r with Tissaphernes and Pharnal azus, Xenophon and his troops were invited to join the army of Thimbron, and Xenophon led them back out of Asia to join Thimbron B. C. 399. Xenophon, who was very poor, made an expedition into the plain of the Caicus with his troops before they joined Thimbron, to plunder the house and property of anophon, by this robbery, replenished his empty pockets (Anab. 7.8.23).
He tells the story himself as if he were not ashamed of it.
Socrates was put to death in B. C. 399, and it seems probable that Xenophon was banished either shortly before or shortly after that event. His death during Xenophon's absence in Asia appears to be coasybulus and the exiles, B. C. 403.
The second paragraph of the third book in which Themistogenes is mentioned, may be considered as completing the history up to B. C. 399; and a new narrative appears to begin with the third paragraph of the third book (*)Epei\ me/ntoi *Tissafe/rnhs, &c).
But there seems no sufficient reason to con
rown open by Apollodorus of Athens, were entered by Zeuxis of Heracleia in the fourth year of the 95th Olympiad (B. C. 400-399) ... who is by some placed erroneously in the 79th Olympiad (or 89th, for the best MSS. vary; B. C. 464-4460 or 424-420), from what we are told of his connection with Archelaüs, king of Macedonia, whose reign began in B. C. 413, and ended in B. C. 399. the very year in which, according to Pliny, Zeuxis began to flourish.
But for this king he executed an important and e which is worth repeating, both for its own sake, and as showing that the work must have been executed some time before B. C. 399 (when Socrates himself was put to death), and yet after the fame of Zeuxis had been spread far and wide --" Archelaüs," he presented to Archelaüs : another proof that he had reached the summit of his reputation before that king's death in B. C. 399, Another indication of his date is found in the story related by Plutarch (Per. 13), which represents him as partly con
of the introduction of fire-arms as artillery appears involved in great obscurity.
The artillery of the Moors is said to date back to 1118; from the few faint and imperfect allusions which occur here and there in old writers, it seems probable that their invention bore some analogy to rockets, or the projectile was self-propelling.
The following are some of the dates ascribed to the introduction of some military engines and artillery:—.
Catapult invented by Dionysius of Syracuse, B. C. 399
Gunpowder artillery used in China.A. D. 85
Cannon throwing stones, weighing 12 pounds, 300 paces.757
The Moors use artillery in attacking Saragossa.1118
The Moors use engines throwing stones and darts by means of fire.1157
The Chinese employ cannon throwing round-stone shot against the Mongols.1232
Cordova attacked by artillery.1280
A mortar for destroying buildings, etc. de-scribed by Al Mailla, an Arab historian.1291
Gibraltar taken by means of artillery.1308
A cannon in the arsena
