Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VI/Julius Africanus/Extant Fragments of the Chronography/Part 15

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Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. VI, Extant Fragments of the Chronography
by Julius Africanus, translated by Philip Schaff et al.
Part 15
158300Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. VI, Extant Fragments of the Chronography — Part 15Philip Schaff et al.Julius Africanus

XV.[1]

And Africanus, in the third book of his History, writes: Now the first Olympiad recorded—which, however, was really the fourteenth—was the period when Corœbus was victor;[2] at that time Ahaz was in the first year of his reign in Jerusalem. Then in the fourth book he says: It is therefore with the first year of the reign of Ahaz that we have shown the first Olympiad to fall in.


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  1. From the same, Book III., and from Book IV. In Syncellus p. 197, al. 158.
  2. The text is, ἀναγραφῆναι δὲ πρώτην τὴν τεσσαρεσκαιδεκάτην, etc.