Part 55

Clio, cap. xcv.

Clio, cap. vii.

Stephen of Byzantium, at the word Chaldæi.

Josephus, (Contra App.) lib. i. cap. xix.

Diod. Sic. lib. ii.

Josephus (contra App.) lib. i. cap. 6; and Strabo, lib. xv. p. 687.

See in the Memoirs of the Academy of Belles Lettres, vol. v. the memoir of Freret on the History of the Assyrians.

Strabo, lib. xi. p. 507.

Syncellus, p. 38 and 39.

N. B.--It is very remarkable that Herodotus does not mention having seen monuments of Sesostris, except in Palestine, and does not speak of those of Ionia, but upon the authority of others, adding, at the same time, that Sesostris is not named in the inscriptions, and that those who had seen these monuments attributed them to Memnon. See Euterpe, chap. cvi.

Justin, lib. i. cap. i. Vetleius Paterculus, lib. i. cap. 7.

See Moses of Chorene, Histor. Armeniac. lib. l. cap. i.

See the Preface of the Brothers Whiston, regarding Moses of Chorene, p. 4.

Zendavesta of Anquetil, vol. ii. p. 354.

Mazoudi, ap. Sacy, MS. of the Royal Library, vol. viii. p. 161.

See the preface to the edition of Chou-king, by M. de Guignes.

Chou-king, French translation, p. 9.

See the Yu-kong, or first chapter of the second part of the Chou-king, pp. 43-60.

See the excellent and magnificent work of M. de Humboldt upon the Mexican monuments.

Geminus, who was cotemporary with Cicero, explains their motives at length. See M. Halma’s edition at the end of the Ptolomée, p. 43.

The whole of this system is developed by Censorinus, De Die Natali, cap. xviii. and xxi.

Ideler. Historical Researches regarding the Astronomical Observations of the Ancients. M. Halma’s translation, at the end of his Canon de Ptolomée, p. 32. et seq.

Bainbridge, Canicul.

Petau, Var. Dios. lib. v. cap. vi. p. 108.--Also, La Nanze, Acad. de Bell. Lett. t. xiv. p. 346.

Petau. loc. cit. M. Ideler asserts that this concurrence of the heliacal rising of Sirius also took place in 2782 before Christ. (Historical Researches in M. Halma’s Ptolomée, vol. iv. p. 37.) But with regard to the Julian year 1598 after Christ, which is also the last of a great year, Petau and Ideler differ much from each other. The latter refers the heliacal rising of Sirius to the 22d July; the former to the 19th or 20th of August.

See, in the great work on Egypt, Antiq. Memoirs, vol. 1. p. 803. the ingenious Memoir of M. Fourier, entitled Recherches sur les Sciences et le Gouvernement de l’Egypte.

These are the words of the late M. Nouet, Astronomer to the Expedition to Egypt. See Volney, New Inquiries regarding Ancient History, vol. iii.

Delambre, Abregé d’Astronomie, p. 217; and in his note upon the Parantaellons, in his History of the Astronomy of the Middle Age, p. lij.