CLASS I-ORDER III. Βασιλεία. HOUSρIYOT* The k. of the Ostrogoths 1767 Σαρακηνική + The Saracenic empire * Ous piyorton. Procopius Cæsariensis. 785 1267 1323 CLASS II. Containing the number of the different nations of the world, which have either not been kingdoms, or whose form of government I have not been able to ascertain. * ORDER I. Including the Greek national possessives, the declension of which is certain, with the amount of the numerical letters in each. * Nearly all the Greek possessives contained in this order will be found in Strabo's Geography. Γεννεϊτική The republic of Genoa Δαλματική The government of Dalmatia Ἐνετικὴ 1440 928 912 * Ἡ Καρχηδονία is used substantively by Strabo for Καρχηδών, Carthage. CLASS II.-ORDER 1. Πολιτεία. Η Μαρσική The government of the Marsi Μεσσάπια The g. of the Messapians Μοσχική The Οιταία The republic of the Etans 893 1051 1462 906 * Σερβικαὶ χώρας, Servian countries, Michaelis Glycz, Hist. p. 255. Edit. Venet. Byzant. Hist. CLASS II. ORDER II. Including the various orthographies of the different nations, for which I have not met with their corresponding possessives, with the amount of the numerical letters in each. *'Axviravol. Strabo. + BEVETIXV. Nicephorus Gregoras. AUGITávo. Strabo. § Μεσαπίων. MeraTiwy. p. 29. Dionysius Halicarnassensis, Antiq. Roman. 'Oroνrie, I do not recollect the author. ¶ Twv QUEVεTwv. Laonici Chalcocondylæ de Rebus Turcicis. **See Caroli à Sancto Paulo Geographia Sacra, cum Notis et Animadversionibus, Lucæ Holstenjį. From a close attention to the numbers of the different nations set down in the preceding Classes and Orders it will be sufficiently evident that there is not one which contains the exact number of 666 This must be acknowledged a very singular circumstance, when the great variety of examples produced are taken into the account. Yet the singularity is much more remarkable when it is considered, that even the use of the double article will in no one instance produce the number, that is to say, whether H Ῥωμαϊκὴ βασιλεία be computed, or Ἡ βασιλεία ἡ Ῥωμαϊκή; Η Περσικὴ βασιλεία, οι Η βασιλεία ή Περσική; Η Μακεδονικὴ βασιλεία, οι Η βασιλεία ή Μακεδονική, &c. &c. For in order that any kingdom or power noticed in Classes I. or II. might contain the number 666 when written with the double article, it is necessary that the number set down there should amount to only 658, the feminine prepositive article having a numerical value equivalent to what 658 is deficient of the number of the Beast. In Class II. I have added to the possessives the number contained in "HITEÍα, government, instead of that found in "H Baoteía, because I have not been able to determine the form of government of several of the nations there named, and the rest I have ascertained not to have been kingdoms. Пoreía contains 506 and BaoAsía 259; consequently the latter word has 247 less than the former. If the whole of the nations, therefore, set down in Class II. be considered as kingdoms, we shall find that even the subduction of |