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NOTES AND QUERIES. or* s. v. FEB. 17, woo.
concomitants are of considerable importance
will, I imagine, be conceded. Jewish history
is of little or no use further down than the
period of the destruction of the Temple ; the
Greek and Roman accounts do not assist us
in these ages till the expedition of Xerxes
after which history is fairly clear. The
period from Nabonassar to Alexander the
Great allowed of adjustment to the Greek
and Roman, and the collateral history of the
Babylonians and Assyrians is thus settled
The Babylonish king Nabocalassarus is
admitted to be the Scriptural Nebuchad-
nezzar, and the first year of his reign is one
with the fourth of Jehoiakim (who was
earlier called Eliakim), which equals 4110 of
the Julian period, first year of the forty-fourth
Olympiad, and B.C. 601. Jehoiakim reigned
eleven years ;* he was killed in the seventh
year of Nebuchadnezzar ;t if, therefore, 7 be
deducted from 11, we have the years in which
Jehoiakim reigned previous to Nebuchad-
nezzar. From this time we are led to
Nabonassar and through the Persian empire
to its end. Hipparchus, if I mistake not,
who lived about 300 years before Ptolemy,
appeals to the era of Nabonassar as the
true register of astronomical observations.
By this it has been agreed that B.C. 747 was
the first of Nabonassar. The next basis upon
which time is calculated is the Olympiads,
which, by consonance of recognized authori-
ties, began in 776 B.C., which was the first of
the Olympiad periods, covering four years,
and upon which data I go so far as the
present subject is concerned. It was recently
stated (ante, p. 41) that A.D. 1 was the year
of Rome 753; on p. 84 A.D. is changed to B.C. 1.
A correction is always proper and welcome
when needed, but much confusion often
follows a correction which in turn requires
correcting. I will try to make the matter
plain, and prevent, I hope, additional con-
fusion, and, if possible, will not leave any
opening for doubt. Iphetus revived the
Olympiad in 755 B.C.; trie second Olympiad
consisted of four years, or, in other words,
the first two Olympiads covered a period of
five years. Rome was built at the beginning
of the seventh Olympiad, so the first Roman
year would equal the first year of that
Olympiad. It follows that the third year
of the 194th Olympiad and its equivalent
Roman year works out thus : From 193
there fall to be deducted six Olympiads (the
Roman year having begun in the seventh) ;
this leaves 187, which equals 747 Roman, but
we have to add three years, i. e., the three of
2 Kings xxiii. 36.
f Jeremiah lii. 28.
the 194th Olympiad, and we find 751, and the
year of Christ's birth ; ergo, 753 could not
be A.D. or B.C. 1. But let us apply another
test. The first Roman consuls were Brutus
and Collatinus, and all authorities of any
standing or importance, who have made the
subject their study, agree this was in the
year B.C. 508 or the Roman year 245 ; of this
there is, I believe, no doubt. This equals
the first year of the sixty-eighth Olympiad,
less the six years already explained, and we
have 62, which equals 248 Roman ; but we
have to deduct three years unexpired of
the sixty -eighth Olympiad, and have 245.
Turning to Nabonassar, we know he was
king B.C. 747, which equals the first of the
eighth Olympiad, and by this method of
calculation we have a further confirmation
of our thesis. Should more be required, -we
have it at least in part (ante, p. 41), already
called in question. There we are told
Lentulus and Piso were consuls in 753. So far
as my reading goes, Lentulus and Piso were
first joint consuls from January to July, 751 ;
lulius' and Paulus, January to July, 752;
Asiriius and Vinicius, January to July, 753.
Irrespective of this, enough has been set
down here to shake at least any faith in the
year 753 being either A.D. or B.C. 1.
ALFRED CHAS. JONAS.
WE must request correspondents desiring infor-
mation on family matters of only private interest
to affix their names and addresses to their queries,
in order that the answers may be addressed to
them direct.
"!N GORDANO." There are three parishes, all within the hundred of Portbury, in the county of Somerset, to the west of Bristol, which are particularized by this Latin addi- tion, namely, Easton-iri-Gordano, which gives a title to a prebend in the Cathedral Chapter of Bath and Wells ; Weston-in-Gordano, near "levedon, and Walton-in-Gordano, near the same place. What is the meaning of "in Gordano " ? A. L. MAYHEW.
Oxford.
LISTS OF NORTHERN FIGHTERS AT FLODDEN. Canon Tristram tells me that some years ago. when staying at Wolfelee, near Ha wick, with the late Sir Walter Elliot, he found in lis library a printed copy of the list of the neri of Northumberland called out by the Percies for the battle of Flodden. Search las recently been made at Wolfelee, both by Canon Tristram and others, for this volume,
