22.]

If anyone objects that such a system of chronology is cumbrous,
uncertain, and utterly unscientific, I can only say that I entirely
agree with him, and that the system is worthy of the perverted
ingenuity which produced the Nones and Ides of the Roman Calendar.

In the following tables I have not attempted to mark the years of the
Indiction, on account of the confusion caused by the fact that two
calendar years require the same number. But I have denoted by the
abbreviation 'Ind.' the years in which each cycle of the Indictions
_began_. These years are 492, 507, 522, 537, 552, and 567.

_Chronological Tables._

Private Public Rulers of
A.D. Consuls. Events. Events. Italy. Popes. Emperors.
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480 Basilius Magnus Assassination ODOVACAR SIMPLICIUS ZENO
Junior. Aurelius of Nepos, (from 476). (from 468). (from 474).
Cassiodorus formerly
Senator, Emperor of
born at the West.
Scyllacium
(?).
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481 Placidus. Odovacar
avenges the
murder of
Nepos. Death
of
Theodoricus
Triarii.
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482 Trocondus Accession of
and Clovis.
Severinus.
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483 Faustus. Zeno issues FELIX II
the Henoticon. (or III).
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484 Theodoricus Illus revolts
and against Zeno.
Venantius. Schism between
Eastern and
Western
Churches.
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485 Q. Aurelius
Memmius
Symmachus.
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