〈◊〉〈◊〉 the beginning of Salomons raigne, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the third of the He∣raclidae in Corinth; Labotes in Lacedaemon; and soone after Syluius Alba the fourth of the 〈◊〉〈◊〉, swayed those Kingdomes: Laosthenes then go∣uerning [unspec 30] Assyria: Agastus and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the second and third Princes after Codrus ruling the Athenians.
In the sixe and twentieth of Salomons raigne Hiram of Tyre died, to whom Balia∣strus succeeded, and raigned seuenteene yeeres, after Mercators account, who rec∣kons the time of his rule by the age of his sonnes. Iosephus giues him fewer yeeres.* 1.1 Theophilus Antiochenus against Autolicus findcs Bozorius the next after Hiram, if there bee not some Kings omitted beweene the death of Hiram, and the raigne of Bozorius.
Vaphres being dead, about the twentieth of Salomon, Sesac or Shisak (as our En∣glish 〈◊〉〈◊〉 termes him) beganne to gouerne in Aegypt, being the same with him [unspec 40] whom Diodorus calleth 〈◊〉〈◊〉; Iosephus, 〈◊〉〈◊〉; Cedrenus, Susesinus; Euscbius in the columne of the Aegyptian Kings Smendes, and in that of the Hebrewes Susac. Iosephus in the eight of his Antiquities reproueth it as an errour in Herodotus, that hee ascribeth the acts of Susac to Sesostris, which perchance Herodotiss might haue done by comparison, accounting Sesac another Sesostris, for the great things hee did.
Of the great acts and vertues of King Sesostris I haue spoken already in the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of the Aegyptian Princes: only in this hee was reproued, that hee caused foure of his captiue Kings to draw his Caroch, when hee was disposed to bee seene, and to ride in trumph: one of which foure, saith Eutropius, at such time as Sesostris [unspec 50] was carried out to take the aire, cast his head continually backe vpon the two fore-most wheeles next him; which Sesostris perceiuing, asked him what hee found worthy the admiration in that motion? to whom the captiue King answe∣red, that in those hee beheld the instabilitie of all worldly things; for that both the