_Xerxes_, and one or two years more for the war of the _Heraclides_, and Reign of _Aristodemus_, the father of _Eurysthenes_ and _Procles_; and they will place the Return of the _Heraclides_ into _Peloponnesus_, 159 years after the death of _Solomon_, and 46 years before the first Olympiad, in which _Coræbus_ was victor. But the followers of _Timæus_ have placed this Return two hundred and eighty years earlier. Now this being the computation upon which the _Greeks_, as you have heard from _Diodorus_ and _Plutarch_, have founded the Chronology of their Kingdoms, which were ancienter than the _Persian_ Empire; that Chronology is to be rectified, by shortening the times which preceded the death of _Cyrus_, in the proportion of almost two to one; for the times which follow the death of _Cyrus_ are not much amiss. The Artificial Chronologers, have made _Lycurgus_, the legislator, as old as _Iphitus_, the restorer of the Olympiads; and _Iphitus_, an hundred and twelve years, older than the first Olympiad: and, to help out the Hypothesis, they have feigned twenty eight Olympiads older than the first Olympiad, wherein _Coræbus_ was victor. But these things were feigned, after the days of _Thucydides_ and _Plato_: for _Socrates_ died three years after the end of the _Peloponnesian_ war, and _Plato_ [28] introduceth him saying, that _the institutions of _Lycurgus_ were but of three hundred years standing, or not much more_. And [29] _Thucydides_, in the reading followed by _Stephanus_, saith, that _the _Lacedæmonians_, had from ancient times used good laws, and been free from tyranny; and that from the time that they had used one and the same administration of their commonwealth, to the end of the _Peloponnesian_ war, there were three hundred years and a few more_. Count three hundred years back from the end of the _Peloponnesian_ war, and they will place the Legislature of _Lycurgus_ upon the 19th Olympiad. And, according to _Socrates_, it might be upon the 22d or 23d. _Athenæus_ [30] tells us out of ancient authors (_Hellanicus_, _Sosimus_ and _Hieronymus_) that _Lycurgus_ the Legislator, was contemporary to _Terpander_ the Musician; and that _Terpander_ was the first man who got the victory in the _Carnea_, in a solemnity of music instituted in those festivals in the 26th Olympiad. He overcame four times in those _Pythic_ games, and therefore lived at least 'till the 29th Olympiad: and beginning to flourish in the days of _Lycurgus_, it is not likely that _Lycurgus_ began to flourish, much before the 18th Olympiad. The name of _Lycurgus_ being on the Olympic Disc, _Aristotle_ concluded thence, that _Lycurgus_ was the companion of _Iphitus_, in restoring the Olympic games: and this argument might be the ground of the opinion of Chronologers, that _Lycurgus_ and _Iphitus_ were contemporary. But _Iphitus_ did not restore all the Olympic games. He [31] restored indeed the Racing in the first Olympiad, _Coræbus_ being victor. In the 14th