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 _Phœnicians_ begin presently after to sail as far as to the _Straights Mouth_, and beyond. _Æneas_ 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. _Mœris_ 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 _Mœris_, 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. _Mœris_ 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 _Æolic_ Migration. _Bœotia_, formerly called _Cadmeis_, is seized by the _Bœotians_. 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. 825. The _Heraclides_, after three Generations, or an hundred years, reckoned from their former expedition, return into _Peloponnesus_. Henceforward, to the end of the first _Messenian_ war, reigned ten Kings of _Sparta_ by one Race, and nine by another; ten of _Messene_, and nine of _Arcadia_: which, by reckoning (according to the ordinary course of nature) about twenty years to a Reign, one Reign with another, will take up about 190 years. And the seven Reigns more in one of the two Races of the Kings of _Sparta_, and eight in the other, to the battle at _Thermopylæ_; may take up 150 years more: and so place the return of the _Heraclides_, about 820 years before _Christ_. 824. _Cephren_ Reigns in _Egypt_, and builds another great Pyramid. 808. _Mycerinus_ Reigns there, and begins the third great Pyramid. He shut up the body of his daughter in a hollow ox, and caused her to be worshipped daily with odours. 804. The war, between the _Athenians_ and _Spartans_, in which _Codrus_, King of the _Athenians_, is slain. 801. _Nitocris_, the sister of _Mycerinus_, succeeds him, and finishes the third great Pyramid.