 | William Mitford - 1814 - 478 sidor
...the pedigree. That ready method, used by the Greek chronologers, but greatly improved by the modern, for accommodating chronological difficulties by the...different ages, has been employed to adjust the age of Pheidon, with the success which cannot fail to attend it; but we find no historical authority for the... | |
 | Herodotus - 1824 - 388 sidor
...of Strabo, but that writer, as his copies now stand, is consistent with himself; and, upon Newton,s system, consistent with Herodotus. It can scarcely...existence of more than one king of Argos of that name. Mitford,s Greece, App. toch. 3. ing all the Grecians in arrogance, removed the Elean agonothetae2,... | |
 | William Mitford - 1835 - 410 sidor
...the pedigree. That ready method, used by the Greek chronologers, but greatly improved by the modern, for accommodating chronological difficulties by the...different ages, has been employed to adjust the age of Pheidon, with the success which cannot fail to attend it; but we find no historical authority for the... | |
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That ready method for accommodating chronological difficulties by the supposition of two or more persons of the same name, in the same situation, and sometimes of the same character and the same fame, in different ages, has been employed to adjust the... 