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" xozrjy 78 [xnvoQ ri[jj£pav layoirtp 8 <jkv uno civts tS av/A^xivo^joc t^/#-Greeks.

" xu$u ixuheauv. Propofitum enim fuit veteribus, menfes quidem" agere fecundum lunam, annos vero fecundam folem. %uod enim d" legibus M oraculis praecipiebatur , ut facrific arent fecundum tria,

" videlicet patria, menfes , «fer, s/r/wd; diflinSle faciebant

" univerfi Graci, ut annos agerent congruenter cumfole, dies vero" & menfes cum luna. Porro fecundum folem annos agere , ejl circaeafdem tempeflates anni eadem facrificia diis perfici, & vernum" facrificium femper in vere confummari , afiivum autem in aftate:

“ Jimiliter & in reliquis anni temporibus eadem facrificia cadere.

" Hoc enim putabant acceptum tff gratum ejfe diis. Hoc autem" aliter fieri nonpojfet, nift converjiones folflitiales <2? coquino dii a in" iifdem Zodiaci locis fierent. Secundum lunam vero dies agere, efl" tale, ut congruant cum luna illuminationibus appellationes dierum.

" Nam d luna illuminationibus appellationes dierum fitnt denomi-" nata. In qua enim die luna apparet nova, ea per Synaloephen,

<i feu compofitionem ysoprivioi, id efl, novilunium appellatur. In" qua vero die fecundam facit apparitionem, eam fecundam lunam" vocarunt. Apparitionem luna, qua circa medium menfis fit, ab" ipfo eventu h-gofjiwxv, id efl medietatem menfis nominarunt. Ac<l fummatim, omnes dies d luna illuminationibus denominarunt .

" Unde etiam tricefimam menfis diem, cum ultima fit, ab ipfo eventu" vocarunt

XXII. The ancient Calendar-year of the Greeks confiftedtherefore of twelve lunar months, and every month of thirtydays : and thefe years and months they corredfed from time totime, by the courfes of the fun and moon, omitting a day ortwo in the month, as often as they found the month too longfor the courfe of the moon; and adding a month to the year, asoften as they found the twelve lunar months too fliort for the re-tum of the four feafons. Cleobulus, a one of the Seven Wife 1 ApudLaer-

- . , . tium, in

Men of Greece, alluded to this year of the Greeks, in his para- cieoWo.ble of one father who had twelve fons, each of whichhad thirtydaughters, half white and half black: and Thales b called the b Ap«d La-laft day of the month t pt<KKX$oi ('), the thirtieth: and Solon count- Thalete.

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§ XXII.

( ) So fay* Diogenes Laertius; but it esu not be true. For the word occurs at the very be-Vol. V. I ginning