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Show a aaEnEP EEN ENE Geeneee - ns The fecind Bookeof the first part = a -- - Cuar.23.$.6. Cuari2aGy, renee meansthey vfed to make the Monethbegin with the new Moone,that the fifteenth day might be the full;1 haue fhewed in another place. Wherefore I may now returne vnto well to leadevs backe to the beginning of Corns 53s many the Like Obi tuations do, For if wee reckon vpwards from the time of Alexander, wee jn l finde allto agree with the yeeres ofthe Oljmpiads,whercin Cyrns beganhis teigne, eith "hae ‘ r taking the word Monarch,to fignifie aLord of many K ingd mes) as ag at Monatch. Fromthe the Kings of Juda,& leaue the metrie Greekes at their games, whom I thall meet in mere fetiousemployments, whenthe Perfian quarrels draw the bodie ofthis Hiftorie into the coafts of Jona and Hele/pont. beginning ofCyrws,inthe firft yeer ofthefiueandfiftieth 0: peel, ae the end of the VI. Perfian Empire,whichwasin the third of the hundreth and twelfth Olynipiad, wee inde vwvhich lafted but feuen yeeres, we finde compleat two hundred and feuen yeers,whichts vvas the continuance of the Perfiax Empire. , Nowtherefore feeing that the firft yeer of Cyrus hisMonarc hy(vvhich ‘Vvas the lat of the fixtieth O/jmpiad , andthetwo hundreth andfortieth yec re from the inftitution ofthofe games by /phitusfollowed the laftof the feuentyyeers of thecaptinityof fads and defolation ofthe Land ofJ/rae/ :manifeft it is,that vve muft rec kon bac kethofe fe uenty yeers,and one hundred threefcore and ten yeeres more, thelaft vhich paflednderthe Kings of Juda,to finde the firft of thefe Ofmpiads; vvhich bythis accomptisthe one and fiftieth of<ziah,as vve hauealreadynoted. ; The Eclipfes vyhereof we made mention, ferue vvell to the famepurp ofeFor exattle ples fake; that vvhich vvas feenewhen Xerxes muttered his Atmy atSardis, in thetwo n hundreththreefcore, and feuenth yeere of Nabona/far, beingthelat of the threelcore and fourteenth Olympiad; leades ys back ynto the beginning of Xerxes,andfrom himto Cyrus; whence we haue a faire way through the threefcore and ten yeeres, vato the deftruction of Ierafalem; and fo vpwardsthroughthe reignes of the laft Kings of Inds, to the one andfiftieth yeere of7zzée. Thus much mayfuffice, concerning the time wherein thefe O/ympiads began. sah Totell the great folemnity ofthem, and with what e xceeding great concoutleo Greece they were celebrated, Thold ita fuperfluous labour. It is enoughto fay that bodily exercifes, or themoft ofthem, were therein practifed; as Run ning, Weelthng i Fighting,andthe like. Neither did; they onely contendforthe Mafteryin tholeiefates, 5° [ C c the \ t whereofthere was good yfe, but in running of Chariots, fighting with Whiorle-bats, Me andotherthe like ancient kindes of exercifes, that ferned onelyfor oftentation.Thithet alfo repaired Orators, Poets, Muficians, ‘and all that thought themfelues eel : any laudable quality, to make triall of theirskill, Yeathe very Cryers which proc ie medthe viGoties, contended which ofthemfhould get the honourof hauingplaiat beft part. : ee The Eleans wete Prefidents of thofe Games ; whofeiuttice, in pronouncing bi partiality who didbeft,is highly commended.Asfor the rewards ginento the i ily they were noneother than Garlands of Palme,orOliue,without anyother eas idol following, than thereputation. Indeedethere needed no more. For that was io much, that when Diagoras had feene his three fonnes crownedfor their feueral oe ties in thofe games,one came running to himwiththis gratulation : Adorere, et won enim in celum afenfuruses sthat is, Die, Diagoras,for thon {halt wot cline, ‘allen wen: as ifthere could benogreater happineffe on carth,than what alreadyhadb™ him. Inthe like fenfe Horace {peakes ofthefe Victors,calling them, Horat.Carm, &q-Ode,2. precision them, which had wonnethefe Olympian prizes ; but euen thefecond of Pekah King of I/racl, was anointed King in Ierwfalem,his Father+ Kingx3,337 yet lining. "He built an exceeding high Gate to the Temple, of threefcore cubits vpright, and therefore called Ophed : befides diuers Cities in the Hills of Iuda, and in the Forrefts,Towers and Palaces: he inforced the Ammonites to pay him Tribute, to -Wit,of Siluer an hundrethtalents,and of Wheat and Barly two thoufand meafires : he reignedfixe and twentie yeares : ofwhom Jofepbus giues this teftimonic: Etu/modi vero Princeps hic fuit, vt nullumin co virtutis genus defideres: vt qui Deum adeo pid colucrit, hominibusfuis adeo infltprefucrit, orbem ipfam tanta [ibicura offe paffus fit, & tantopere auxeritwe vniner[um regnum hoflibus quidem minime contemnendum, domeflicis autem Cius incolis atqne cinibusfaclix,faufinm chfortunatumfa virtute offecerit; Thu was fach 4 Prince, a6 aman couldfinde nakinde of vertue wanting in hin shee worfbipped Godfo religioullyheconerned his men [orighteou/ly,he wasfo prowident for the Citie, and didfogreatly amplifie it, that by his vertue and[prome(fe he made bis whole Kingdome not contemptible tohis éneinies,but to his Seruants,lahabitants.and Citizens,profperousandbappie, Thisis‘all that I find of /otham: his reigne was not long,butas happiein al'things,as he himfelfe was deuout and vertuous. Auchomenes aboutthis time ficceeded Pheleftens in Corinth:after whom, the Corinthi- ans erected Magiftrates,which gouerned from yearetoyeare. Andyet Pan/eaiis in his Fr fecond Booke,with Strabo and Plutarch, iti manyplacessare of o pinion, That Corinth Was gouerned by Kings of the race of the Bacide, to the time of Cypfelws, who droue them our. Teglathphalaffar, orTiglathpelefer, the fon of Phul,the fecond ofthe Babylonians and Alfyrians that was ofthis new race, about this time inuaded Urael, while Pekah (Who , xin. 45, murthered his Mafter Pekaiah) was King therof.In which Expedition he tookemoftof the' Cities ofNephtati and Galile,with thofe of Gilead, ouer Jordan, and carried theinhabitants ca ptiue. This Tiglath reigned fiuc and twentyy ears,according to Ateta/thenes. But Xrentzhemius findes,that withhis fonne Salmanaffar he reigned yettwo yeares lan« B¢t: which yeares I would not afcribe tothe fonne, becaufethe deraof Nabonaffar €gins with his fingle reigne,but reckon themto Tiglath Phulaffar him{elfe,wh o therewith reigned 27.yeares to Enjebins. But therein furely Ew/ebinsis miftaken: for Diodore,Plutarch,Panfamias, andoPén/3: others witneife the Contrary. Pan/ania affirmeth, That Polyderus,a Prince ofeminent royall companion. Empire, and of the Citie ofNisenewhich fucceeded({aith Jofephus)a hundred & fifteen: 5 yeares after. The Cities of Cyremeand of Aradus were built at this time,while in Media; Sofartsns 2nd Medidas reigned, being the feconda nd third Kings of thofe parts. cutee thatfo highly thar they efteemiedit almoftas great an honour, to haue wonne the Victory2 or Wrattling in thofe games,as to haue triumphed in Rome for fome famous and VP That thefe Olympian games were celebrated at the fill ofthe Moone, an¢ fifte ~~ Afchylus.thefonne of.Agamnestor,about the fametime,the twelfth Archonin Athens, tuled 25 ‘Years. Alcamencs soucrned Sparga:after whom, the Eftate changed, according Atthis timelined Wehumsthe P rophet,who fore-told the deftru@ion ofthe Afjrian orians thous matter worthy. oftheir noting. Such was (as Tay counts it) thevat nity ofthe. LY conquctt ofa Prouince. ; ‘ i [e« the fonne of Vzzich, when he was fiue and twenty yeeres old, and in which was ended by Theopompus.the forine of Nicander,his Suchaslike heauenly wights doe come With an Elzan Garland home. TwllinOrat. ° Of lotham aad bis Contemporaries. vertues,fucceededhis father,and reigned 60.years,and out-liued the Ateffemiack warre: Quos Elea domum reducit Palma ceeleftes. Neitherwasit only the voice ofthe People,or fongs of P ofthe Fiftorie ofthe Porld. fifteenth day ofthe Moneth Hecatombeon, which doth anfwerto out Iune s and what all td otf reckoning:Sois the death OfAlexaniler fer byall gor od Wi ite r8.ifithe fit yeer ofthehundreth and fourteenth O/ympiad, This'later nore E Alexanders Ae ath, ferueth two hundred andthirty yeeres compleat : fromthe beginning of Cyrushis Mornarchiy, > §. VIL OfAchaz znd his Contemporaries. Has,or Achaz,faceceded vito forham in the f{euenteenth yeere of Peka, the for OF Rematia? the Lime being alfo the yeere of his fathers 1 cigne, who began inthe {Econdof the fame Pekajandlaft reigned r6.but not Compleat yeeges. ‘This . € ee Maz |