_Æsculapius_ and _Hercules_ were _Argonauts_, and _Hippocrates_ was the eighteenth inclusively by the father's side from _Æsculapius_, and the nineteenth from _Hercules_ by the mother's side: and because these Generations, being taken notice of by writers, were most probably by the principal of the family, and so for the most part by the eldest sons; we may reckon about 28 or at the most about 30 years to a Generation. And thus the seventeen intervals by the father's side, and eighteen by the mother's, will at a middle reckoning amount unto about 507 years: which counted backwards from the beginning of the _Peloponnesian_ war, at which time _Hippocrates_ began to flourish, will reach up to the 43d year after the death of _Solomon_, and there place the _Argonautic_ expedition. When the _Romans_ conquered the _Carthaginians_, the Archives of _Carthage_ came into their hands: And thence _Appian_, in his history of the _Punic_ wars, tells in round numbers that _Carthage_ stood seven hundred years: and [39] _Solinus_ adds the odd number of years in these words: _Adrymeto atque Carthagini author est a Tyro populus. Urbem istam, ut Cato in Oratione Senatoria autumat; cum rex Hiarbas rerum in Libya potiretur, Elissa mulier extruxit, domo Phœnix & Carthadam dixit, quod Phœnicum ore exprimit civitatem novam; mox sermone verso Carthago dicta est, quæ post annos septingentos triginta septem exciditur quam fuerat extructa_. _Elissa_ was _Dido_, and _Carthage_ was destroyed in the Consulship of _Lentulus_ and _Mummius_, in the year of the _Julian Period_ 4568; from whence count backwards _737_ years, and the _Encænia_ or Dedication of the City, will fall upon the 16th year of _Pygmalion_, the brother of _Dido_, and King of _Tyre_. She fled in the seventh year of _Pygmalion_, but the _Æra_ of the City began with its _Encænia_. Now _Virgil_, and his Scholiast _Servius_, who might have some things from the archives of _Tyre_ and _Cyprus_, as well as from those of _Carthage_, relate that _Teucer_ came from the war of _Troy_ to _Cyprus_, in the days of _Dido_, a little before the Reign of her brother _Pygmalion_; and, in conjunction with her father, seized _Cyprus_, and ejected _Cinyras_: and the Marbles say that _Teucer_ came to _Cyprus_ seven years after the destruction of _Troy_, and built _Salamis_; and _Apollodorus_, that _Cinyras_ married _Metharme_ the daughter of _Pygmalion_, and built _Paphos_. Therefore, if the _Romans_, in the days of _Augustus_, followed not altogether the artificial Chronology of _Eratosthenes_, but had these things from the records of _Carthage_, _Cyprus_, or _Tyre_; the arrival of _Teucer_ at _Cyprus_ will be in the Reign of the predecessor of _Pygmalion_: and by consequence the destruction of _Troy_, about 76 years later than the death of _Solomon_.