From the rise of Artaxerxes to the death of Yezdejerd the House of Sasan reigned in Iran for 19 generations and 426 years.

Yezdejerd after his defeat in the 15th year of the Hejira A D. 636 retired into Carmania Sigistan and Khorasan till the 31st year A. D. 652, when he was betrayed and slain. His flight and death are related by Abulpharajius p. 116.

D'Herbelot p. 449 determines the era from the beginning of his reign: "C'est au commencement du règne de ce prince que l'on doit fixer l'époque "de l'Ere-Jezdégirdique, et non pas au temps de sa défaite à Cadesie ni "à sa mort en Khorasan."

§ 7. GREEK AUTHORS.

The catalogue of Greek authors contains those who are recorded in the Tables, from the death of Augustus to the death of Heraclius. To these are added many names omitted in the Tables, but inserted here among their contemporaries. The series of Greek writers includes authors in various departments, poets, historians, sophists, orators, and in the different schools of philosophy stoics, peripatetics, Platonists, and others. But it seemed convenient and useful to place them all in one chronological series, rather than to class them according to their several subjects.

1 Eudorus Peripateticus. Contemporary with Strabo. 2 Ariston Peripateticus. Also contemporary with Strabo. 3 Alexander Ægæus. The disciple of Sosigenes, who flourished in B. C. 45.

4 Chæremon stoicus: the preceptor of Tiberius. He was also the preceptor of Dionysius of Alexandria, who succeeded him and flourished in the reign of Nero.

5 Apion: A. D. 40. See F. H. III Greek authors No 246. 6 Apollonides Nicæus: flourished in the time of Tiberius. See F. H. III Greek authors No 247.

7 Thrasyllus A.D. 36. See F. H. III Greek authors No 244. 8 Euthydemus rhetor: A. D. 17. Taught Apollonius Tyaneus about A. D. 12.

9 Amarantus Alexandrinus. After Juba (F. H. III Greek authors No 231) and before Athenæus.

10 Philo Judæus: A. D. 35. 40.

11 Dioscorides Anazarbeus medicus.

Contemporary with

Lecanius Bassus, who was consul in A. D. 64, and who died when Pliny wrote the 26th book of his Natural History; that is, between A. D. 72 and 79. Dioscorides composed his work in mature, perhaps in advanced age.

12 Andromachus. The chief Physician of Nero.

13 Erotianus. Contemporary with Andromachus, whom he addresses in his preface.

14 Pamphila A. D. 58.

15 Moderatus Pythagoreus: flourished in the reign of Nero ; for the disciple of Moderatus was the companion of Plutarch.

16 Thallus: flourished after Ol. 102, which he mentioned, and before Theophilus of Antioch A. D. 181, who quotes Thallus.

17 Heraclides grammaticus: A. D. 55.

18 Ammonius. The preceptor of Plutarch: A. D. 66. 67. 19 Agathinus medicus. The preceptor of Herodotus (No 27). 20 Josephus. Born A. D. 38, at Rome in 64, in the Jewish war in 67; finished his Antiquities in 93. A short account of the times of the Maccabees, and of the family of Josephus is given in F. Rom. Vol. 2 p. 267 note p. 21 Musonius Rufus stoicus: A.D. 66. 69. 74. F. Rom. Vol. 2 p. 268.

22 Apollonius Tyaneus. Nearly 20 years of age in A. D. 17, in the East in 45-48. For Apollonius in the reign of Nero see A.D. 61-68. He visited Egypt in 69, Ethiopia in 70, Cilicia in 71, Ephesus in 95. 96. His death is described in A. D. 97.

23 Damis. The companion of Apollonius: A. D. 45. Damis flourished A. D. 42-97.

24 Dionysius Alexandrinus: a grammarian, son of Glaucus. He flourished from the reign of Nero to the time of Trajan, was the disciple of the philosopher Chæremon, and the preceptor of Parthenius, a grammarian mentioned by Athenæus.

25 Euphrates: A. D. 69. 119.

Contemporary with Apollo

nius of Tyana and with Dio Prusæus.

26 Dio Prusæus: A. D. 69. 90. 96. 99.

27 Herodotus medicus. The disciple of Agathinus. He preceded Crito; and Crito flourished in the reign of Trajan.

28 Marinus medicus. The preceptor of Quintus (No 39). 29 Rufus Ephesius medicus. Contemporary with Crito in the reign of Trajan.

30 Crito medicus. Contemporary with Rufus Ephesius. Often quoted by Galen.

31 Demetrius cynicus. Already known in 39.

At Corinth

in 61. Present at the death of Thrasea in 66. In Greece

in 68, at Rome in 71, banished with other philosophers by Vespasian about A. D. 74. In Italy in 93.

32 Plutarchus. A youth in 66.

of Trajan see A. D. 98. 106.

For Plutarch in the reign

His treatise περὶ τοῦ μὴ

Xpâv čμμerpa is at A. D. 80, his work de primo frigido at 106, his Lives are described at 110. 113. He is mentioned as still living in 120.

33 Nicetes Smyrnæus: A. D. 97. The preceptor of Scopelianus. See A. D. 93.

34 Elianus tacticus: A. D. 97.

35 Ptolemæus Chennus, a grammarian of Alexandria: flourished in the reigns of Trajan and Hadrian.

36 Zenobius sophista: taught at Rome in the reign of Hadrian.

37 Isæus A. D. 101. Specimens of his style are given by Philostratus.

38 Ardys: A. D. 101.

39 Quintus medicus: A. D. 147. The disciple of Marinus and the preceptor of Satyrus.

40 Sabinus medicus Hippocrateus: A. D. 147.

The pre

ceptor of Stratonicus. Mentioned with Rufus Ephesius (No 29) by Galen.

41 Adrastus Aphrodisiensis peripateticus. Preceded Galen. The works of Adrastus were read by Plotinus, and by Theon of Smyrna, who flourished A. D. 128-133.

42 Artemon of Cassandrea. After Dionysius Scytobrachion and before Athenæus.

43 Apollodorus Pergamenus: A. D. 114.

44 Dorotheus Ascalonita: flourished before Athenæus and after the grammarians Trypho and Aristonicus, who lived in the reign of Augustus, and whom Dorotheus quotes.

45 Hermogenes Tarsensis historicus. Put to death by Domitian.

46 Scopelianus: A. D. 93. See A. D. 45. 133.

47 Timocrates Heracleota. Contemporary with Demonax (see No 57) and Scopelianus. Taught Polemo: see A. D. 138. and Lesbonax (No 148).

48 Agrippa. An observation recorded by Ptolemy was made by Agrippa in Bithynia 29 Nov. 92.

49 Justus Tiberiensis: A. D. 98. His history ended at the

3rd year of Trajan A. D. 100.

50 Valerius Pollio: A. D. 118.

51 Dionysius Milesius: A. D. 101. 119. See A. D. 239. 52 Dorion. Contemporary with Dionysius of Miletus: lived at Sardis in the time of Hadrian.

53 Epictetus: withdrew to Nicopolis. See A. D. 90. Taught there in 103. Favoured by Hadrian: see A. D. 118.

54 Heliodorus philosophus: A. D. 118.

55 Caius Platonicus. His disciples were heard by Galen in

144.

56 Aspasius peripateticus. Contemporary with Caius the Platonist, and with Herminus.

57 Herminus peripateticus: was the preceptor of Alexander Aphrodisiensis, and was contemporary with Demonax, whose death is recorded by Lucian. Herminus the peripatetic flourished cir. A. D. 150.

Demonax, with whom Lucian was long acquainted, conversed with the following persons who are named by Lucian in his Life of Demonax: Agathobulus, Demetrius, and Epictetus the philosophers; Timocrates of Heraclea ; Favorinus the sophist; Peregrinus, Herodes Atticus (whose wife Regilla died before Demonax), Agathocles, and Herminus the peripatetics; Apollonius a philosopher. Demonax lived to near 100 years of age.

58 Philo Byblius: A. D. 47. 124. He rendered Sanchoniatho into Greek. From the work of Philo Porphyry quotes Sanchoniatho; and Athenæus probably derived his knowledge of Sanchoniatho from Philo Byblius.

Lobeck Aglaopham. p. 1265–1272 surveys the whole question of the genuineness of Sanchoniatho, and states the arguments on both sides, shewing by many sufficient reasons that the works ascribed to him are spurious.

In the extract from Sanchoniatho according to Philo mention is made of Hesiod and the cyclic poets, authors of the Theogonies, and Gigantomachiæ and Titanomachiæ. This passage proves, either that Sanchoniatho is altogether spurious, or that Philo added and interpolated, and that what he published was not the genuine work of Sanchoniatho.