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D-7.

nodical Month, and consists of 27 '

43 - But if we regard the Time that jbetween one Conjunction or New-Mo° D, ,.Jthe next following, it is call’d a Sy^ ^Month , and is equal to 29 D. 12 H-34 ’ These now mentioned are thenomical Tears, Months , and Days :used in common Life are somewhat jtent. Thus the Civil Month is a Sp aC ^j c28, 29, 30, or 31 Days, and 12Months make 354 Days, which is ^Civil Lunar Year ; and a Civil Sola 1 " ^is the Space of 365 Days. Theref 0 ^-,equate the Civil Lunar to the Sol^ r jjd11 Days are to be added, which wereby the Greeks Epamogenœ, and by uSEpacls. .

35. The Civil Soli-Lunar Year 0 J ^Days, being sliort of the true by 557", occasion’d the Beginning of the ^to run forwards through the Seaf° oSDay nearly in four Years, and 10Years through all the Months of the ^On this Account Julius Cæsar ordain ^every fourth Year one Day should he ^to February , by causing the 24th 0^

reckon’d twice; and because this 24February was the Sixth (Sextilis) be 0Kalends of March, there were in th 11two of those Sex tiles , which gave the §1