# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_April 1856_S112
# AI translation — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

112 Dr. Seyffarth's Corrections, etc.

Petavius teaches. Caesar's reign lasts, according to the reports of the ancient authors and astronomical observations, not, as Petavius reckons, 5 years 8 months, but 6 years 3 months. Hence all the preceding consuls must be moved down one year, up to 331 B.C. In 382 B.C. Petavius has again inserted a pair of consuls; hence the first Roman consuls must be placed in the year 507 B.C. (not 509), and the founding of the city of Rome in the year 753 B.C.

All events of Greek history and all archons up to Caesar's death must be moved down 2 years. The Olympiads began in 774 B.C. (not 777), Alexander the Great died in 321 B.C. (not 324 or 323), the duration of the Peloponnesian War must, according to the reports of the ancient authors, be taken as one year longer (28 years 6 months), and its beginning moved down 2 years, to the year 430 B.C. instead, that at Thermopylae to 479.

Of Persian, Median, Assyrian, and Babylonian history we wish only to point out that the Persian kings must be moved down 2 years. Cyrus became king of Media not in 538 but in 534 B.C., and died not in 529 but in 527 B.C. The 5th year of Cambyses, in which he conquered Egypt, is therefore 523 B.C. The Babylonian captivity begins in 605 B.C. and lasts a full 70 years, until 534 B.C. Nebuchadnezzar reigns jointly with his father Nabopolassar from 615 to 605 B.C., then alone until 562; in 588 the siege of Jerusalem begins and he destroys it in 585. Zerubbabel goes up to Jerusalem in 533 B.C. and builds the altar (Ezra 2:64), which is dedicated on the first day of the seventh month, on September 30, 583 B.C. (Ezra 3:6). On March 26, 512 B.C. the temple of Zerubbabel is dedicated.

Egyptian history must be moved down 2 years from Ptolemy Lagi to Augustus, because Alexander died not in 323 but in 321. Regarding the 18th Dynasty it is established through astronomical observations that Amos I reigned alone from 1904 to 1878 B.C., but then his son Chebron reigned jointly with him until the year 1867, when the Israelites departed. The Hebrews, identical with the Hyksos, the shepherd-kings, came into Egypt in 2082 B.C., dwelt in Egypt, from Israel onward, for 215 years, and departed in 1867. The Hyksos of the 17th Dynasty are none other than the Israelites; those of the 15th Dynasty, the Abrahamites. Manetho, who is regarded as the source for the early history of Egypt, had in his history, entitled Sothis, as the title itself indicates, the purpose of producing the great dog-star period (Sothis) of 36,000 years, and his dynasties and divine reigns are arranged accordingly. The same purpose underlies the Vetus Chronicon, which, being older, produces the 36,000 years in a different way. The same is the case with Herodotus. But the dynasties up to the 18th are simultaneous; only the first, twelfth, sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, and so on, reigned in succession, the others simultaneously