Azariah, also called Uzziah, governing the affairs of the Hebrews, and Arbaces of the Medes, and Proca Silvius of the Latins. 1.14 Therefore, from the capture of Ilium up to the first Olympiad, four hundred and five years are reckoned, and from the birth of Moses until the same first Olympiad, eight hundred and fifteen years. In the first Olympiad, Arctinus the Milesian epic poet is said to have lived, and both Romus and Romulus were born, while Jotham was king of Judea, and Pekah of Israel. In the ninth Olympiad, they say that Eumelus the epic poet was born, and the Erythraean sibyl. In the seventeenth Olympiad, they say that the sibyl whom they also called Herophile was born. In the twenty-third Olympiad, they say Archilochus was born, while Manasseh was governing the power of the Jews. In the twenty-ninth Olympiad, they say Hipponax and Simonides became known, and Aristoxenus the musician. In the thirty-fifth Olympiad, Thales of Miletus, son of Examyas, is said to have been born, the first natural philosopher, and they say his life extended until the fifty-eighth Olympiad. In the thirty-sixth Olympiad, the divine Jeremiah prophesied in Judea, and also Zephaniah. In the forty-second Olympiad, Alcmaeon and Pittacus of Mytilene of the seven sages, and in addition to these also Stesichorus the poet, were known. And around these very times lived the blessed Daniel and his companions. 1.15 In the forty-sixth Olympiad, Solon legislated, having abolished the laws of Draco except for those concerning homicide. In the forty-ninth Olympiad, while the Jews were in Babylon, that is, in the mountains of the Persians and Medes (for they had become captives), Daniel and Ezekiel prophesied among them. In the fiftieth Olympiad, the seven sages and Anaximander the Milesian, a natural philosopher, became known. In the fifty-sixth Olympiad, while Cyrus governed the power of the Persians, Haggai and Zechariah prophesied, and Simonides and Chilon, who were of the seven sages, were already well-known. In the fifty-eighth Olympiad, Theognis the poet was renowned. In the fifty-ninth Olympiad, Ibycus the lyric poet and Pherecydes the historian and Phocylides and Xenophanes, writers of tragedies, lived. In the sixty-second Olympiad, Pythagoras is said to have been born. In the seventieth Olympiad, they say Democritus and Anaxagoras, natural philosophers, were born, and together with them Heraclitus, surnamed the Obscure. In the seventy-fourth, Phrynichus and Choerilus and Diagoras, natural philosophers. In the eighty-sixth Olympiad, they say were born Democritus of Abdera, and Empedocles and Hippocrates, and Prodicus, Zeno and Parmenides. In the eighty-eighth Olympiad, they say the comedian Aristophanes, and Eupolis and Plato were born. In the one hundred and third Olympiad, they say Aristotle was a student of Plato, being of a very young age. In the one hundred and twelfth Olympiad, they say Alexandria in Egypt was founded, in the seventh year of the reign of Alexander; and at that time the philosophers Anaximenes and Epicurus were born. 1.16 In the one hundred and twenty-fourth Olympiad, while Ptolemy surnamed Philadelphus was king of Egypt, they say Sarapis came to Alexandria from Sinope, and that he was the same as Pluto; whence also a temple was built for the statue, which the Egyptians in their native tongue also call Rakotis, signifying by this nothing other than Pluto; for this very reason they made the temple neighboring the tombs. But the account concerning him is disputed among the Greeks; for some do not think he is Pluto, but rather Osiris, and others, Apis. Since there was much dispute about this, therefore, they set up, they say, the idol as if by a single agreement

διέποντος τὰ Ἑβραίων Ἀζαρίου τοῦ καὶ Ὀζίου, Μήδων δὲ Ἀρβάκη, Λατίνων δὲ Πρόκα Σιλουίου. 1.14 Συνάγονται τοίνυν καὶ τὰ ἀπὸ Ἰλίου ἁλώσεως μέχρι τῆς πρώτης ὀλυμπιάδος ἔτη πέντε καὶ τετρακόσια, ἀπὸ δὲ τῆς Μωσέως γενέσεως ἕως τῆς αὐτῆς πρώτης ὀλυμπιάδος πεντεκαίδεκα ἔτη καὶ ὀκτακόσια. Πρώτῃ ὀλυμπιάδι, Μιλήσιος ἐποποιὸς Ἀρκτῖνος λέγεται γεγονέναι, καὶ Ῥῶμος καὶ Ῥωμύλος ἐγενέσθην, βασιλεύοντος τῆς Ἰουδαίας Ἰωάθαμ, τοῦ δὲ Ἰσραὴλ Φακεέ. Ἐννάτηὀλυμπιάδι Εὔμηλον ἐποποιὸν γενέσθαι φασί, καὶ σίβυλλαν τὴν Ἐρυθραίαν. Ἑπτακαιδεκάτῃ ὀλυμπιάδι σιβύλλαν ἣν καὶ Ἡροφίλαν ὠνόμαζον γενέσθαι φασίν. Εἰκοστῇ τρίτῃ ὀλυμπιάδι φασὶ γενέσθαι Ἀρχίλοχον, τὰ Ἰουδαίων κράτη διέποντος Μανασσῆ. Εἰκοστῇ ἐννάτῃ ὀλυμπιάδι Ἱππώνακτα καὶ Σιμωνίδην φασὶ γνωρίζεσθαι, καὶ τὸν μουσικὸν Ἀριστόξενον. Τριακοστῇ πέμπτῃ ὀλυμπιάδι Θαλῆς Ἐξαμύου Μιλήσιος πρῶτος φυσικὸς φιλόσοφος γενέσθαι λέγεται, παρατεῖναι δὲ τὴν ζωὴν αὐτοῦ φασιν ἕως πεντηκοστῆς ὀγδόης ὀλυμπιάδος. Τριακοστῇ ἕκτῃ ὀλυμπιάδι προεφήτευον ἐν τῇ Ἰουδαίᾳ ὁ θεσπέσιος Ἰερεμίας, ἔτι τε καὶ Σοφονίας. Τεσσαρακοστῇ δευτέρᾳ ὀλυμπιάδι Ἀλκμαίων καὶ Πιττακὸς ὁ ἐκ Μιτυλήνης τῶν ἑπτὰ σοφῶν, καὶ πρὸς τούτοις ἔτι Στησίχορος ὁ ποιητὴς ἐγνωρίζετο. Κατ' αὐτοὺς δὲ τούτους τοὺς καιροὺς γεγόνασιν οἱ περὶ τὸν μακάριον ∆ανιήλ. 1.15 Τεσσαρακοστῇ ἕκτῃ ὀλυμπιάδι Σόλων νενομοτέθηκε, τοὺς ∆ράκοντος νόμους περιελὼν πλὴν τῶν φονικῶν. Τεσσαρακοστῇ ἐννάτῃ ὀλυμπιάδι, Ἰουδαίων ὄντων ἐν Βαβυλῶνι, ἤτοι ἐν ὄρεσι Περσῶν καὶ Μήδων (γεγόνασι γὰρ αἰχμάλωτοι), προεφήτευον παρ' αὐτοῖς ∆ανιὴλ καὶ Ἰεζεκιήλ. Πεντηκοστῇ ὀλυμπιάδι ἐγνωρίσθησαν οἱ ἑπτὰ σοφοὶ καὶ ὁ Μιλήσιος Ἀναξίμανδρος, φιλόσοφος φυσικός. Πεντηκοστῇ ἕκτῃ ὀλυμπιάδι, Κύρου διέποντος τὰ κράτη Περσῶν, προεφήτευον Ἀγγαῖος καὶ Ζαχαρίας, γνώριμοι δὲ ἦσαν ἤδη Σιμωνίδης καὶ Χίλων, τῶν ἑπτὰ σοφῶν ὄντες. Πεντηκοστῇ ὀγδόῃ ὀλυμπιάδι Θέογνις ποιητὴς ὠνομάζετο. Πεντηκοστῇ ἐννάτῃ ὀλυμπιάδι Ἰβυκὸς ὁ μελοποιὸς καὶ Φερεκύδης ὁ ἱστοριογράφος καὶ Φωκυλίδης καὶ Ξενοφάνης, τραγῳδιῶν ποιηταί, γεγόνασι. Ἑξηκοστῇ δευτέρᾳ ὀλυμπιάδι Πυθαγόρας γενέσθαι λέγεται. Ἑβδομηκοστῇ ὀλυμπιάδι φασὶ γενέσθαι ∆ημόκριτον καὶ Ἀναξαγόραν, φιλοσόφους φυσικούς, ὁμοῦ τε καὶ Ἡράκλειτον τὸν ἐπίκλην σκοτεινόν. Ἑβδομηκοστῇ τετάρτῃ Φρύνιχος καὶ Χοιρίλος καὶ ∆ιαγόρας, φιλόσοφοι φυσικοί. Ὀγδοηκοστῇ ἕκτῃ ὀλυμπιάδι γενέσθαι φασὶ τὸν Ἀβδηρίτην ∆ημόκριτον, Ἐμπεδοκλέα τε καὶ Ἱπποκράτην, καὶ Πρόδικον, Ζήνωνα καὶ Παρμενίδην. Ὀγδοηκοστῇ ὀγδόῃ ὀλυμπιάδι τὸν κωμῳδὸν Ἀριστοφάνην, Εὔπολίν τε καὶ Πλάτωνα γενέσθαι φασίν. Ἑκατοστῇ τρίτῃ ὀλυμπιάδι Ἀριστοτέλην φασὶν ἀκροᾶσθαι Πλάτωνος, βραχεῖαν ἄγοντα κομιδῇ τὴν ἡλικίαν. Ἑκατοστῇ δωδεκάτῃ ὀλυμπιάδι Ἀλεξανδρείαν τὴν πρὸς Αἴγυπτον κτισθῆναί φασιν, ἔτει ἑβδόμῳ τῆς Ἀλεξάνδρου βασιλείας· κατ' ἐκεῖνο δὲ τοῦ καιροῦ Ἀναξιμένης τε καὶ Ἐπίκουρος ἐγενέσθην οἱ φιλόσοφοι. 1.16 Ἑκατοστῇ εἰκοστῇ τετάρτῃ ὀλυμπιάδι, Πτολεμαίου τῆς Αἰγύπτου βασιλεύοντος τοῦ ἐπίκλην φιλαδέλφου, τὸν Σάραπιν ἐν Ἀλεξανδρείᾳ φασὶν ἐλθεῖν ἐκ Σινώπης, τὸν αὐτὸν δὲ εἶναι τῷ Πλούτωνι· ὅθεν καὶ ἱερὸν ἐκτίζετο τῷ ἀγάλματι, ὃ καὶ τῇ ἐγχωρίῳ φωνῇ καλοῦσιν οἱ Αἰγύπτιοι Ῥάκωτιν, οὐδὲν ἕτερον ἢ τὸν Πλούτωνα διὰ τούτου σημαίνοντες· ταύτητοι καὶ τοῖς μνήμασι γείτονα τὸν νεὼν ἐποιήσαντο. Ἀμφιβάλλεται δὲ παρ' Ἕλλησιν ὁ ἐπ' αὐτῷ λόγος· οἱ μὲν γὰρ οὐκ ἀξιοῦσιν εἶναι Πλούτωνα αὐτόν, Ὄσιριν δὲ μᾶλλον, ἕτεροι δὲ τὸν Ἄπιν. Πολλῆς τοίνυν διαμάχης οὔσης περὶ τούτου, ἱδρύσαντο, φασί, τὸ εἴδωλον ὥσπερ ἐξ ἑνὸς συνθήματος