¶ Ioathan ¶ Capitulum 32.
IOathan Iosias sonne regned in Iuda sexten yere· In his firste yere Phacea Romelyas sonne began to regne in Israel and regned twenty yere ¶This firste yere of Ioathan as Iosephus and the history of Affryca and beda tellen after four honderd yere and six after the destruction of Troye the first Olimpias was ordeyned by the Iliensis vnder Escilis Iugge of Athene in the whiche Olimpias corebus of athene was the first vyctour / Hugo ¶ Olimpus is the name of an hill in grecia atte clyf named acten that hille is called olimpus for myrth & clerenesse of weder that is ther as it were the myrth of god Ther the Ileens haue theyr tornamētes frō iiij yere to iiij yere so that four yere was bytwene the tornoyes in the whiche four ye¦re princes be ordeyned and chosen & that space of four yere is cle¦ped Olimpias Isichus praxomdys sonne ordeyned first Olimpi∣as / R / The Olimpias begynneth atte styntyig of the sonne in the wynter that is whan the day is shertest for the grekis begynneth her yere than Hugo ca / Olimpus ¶ Olimpiades be playes or∣deyned vnder the hylle Olimpus in worship of Iupiter· In the whiche playes who that hath the maystrye shal haue what he wold axe and was holden ones in fyue yere lest it shold be for∣yete and it were lenger forborn and for it shold greue men with grete cost yf it were ofter vsed ¶ Theglathphalazar kyng of as¦siria wente vp in to Israel and destroyed the countrey beyonde Iordane and toke prisonners twey lygnages of Israel and an half. and ladde with hym to Assiria / And that was the begyn∣nyng of the thraldome of the ten lignages of Israel ¶Pol. li / octauo ¶ Ierom sayth that this kynge of Assyria hadde fyue