OMNIBUS

The method of computing time by Olympiads did not come into use till after the death of Alexander; and first appears in the Parian Chronicle, which was engraved about sixty years after that event. The first historian who used it was Timaeus Siculus, who wrote a few years later. About 200 years b. c. Eratosthenes of Alexandria digested a chronological table of the Olympiads. [s. 857]