Diogenes Laertius' whole figure is 48,863 years, which contains for its fictitious part _thirty_ times 1461 = 43,830, which, being deducted from 48,863, 43,830 ------ 5,033 leaves 5033 for "true human time." Now 5033 years are equal to those 2922 years + 217 years + 1881 years, which alone in the Chronicle belong properly and originally to the xiii gods and viii demigods and the last xv dynasties of the kings from Menes to Nectanebo, with only thirteen surplus years, _i.e._ from the conquest of Darius Ochus to Alexander; "seemingly to the autumn of B.C. 332, when he first entered Egypt." Here I might conclude my outline of Mr Palmer's scheme, so far as is necessary to the vindication of the Chronicle as against Bunsen, were it not for the remaining figure (all the others, if the reader will refer back, have been accounted for)--viz. 184, to which Bunsen refers. This figure is shown to correspond with the 184 years of the Hyksos or Shepherds (i. 134, 135, _et seq._, 155, 285, 299). Dynasty XXVII., to which the 184 years in the Chronicle are attributed, has been displaced from between Dynasties XVII. and XVIII. of the Chronicle, and its 184 years are "restored to their true place and to the Shepherds by Manetho," and are given "by the Theban priests, _i.e._ by Eratosthenes, suppressing the Shepherds, to the kings of Upper Egypt." As regards Manetho (i. 284) "having, besides the 1881 years of the Chronicle, 1674 additional years of kings, of which (22 + 217 = ) 239 only are in themselves, though not in their attributions, chronological, and having given of these 1491 (which are thrice 477 and 60 over) to his six early dynasties of _Lower_ Egypt (and sixteen inconvenient years he isolated between his Dynasties XIV. and XV., so as to include them in his Book i.), he gave to the three early dynasties of _Upper_ Egypt _no other unchronological years_ than two complementary sums, the one of 43 (to the first), and the other, of 124 years, to the second of the three dynasties, that these same sums might both coalesce with the remainder of sixty years belonging to the sum of the six dynasties of Lower Egypt, so as to make with it, or rather to indicate, the one of them the sum of 103, the other the sum of 184." _Vide_ table, p. 285.... Sum of six dynasties of Lower Egypt, 1491. But this sum 1491 is equivalent to 190 + 103 + 184 = 477 190 + 103 + 184 = 477 190 + 103 + 184 = 477 ---- But 60 (1431 + 60) = 1491 43 ---- (1431 + 60) + 43 = 103 (43 of Dyn. XIV. of Upper Egypt.) (1431 + 60) 124 ---- 184 (124 of Dyn. XV. of Upper Egypt in Book ii.)