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Jerome, Chronicle (2005) pp.188-332

	Persians			Beginning of the Consuls of the					Romans		Macedonians		BC		Persians				Consuls				Macedonians				BC
		2		a Harmodius and Aristogiton killed the tyrant Hipparchus, and the courtesan Leaena their friend, when compelled with torments, lest she betray her companions, she amputated her tongue with her teeth.					28		34		520		68th Olympiad			a The Aeginatans controlled the sea 17th for 20 years until the crossing of Xerxes.
		3							29		35		519			14									46		508
														1510		15									47		507
																16		b Valerius, the colleague of the consul Brutus, died so poor that he was interred at public expense. *							48		506
		4							30		36		518			17									49		505
1500		5							31		37		517		69th Olympiad
	66th Olympiad															18		c At Rome, after a census had been taken, there were found to be 120,000 men.							50		504
		6		b The temple of Jerusalem is completed, when Haggai and Zechariah are prophesying among the Jews.					32		38		516											Of the Macedonians, Alexander, for 43 years
		7							33		39		515					d Nine years after the kings were expelled, a new rank was created, that is, the dictatorship, and the Master of the Horse, who would answer to the dictator. Largius was the first Dictator, and Spurius Cassius the Master of Horse. (*)
		8							34		40		514
		9							35		41		513
	67th Olympiad								~~~~							19									1		503
		10		c After the kings had been expelled from the City, Rome was holding power barely as far as the 15th milestone. The seven kings of the Romans from Romulus until Tarquinius Superbus reigned for 240 years, or as some prefer, 243. (*)							42		512			20									2		502
																21									3		501
		11									43		511		70th Olympiad			e Hellanicus the historian, and Democritus the philosopher, and Heraclitus surnamed 'the Dark', and Anaxagoras the natural scientist are considered important.
																22									4		500
																23									5		499
																24									6		498
		12									44		510	1520		25		f Pythagoras the philosopher dies.							7		497
				d After the kings had been expelled, first two consuls began to exist at Rome, from Brutus; then tribunes of the plebs and dictators, and then consuls again controlled the Republic for close to 464 years, until Julius Caesar, who was the first to seize sole rule, in the 183rd Olympiad.											71st Olympiad			g The Volsci destroyed Corioli. *
																26		h Aeschylus the writer of tragedies is well known.							8		496
		13									45		509			27		i The Latins rebelled against the Romans.							9		495
																28		l After an uprising had happened, the people of Rome, seceded from the fathers.							10		494

	Persians				Consuls				Macedonians				BC		Persians				Consuls				Macedonians				BC
		29		a Marcius, who had captured Corioli, withdrew his army from its seige of the City (Rome) by the intervention of his mother Veturia and his wife Volumnia. *							11		493			3		a Choerilus and Phrynicus are considered illustrious.							21		483
																		b Diagoras is well known, and the followers of his natural philosophy.
																4									22		482
	72nd Olympiad															5		c Xerxes, when he had come to Athens, burned down the city, at the time of the leadership of Callias.							23		481
		30		b The war that was waged in Marathon, and those things that are written about Miltiades and Aristides who was surnamed the Just.							12		492
		31									13		491		75th Olympiad
		32									14		490			6		d The war that was waged in Thermopylae. and the naval battle off Salamis.							24		480
		33		c Panyasis the poet is considered illustrious.							15		489
				d 300 nobles of the Fabian family slaughtered by the people of Veii. *
																7		e The Athenians fortify Piraeus with a wall.							25		479
				e When the Roman soldiers were besieged on mount Algidus, they were freed by the dictator Quintius Cincinnatus. *												8		f Hieron reigns at Syracuse.							26		478
														1540		9		g Aeschylus the tragedian is well known.							27		477
															76th Olympiad
																10		h War in Plateia and Mycale.							28		476
	73rd Olympiad															11		i After Gelon, Hieron exercises tyranny at Syracuse.							29		475
		34		f Egypt was severed from Darius.							16		488			12									30		474
1530		35		g Gelo occupied Syracuse.							17		487			13		k Pindar the musician is considered important.							31		473
		36		h Pindar and Simonides the lyrical poets are considered notable.									486		77th Olympiad
																14		l Themistocles flees to the Persians.							32	n Start of the 71st jubilee accord- ing to the Heb- rews.	472
				i At Rome, the Vestal Virgin Pompilia, discovered in unchastity, was buried alive.							18					15		m Sophocles, the tragedian, first published the works of his ingenuity.							33		471
	5th of the Persians, Xerxes son of Darius, for 20 years.
		1									19		485			16		o At Rome, the vestal virgin Sunia, discovered in unchastity, was buried alive.							34		470
	74th Olympiad			k Xerxes captures Egypt.
		2		l Aristides is expelled with ignominy.							20		484			17		p Sophocles and Euripides are considered important.							35		469

	Persians				Consuls				Macedonians				BC		Persians				Consuls				Macedonians				BC
	78th Olympiad																	subsequent deeds which are reported to have been performed by them, would not have been silent about Esther.
				a Herodotus the historical writer is well known.
																3		a Sicily was ruled by the people.							42		462
		18		b Bacchylides and Diagoras are celebrated at Athens for their superlative eloquence.							36		468			4		b Cimon overcomes the Persians in naval and land battle near the Eurimedontis: and halts the Median war.							43		461
1550		19		c Zeuxis the painter is well-known; some people judge that the so-called 'the bath of the Byzantines' is one of his paintings, many of which he made on commission. *							37		467
																								Of the Macedonians, Perdiccas, for 28 years.
																		c An eclipse of the sun happened.
															80th Olympiad
				d Themistocles dies from a draught of bull's blood.												5		d Anaxagoras dies.							1		460
																		e Heraclitus is considered important.
		20		e Socrates is born.							38		466					f Evenus the poet is important.
				f A stone fell from the sky into the Aegon River.														g Ezra the priest, notable among the Hebrews, is well-known, in whose time the high priesthood was held by Eliashib, son of Joakim, son of Jeshua, son of Jozadak. Moreover Ezra was most well-learned in the Divine Law, and an important teacher of all the Jews who had returned from captivity to Judaea.
	6th of the Persians, Artabanus, for 7 months, after whom, 7th, Artaxerxes, who was surnamed Long-Hand, for 40 years.
																6									2		459
											39		465
																7									3		458
														1560		8									4		457
															81st Olympiad			h Empedocles and Parmenides are considered most notable natural philosophers.
	79th Olympiad			g These things were written about Esther and Mordecai: some affirm that they took place under this king, which I do not think; for Ezra, who writes that in this time Ezra and Nehemiah were returned from Babylon, and the												9									5		456
		1									40		464					i Zeno and Heraclitus the Dark are well known.
																10		k Pherecydes the second writer of history is well known.							6		455
		2									41		463			11		Cratinus and Plato the writers of comedies							7		454

	Persians				Consuls				Macedonians				BC		Persians				Consuls				Macedonians				BC
				are considered important.										1570		18		permission of his master, came to Judaea from Babylon in his 20th year, and in his 32nd year restored the walls and the city. Ezra writes that the task was completed under the high priest Joiada, Joasib, who was succeeded by his own son, Jonathan, who lived in the time of Alexander of Macedon.							14		447
				a Aristarchus the tragedian is well known.
				b The very famous centennial games of Rome first held.
		12		c 302 years from the founding of the City, the Decemvirs were created, and after one year they were ejected on account of Appius Claudius, who wished to abduct the daughter of a certain Virginius who was fighting against the Latins in Algidum. *							8		453
																19		a Up to this point, the divine Scriptures of the Hebrews contain annals of time: those things which happened among them after these things, we provide from the book of Maccabees, and Josephus, and from the writings of Africanus, which thereafter continued the universal history until the Roman period.							15		446
	82nd Olympiad
		13		d The Romans through ambassadors sought out laws from the Athenians, from which the Twelve Tables were inscribed.							9		452
																20		b The Athenians and Lacedaemonians initiate a treaty of 30 years.							16		445
		14		e Crates the writer of comedies, and Telesilla and Bacchylides the lyric poets, are considered important: likewise, Praxilla and Cleobulina are renowned.							10		451
																		c Herodotus was honoured for reading his books in the assembly at Athens.
															84th Olympiad
		15		f The temple of Juno that had been at Argos burned down.							11		450			21		d Melissus the natural philosopher is well known.							17		444
																22		e Euripides the tragedian is considered important, and Protagoras the sophist, whose books the Athenians burned by a public decree.							18		443
		16		g Abaris the Hyperborean Seer is well known.							12		449
																23									19		442
	83rd Olympiad			h Tribunes of the plebs and aediles created at Rome, after the consuls had been ejected.												24									20		441
															85th Olympiad
		17		i Nehemiah the Hebrew, the attendant of King Artaxerxes, with the							13		448			25		f At Rome consuls again created.							21		440
																26		g Phidias makes an ivory Minerva.							22		439

	Persians				Consuls				Macedonians				BC		Persians				Consuls				Macedonians				BC
				a The Fidennates rebel against the Romans. *												35		a The Athenians suffer in the plague.							3		430
		27		b Theaetetus the mathematician is well known. Aristophanes is considered important, and Sophocles the tragic poet.							23		438
																		b Thucydides is well known.
1580		28									24		437			36		c Pericles dies.							4		429
	86th Olympiad														88th Olympiad
				c The Campanian gens established in Italy.												37		d Eupolis and Aristophanes, writers of comedies, are well-known.							5		428
		29		d Democritus of Abdera, and Empedocles, and Hippocrates the doctor, Gorgias, and Hippias, and Prodicus and Zeno and Parmenides the philosophers are considered notable.							25		436
		30									26		435	1590		38									6		427
		31									27		434			39		e Fire erupted from Mount Etna.							7		426
		32									28		433
				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.							8		425
															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.							9		424
	87th Olympiad															2		i Eudoxus the Cnidian is considered important.							10		423
		33		g Beginning of the Peloponnesian war.							1		432			3		k The Lacedaemonians found the city of Heraclea, fulfilling a sacred vow. (*)							11		422
				h Bacchylides the song writer is well known.												4									12		421
		34									2		431		90th Olympiad

	Persians				Consuls				Macedonians		Egyptians		BC		Persians				Consuls				Macedonians		Egyptians		BC
		5							13	1			420		of Darius and Parysatis, for 40 years.			a In the reign of this king, it seems to me, the story which is contained in the book of Esther came to pass: of course he is the one who is called 'Ahasuerus' by the Hebrews, and 'Artaxerxes' by the LXX translators.
		6							14				419
		7							15				418			1							1		3		405
1600		8							16				417		94th Olympiad
	91st Olympiad									Egypt is severed from the Persians and Amyrtaeus the Saite reigned for 6 years.
		9		a The calamity which happened to the Athenians in Sicily.					17				416			2							2		4		404
		10							18				415			3							3		5		403
		11							19				414			4							4		6		402
		12		b Alcibiades fled as a fugitive to Tisaphernes.					20		1		413					b Dionysius exercises a tyranny at Syracuse.					14th of the Macedonians, Amyntas, for 1 year.		After whom Achoris, for 12 years.
	92nd Olympiad
		13		c Euboea secedes from the federation of the Athenians.					21		2		412					c The Athenians support tyranny.
		14							22		3		411
		15							23		4		410			5		d Isocrates the orator is well known.					1		1		401
		16							24		5		409										After whom Pausanias, for 1 year.
	93rd Olympiad								Of the Macedonians, Orestes, for 3 years. 2									e 29th dynasty of Egypt, of the Mendesians.
		17		d Euripides dies staying with Archelaus, and Sophocles at Athens.					1		6		408					f Democritus dies.
										28th Dynasty of Egypt. Nepherites for 6 years.								g Pharnabazus kills Alcibiades.
1610		18							2		1		407					h The Anabasis of King Cyrus, about which Xenophon writes.
		19							3		2		406		95th Olympiad
	11th of the Persians, Artaxerxes, who was surnamed Mnemon, son			e Dionysius exercises tyranny in Sicily.					13th of the Macedonians, Archelaus, for 4 years.							6		i The tyrants overthrown at Athens.					1		2		400
																		k The Athenians began to use 24 letters, when previously they had only had 16 letters.

1. At this point, in mid-page in 'O', the column of Macedonian regnal years which is black up to this point suddenly turns red. This is clear evidence that the scribe copied the colours from his exemplar, and did not amend them. It also shows that the exemplar did indeed have 26 lines, because the colour change occurs at the page-break (as here) in such an exemplar, rather than in mid-page, as in 'O'.
2. This entry should be red, but is in fact black in 'O'.

	Persians				Consuls				Macedonians		Egyptians		BC		Persians				Consuls				Macedonians		Egyptians		BC
				a Xenophon the son of Gryllus, and Ctesias are considered important.					After whom Amyntas for 6 years.																Nectanebis for 18 years.
		7		b Socrates drinks poison.					1		3		399	1630		19		a Evagoras driven mad when he was reigning in Cyprus. 1					5		1		387
		8		c Temple at Ephesus burned down again.					2		4		398			20							6		2		386
1620		9		d The followers of Socrates are considered important.					3		5		397			21							7		3		385
	96th Olympiad														99th Olympiad
		10		e Diogenes the Cynic is well known.					4		6		396			22		b 30th dynasty of Egypt, of the people of Sebennythos.					8		4		384
		11		f Speusippus is considered notable.					5		7		395			23							9		5		383
		12							6		8		394			24							10		6		382
				g Dionysius persists in tyranny.					After whom Argaeus for 2 years.							25							11		7		381
															100th Olympiad
		13		h The famous Carthaginian War.					1		9		393			26		c The Peloponnesian cities of Helica and Bura were swallowed up in a great earthquake.					12		8		380
	97th Olympiad															27							13		9		379
		14		i Eudoxus the astrologer is well known.					2		10		392			28							14		10		378
									After whom Amyntas again for 18 years. 1                      11					1640		29		d The Praenesti conquered by the Romans at the River Allia by Quinctius Cincinnatus. (*)					15		11		377
		15		k The Senones Gauls occupied Rome, except for the Capitol. (*)									391
		16							2		12		390
											Of Egypt, Psammuthes, for 1 year.							e The Athenians made leaders of Greece.
															101st Olympiad
		17							3		1		389			30		f Isocrates the rhetor is well known.					16		12		376
	98th Olympiad			l Plato the philosopher is well known.						After whom Nepherites for 4 months.						31							17		13		375
																32		g Plato and Xenophon, and likewise other followers of Socrates are considered important.					18		14		374
		18		m The military tribunes began to be in place of the consuls. *					4		1		388										Of the Macedonians, Alexander, for 1 year.
											After whom					33							1		15		373

(1) Diodorus 14.110.5.

	Persians				Consuls				Macedonians		Egyptians		BC		Persians				Consuls				Macedonians		The kingship of the Egyptians was destroyed.		BC
	102nd Olympiad								After whom Ptolemy Alorites, for 4 years.														Of the Macedonians, Philp, for 26 years.
																4							1		6		362
		34							1		16		372			5							2		7		361
		35							2		17		371		105th Olympiad
		36							3		18		370			6		a Demosthenes the orator is well known.					3		8		360
											Of Egypt, Teo, for 2 years.					7		b Ochus, having captured Apodasmus of the Jews, settled her deported inhabitants in Hyrcania, by the Caspian sea.					4		9		359
				a Teo the king of Egypt flees to Arabia.												8							5		10		358
		37							4		1		369	1660		9							6		11		357
	103rd Olympiad								After whom Perdiccas, for 6 years.						106th Olympiad
																10		c Dionysius is driven from Sicily.					7		12		356
		38		b Dionysius the king of Sicily dies in his 19th year, after whom Dionysius the younger takes possession of the kingdom.					1		2		368			11		d Alexander, son of Philip and Olympias, is born.					8		13		355
											30th Dynasty of the Egyptians. Nectanebo, for 18 years.
																12		e Dion of Syracuse is murdered.					9		14		354
																13		f Hipparinus the son of Dionysus exercises tyranny over Syracuse.					10		15		353
															107th Olympiad
1650		39		c Aristotle, during the 18th year of his life, is a hearer of Plato.					2		1		367			14		g Erinna the poetess is well known.					11		16		352
		40							3		2		366			15		h Ochus held Egypt, Nectanebo having been expelled into Ethiopia, in whom the kingship of the Egyptians was destroyed. Up to this point, (the narrative is according to) Manetho.					12		17		351
	12th of the Persians, Artaxerxes, also called Ochus, for 26 years															16							13		18		350
																17							14		@@@@@@		349
		1							4		3		365		108th Olympiad
	104th Olympiad			d Alexander of Pherae is well-known.												18		i Ochus overthrew Sidon, and annexed Egypt to his empire.					15
		2							5		4		364	1670		19							16
		3		e Camillus defeats the Gauls, who had made war on the Romans.					6		5		363
																		k Demosthenes the Orator

		Persians									Consuls										Macedonians					BC			Persians								Consuls											Macedonians					BC
								is celebrated in the opinion of all.																					After whom Darius, 14th, son of Arsamus, for 6 years.						a Manasseh, the brother of Jad the high priest of the Jews, constructs a temple on Mount Garizin.
			20					a The Romans defeat the Gauls.														17				346
			21					b Dionysius sailed to Corinth under a truce.														18				345
																													1						b Alexander, fighting successfully against the Illyrians and Thracians, having destroyed Thebes, took up arms against the Persians, and at the River Granicus, overpowering the royal generals, captures the city of Sardis.														2				335
								c Plato dies, after whom Speusippus headed the Academy.																					2																				3				334
																													3																				4				333
		109th Olympiad						d The Romans, since they had defeated the Samnites in two battles, brought all the neighbouring regions back under their own rule because they had withdrawn from her alliance.
			22																			19				344
			23																			20				343
																																			c The Roman consul Manlius Torquatus beat his son with rods and executed him with an axe, because he had disobeyed orders by fighting against the enemy. (*)
			24																			21				342
			25					e Dionysus driven away to Corinth.														22				341
		110th Olympiad						f At Rome, a survey having been carried out, there were found to be 160,000 citizens.
			26																			23				340			112th Olympiad
		13th of the Persians, Arses, son of Ochus, 4 years.						g Jad, high priest of the Jews, is considered important.																					4						d After the capture of Tyre, Alexander takes possession of Judaea, and being received favourably there, sacrifices victims to God, compliments the high priest of the temple with many honors, and as guardian of the holy places sends forth Andromachus, whom the Samaritans later kill: on account of which things, after returning from Egypt, Alexander put them to death with great torment, and hands over their captured city to the Macedonians to dwell in. (*)														5				332
			1					h Speusippus dies, to whom Xenocrates succeeded.														24				339
			2																			25				338
1680			3																			26				337			5																				6				331
		111th Olympiad																		Of the Macedonians, Alexander, son of Philip, for 12 years, 6 months.
																													6						e Alexandria founded in Egypt, in the seventh year of Alexander's reign: at which time also the Latins were subdued by the Romans.														7				330
			4																			1				336

		The kingship of the Persians was destroyed														Consuls										BC			Alexandrians								Consuls										Macedo-nians						BC
												a Alexander occupied Babylon after Darius had been killed, in whom the kingship of the Persians was destroyed.																	In Egypt Ptolemy son of Lagus was the first to reign, for 40 years.																		Over the Macedonians, Philip, also called Aridaeus, brother of Alexander, reigned for 7 years.
		Alexander reigns in Asia in the 7th year of his reign and holds it all for 12 years.
																																	a At Rome Appius Claudius Caecus is considered important, who introduced the Claudian water and laid out the Appian Way. *
		Of Alexander																											1				b Lysimachus held Lydia, Thrace and the Hellespont.														1						324
			8									b Anaximenes and Epicurus are considered important.														329
																																	c The generals of the Macedonians turned to sedition.
												c Alexander captures the Hyrcanians and Mardians, and returning, he founded Paraetonium in Ammon.
																													2				d Agathocles exercises tyranny at Syracuse.														2						323
		113th Olympiad																															e The war against Lamia set in motion.
			9									d Alexander captures the Aorn rock and crosses the River Indus.														328							f Perdiccas fights against the Egyptians.
																													3				g Ptolemy the son of Lagus, after he had gained control of Jerusalem and Judaea by treachery, transferred very many captives into Egypt.														3						322
1690			10									e Alexander's war in India against Porus and Taxila.														327
			11									f Harpalus flees to Attica.																					h Onias the high priest of the Jews, the son of Jad, is considered important.
			12									g The Romans subjugate the Samnites, and plant colonies.														326
																													4				i Menander, showing his first play, named Orgen, 1 wins.														4						321
		114th Olympiad
								h Alexander dies in the 32nd year of his life in Babylon. After him, power was transferred into many hands.																									k Theophrastus the philosopher is well-known, who, so Cicero says, received this name because of his god-like speech. (*)