12. v 48. Simon his Brother was made Prince over the Jews and fought with such Success against the Gentiles that it was under his Government said of the Jews (e) 1 Mac. 1● v. 41 42. In the 170th Year the Israelites were delivered from the Yoke imposed upon them by the Heathens And from that time on they used to write in their Inscriptions IN THE FIRST YEAR OF SIMON THE CHIEF HIGH-PRIEST GENERAL AND PRINCE OF THE JEWS 7. The 172 d year of the Graecian Epocha was coincident with the 3 d year of Simon the Chief High-Priest (f) 1 Mac. 1● v. 27. 8. The Epocha of Simon began with the Ecclesiastical Year or in the Spring (g) 1 Mac. 13. v. ●1 9. The last of the Asmonean Race was Antigonus the Son of Aristobulus the Brother of Hyrcanus whom Antonius caused to be nailed to the Cross which was the first Instance of that kind of Execution of a King among the Romans and after he had been well scourged to be strangled See (h) L. 14. Antiqu. c 29. Jos and (i) L. ●9 Dio. 10. The Government of the Asmoneans till the Death of Antigonus lasted 126 years and was succeeded by Herodes sirnamed the Great See (k) L. 14. c. ult L. 15. c. 1. Ant. L. 1. c. 13 de Bel. Jud. Jos and (l) L. 1. c. 3. de Excid Hierosol Hegesippus From these Characters it is evident that the Asmonean Race flourished about the year of the Julian Period 4548 Cycl ☉ 12. ☽ 7. at which time Mattathias died That in the 4549th year of the Julian Period Jud. Maccab. acquired immortal Glory among the Jews by restoring their publick Service and that he was slain in the year of the Julian Period 4555 And lastly that the Epocha of Simon had its Beginning in the year 4571 of the Julian Period How any certain year of the Julian Period may How to find out any year of these Epocha's be conveniently connected with the years of these Epocha's is sufficiently evident from what has been said upon this Point in the preceding Chapters to wit for the year since the Death of Mattathias must be subtracted 4547 years for the year since the Restauration of the Levitical Service by Judas 4548 years and for the year of the Epocha instituted in honour of Simon must be subtracted 4570 years and three Months c. § 1. THE Words of Josephus where he relates the Family of Mattathias being The Derivation of the Name of the Asmoneans ambiguous some have made the Word Asmonean a proper Name others an Appellative It is I think sufficient for us to know that the Word Asmonean signifies as much in the Hebrew as Great Men and Governours in which Sence it is explained by Rabbi Kimchi § 2. Many who insist upon the Promise of Of which Tribe the Asmoneans were descended the Scepter of Judah would have the Asmoneans descended from the Tribe of Judah of which Opinion are Genebrardus and Baronius But the last of these two has changed his Opinion in his last Edition of his Annals it being evident out of the Books of the Maccabeans (m) 1 Mac. 2. v. 1. c. 14. v. 29. that the Asmonean Family was descended from the Tribe of Levi which is likewise agreeable to the Genealogy of Josephus (n) L. 12. c. 8. What is alledged by some of the Asmonean Race to be descended on the Mother's side from the Family of David is of no great Consequence it being not customary among the Jews to let the Succession pass to the Females § 3. Judas the Son of Mattathias was the first How they were called Maccabeans afterwards who was sirnamed the Maccabean (o) 1 Mac. 2. v. 3. But concerning the Interpretation of this Word there are diverse Opinions (p) L. 3. Art Cab. Johan Reuchlinus and Serrarius would have it to have been an Inscription in the great Standard of Judah and to signifie as much as WHO IS LIKE UNTO THE LORD AMONGST THE GODS And that Judas from thence had received the Sirname of Maccabean But (q) L. 2. 13. misc Fullerus interprets it THROUGH ME IS THE PLAGUE to wit in Reference of the refractory Gentiles and Apostates § 4. Many Learned Men are of Opinion The Administration of the Government was in the Tribe of Levi before the Asmoneans that the supreme Administration of the Government among the Jews was not lodged in the Tribe of Levi till the time of the Asmonean Family but contrary to Truth For (r) L. 20. c. 8. Josephus says expresly that after the Return of the Jews to Jerusalem by the Command of Cyrus Jesus the Son of Josedec was High-Priest WHO says he AND WHOSE POSTERITY in all Fifteen governed the Jewish Commonwealth till the time of Antiochus Eupator St. Jerome (s) In Jer. c. 22. in Ez. c. 21. consents with Josephus and (t) In C. 1. Ez. Lyra has the following Words God governed his People after they had taken Possession of the Land of Promise by three different Forms of Government First by the Judges of which in the Book of the Judges Secondly by the Kings of which in the Book of the Kings Thirdly by the High-Priests from their Return out of the Babylonian Captivity till Christ And it is remarkable what is related by (u) L. 11. c. 8. Josephus that when Alexander the Great stood in need of the Assistance of the Jews at the Siege of Tyrus he directed his Letters written for that Purpose to Jaddua the