Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Varro on the Egyptians Taking 'Year' to Mean 'Month'
For he says that among the Egyptians months are accounted as years: so that the circuit of the sun through the twelve signs of the zodiac does not make a year, but the moon, which traverses that sign-bearing circle in the space of thirty days; which argument is manifestly false. [Divine Instutitions II.13]
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