Yahuds answered: “His blood be on us and on our children.” On that account, the Yahuds are oppressed and curbed down, in retribution of their iniquities. When they had placed the cross upon the shoulder of Aísiá, and led him to die, a woman wiped with the border of her garment the face, full of blood, of the Lord Aîsîa; verily, she obtained three images of it, and carried them home: the one of these images exists still in Ispániah, in the royal town which is situated within the country of the king of Portugal; and is shown there twice every year:[494] the other is in the town of Milan, in the country of Italy, and the third in the city of Rome. [488] _Tarsa_ is derived from _tarsiden_, “fearing, timid, a Christian, an infidel, a pagan, a worshipper of fire.” [489] Upon the epoch of the creation of the world we have, according to Riccioli, 70, according to Dortous de Mairan, 75 or 90, and according to the marquis de Fortia d’Urban, 108 different systems, to which many more may be added. These epochs vary from 6984 to 3619 years; that of the Dabistan, 3199, is the lowest known to me. [490] The deluge is placed: By the Septuaginta 2250 years before Christ. ―― Archbishop Usher 2348 ―― ―― ―― ―― Others 3882 ―― ―― ―― [491] The above epoch differs 94 years from that given by Archbishop Usher, viz.: 1921 years before Christ. [492] The above epoch differs 19 years from that given by Archbishop Usher, viz.: 1510 years before Christ. [493] The date of the birth of Christ, as given by our chronologers, varies from 747 to 754 years after the building of Rome, or is uncertain within seven or six years (see Chronologie de Jésus-Christ par M. le marquis de Fortia, p. 102-103, Paris, 1830).