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e Socrates is celebrated for his superlative eloquence.

f Among the Locrians, when Atlantis had been split off by an earthquake, the city became an island.

f Ezra recalls that Nehemiah, who constructed the walls of Jerusalem , had finished the work in the 32nd year of Artaxerxes, king of the Persians. If someone should count from this point the 70 weeks (of years), written of by Daniel, which come to 490 years, he will find them fulfilled in the reign of Nero, in whose reign Jerusalem, after it had begun to be besieged, is seized in the second year of Vespasian.

40 g Plato is born.

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89th Olympiad

8th of the Persians, Xerxes the second, for two months. After which the 9th, Sogdianus, for seven months. To whom succeeds 10th Darius, surnamed Nothus, for 19 years.

11th of the Macedonians, Archelaus for 24 years. 1 h The Lacedaemonians and Athenians strike a treaty.

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2 i Eudoxus the Cnidian is considered important.

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33 g Beginning of the Peloponnesian war.

1 432 3 k The Lacedaemonians found the city of Heraclea, fulfilling a sacred vow. (*)

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h Bacchylides the song writer is well known.

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