others being confounded with one another: and their Chronology of this Dynasty is still worse; for to the first King they assign a Reign of 120 years, to the second a Reign of 150 years, to the third a Reign of 60 years, to the fourth a Reign of 120 years, to the fifth as much, and to the sixth a Reign of 112 years. This Dynasty being the Monarchy of the _Medes_, and _Persians_; the Dynasty of the _Pischdadians_ which immediately preceded it, must be that of the _Assyrians_: and according to the oriental historians this was the oldest Kingdom in the world, some of its Kings living a thousand years a-piece, and one of them Reigning five hundred years, another seven hundred years, and another a thousand years. We need not then wonder, that the _Egyptians_ have made the Kings in the first Dynasty of their Monarchy, that which was seated at _Thebes_ in the days of _David_, _Solomon_, and _Rehoboam_, so very ancient and so long lived; since the _Persians_ have done the like to their Kings, who began to Reign in _Assyria_ two hundred years after the death of _Solomon_; and the _Syrians_ of _Damascus_ have done the like to their Kings _Adar_ and _Hazael_, who Reigned an hundred years after the death of _Solomon_, _worshipping them as Gods, and boasting their antiquity, and not knowing_, saith _Josephus_, _that they were but modern_. And whilst all these nations have magnified their Antiquities so exceedingly, we need not wonder that the _Greeks_ and _Latines_ have made their first Kings a little older than the truth. * * * * * FINIS. * * * * * Notes. [1] _In the life of_ Lycurgus. [2] In the life of _Solon_. [3] Herod. l. 2. [4] Plutarch. de Pythiæ Oraculo. [5] Plutarch. in Solon [6] Apud Diog. Laert. in Solon p. 10. [7] Plin. nat. hist. l. 7. c. 56. [8] Ib. l. 5. c. 29. [9] Cont. Apion. sub initio. [10] In Ακουσιλαος. [11] Joseph. cont. Ap. l. 1. [12] Dionys. l. 1. initio. [13] Plutarch. in Numa. [14] Diodor. l. 16. p. 550. Edit. Steph. [15] Polyb. p. 379. B. [16] In vita Lycurgi, sub initio. [17] In Solone. [18] Plutarch. in Romulo & Numa. [19] In Æneid. 7. v. 678. [20] Diodor. l. 1. [21] Plutarch. in Romulo. [22] Lib. I. in Proæm. [23] Plutarch. in Lycurgo sub initio. [24] Pausan. l. 4. c. 13. p. 28. & c. 7. p. 296 & l. 3. c. 15. p. 245. [25] Pausan. l. 4. c. 7. p. 296. [26] Herod. l. 7. [27] Herod. l. 8. [28] Plato in Minoe. [29] Thucyd. l. 1. p. 13. [30] Athen. l. 14 p. 605 [31] Pausan. l. 5. c. 8. [32] Pausan. l. 6. c. 19. [33] Plutarch. de Musica. Clemens Strom. l. 1. p. 308. [34] Herod. l. 6. c. 52. [35] Pausan. l. 5. c. 4. [36] Pausan. l. 5. c. 1, 3, 8. Strabo, l. 8, p. 357. [37] Pausan. l. 5. c.4. [38] Pausan. l. 5. c.18. [39] Solin. c. 30. [40] Dionys. l. 1. p. 15. [41] Apollon. Argonaut. l. 1. v. 101. [42] Plutarch. in Theseo. [43] Diodor. l. 1. p. 35. [44] Joseph. Antiq. l. 4. c. 8 [45] Contra Apion. l. 1.