ANALYTICAL INDEX TO THE CHRONOLOGICAL AND ASTRONOMICAL OPUSCULA edited in columns 743–1460.
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A Egyptian year, what it was, 19. Egyptian day, 67 and following. Inventors of Egyptian astronomy, 73. Equinoctial, 9, 87. Its boundary as designated by certain stars by Eudoxus and Aratus, and Hipparchus’ inquiry into it, 115 and following. Aratean [equinoctial], 142, 143. Ether, whether it feeds animals, 97. Two Ethiopias, 31. Halcyon days, 38, 47. Amphiscii, 90. Andromeda and the Horse set in the morning together, 43. Rise in the morning, 47. Rise in the evening, 51, 52. Declination of the stars of Andromeda, 114. Her rising, 129. Co-setting, 123, 126. Year, what it is, 2. Its division, 2. Lunar, 18. Solar, 23, 82. Callippic, 23, 82. Of all the planets, 81. Of the sun, 82. Roman, corrected by Numa, 159, 160. On the universal year, Gaza ch. 10, where [he treats] of the Greek and Egyptian year. Whether it is better to reckon by the sun or the moon, Gaza ch. 11. Years from Adam, 176. Antarctic [circle] of Eudoxus, 116. Anthesterion, Gaza ch. 5. Antichthones, 89. Antipodes, 29, 90. Antoeci, 29, 89. Antares. See Scorpio. Aquarius, its rising, 38, 46. Sets, 46, 50. Rises, 52. Eudoxus’ error concerning the rising of the asterism, 125. True rising, 137. Setting, 139. Aquila, its rising, 37. Sets, 37. Rises, 38. Sets in the morning, 48. Rises, 49, 50. Sets in the morning, 51, 52. Rising of the asterism, 129. Setting, 136. Altar (Ara) and Aratus’ lapse concerning it, 110. Distance of its brightest star from the pole, 111. Co-rising, 134. Co-setting, 135. Aratus wrote a Canon, 80. In it he dealt with the five planets, 80. Lived at the court of Antigonus in Macedonia, 91. Followed Eudoxus almost word for word, 98 and following. Observed the signs in the east, 120. [He says] as Eudoxus [does], 120. Wrote the Phenomena in crude Minerva, 126, 127. His method, 142, 143. How many circles of the sphere he described, 146. Authors who have illustrated Aratus, 147. His life, 148. Lived in the 125th Olympiad, 149. Imitated Hesiod, 149. His writings, 149. How many [works] Aratus had, 149. Method of Aratus, 149, 150. Arctic circle, 8. How it is larger or smaller, 10. Arctic circle as described by Eudoxus and corrected by Hipparchus, 115. Aratean, 142, 143. Arctophylax, its declination, 116. Its position on the equinoctial or parallel to it, 117. Error of Eudoxus and Aratus concerning its rising, 121. Also that common to all, 122. Declination of the foot, 122. Arcturus, 8. Rises, 37. Sets, 37. Rises in the evening, 43, 44. Rises in the evening, 47, 48. Sets in the morning, 49, 50, 51. Distance from the pole, 111. Argus constellation, and Aratus’ lapse concerning it, 109. Co-rising, 133. Aries sets, 37. Rises, 39. Aries, and Aratus’ lapse concerning it, 106. And Attalus’, 107. It is not on the equinoctial, 115. Its position, 117. Eudoxus’ error concerning its rising, 126. True rising, 138. Setting, 139. Ascii, 90. Asini, celestial body, 7. Aspect of the signs, 4. Their use, 5. Error of the ancients concerning them, 6. True syzygies of the signs, 7. Astraeus, author of astronomy, 73. Astrum or sidus and stella, how they differ, 79. Atabyrius mountain, height less than 14 stadia, 32. Athens, its position and arctic, 102. Two Athenses, 148. Atreus, author of astronomy, 73, 94. Attalus, interpreter of Aratus, is frequently criticized by Hipparchus, 197 and following. Author, 165. Auriga, its shoulder rises in the evening, 42, 45, 46. The following shoulder rises in the morning, 49. Is hidden, 50. The following shoulder rises in the evening, 52. Error of Eudoxus and Aratus concerning Auriga, 105. It has no stars in its knees, 113. Co-rising, 134. Authentes, 165. Axis, what it is, 8, 88, 144. Bootes. See Arctophylax. Boule, 165.
C Heaven moves from east to west, 25. Nature of heaven, 76. What it is, 77. Callippic period, 23. Callippus made observations at the Hellespont, 53. Cancer, this constellation does not fill its dodecatemorion, 1. Rises by Callippus, 36. Declination of some of its stars, 114. Aratus' error concerning its rising, 120. Hipparchean rising, 136. Descent, 137. Canicula is not the cause of heat, 33. Rises, 36, 37. Greatest magnitude of stars in the jaw of the Dog, 143. Dog (Canis) is hidden, 49. Rises, 51, 52. Rising of the Dog, 134. Setting, 136. Rises on the 7th of August, 143. Canis Major, 8. Sets, 38, 39. Rises in the morning, 44. Sets, 45. Rises in the evening, 46. Canopus, 8. Rises, 42. Sets in the morning, 43, 44. Rises in the evening, 47. Is hidden, 48, 49. Rises, 53. Capra (the Goat) rises, 37. Sets, 37. Sets in the morning, 38. Rises in the morning, 39. Rises in the evening, 42, 43. Sets in the morning, 45. Rises in the morning, 48, 49. Sets in the evening, 50. Rises in the evening, 52. Capricorn rises, 38. Eudoxus' error concerning its rising, 125. True rising, 137. Setting, 139. Cardines (Cardinals/Hinges), Eudoxus established them in the middle of the signs, 104, 105, 119, 120. [He] proves that Aratus also placed the beginning of the signs, but Eudoxus [placed them] in the middle, 120. Contrary to the ancients, who placed them at the beginning, 120. Cassiopeia, and Aratus' lapse concerning her, 106. Her declination, 116. Centaurus, incorrectly placed by Aratus, 111. Its position on the equinoctial, 117. Centaur's Baretov, 45, 47, 49, 50. Anterior foot, 49. Co-rising, 133, 134. Cepheus, where he is within the arctic circle, 87. Eudoxus' and Aratus' error concerning him, 105, 125. In what part of Greece he rises, 109. Distance of his stars from the pole, 109. Position of the same on the equinoctial, 117. His rising, 129. Co-setting, 131. Cetus, its rising, 134. Setting, 135. Southern Chelae (Claws) is set/founded, 42, 43. The northern is hidden, 43, sets in the morning, 49. The northern sets in the morning, 50. Attalus' error concerning the Chelae, 104. The bright [star] of the northern [Chela] is near the equinoctial, the others are further south, 115. Eudoxus and Aratus are refuted concerning the rising of the Chelae, 124. True rising, 137. Setting, 139. Years of Christ, 181. Homeric Cimmerians, 14. Circles, by what rationale they are divided into parts, 87. They lack width, 112. Coluri, 11, 88. Whence named, 11, 88, 96. Eudoxean, 116, 145. Comets, 91. Various species, 91. Conon made observations in Italy, 53. Corvus (the Crow) is not on the equinoctial, 115. Co-rising, 115. Co-setting, 135. Corona (the Crown) rises in the morning, 37. Sets, 37. Rises in the evening, 38, 39, 43. Rises in the morning, 43. Sets in the evening, 44, 45. Rises in the evening, 47. Sets, 50, 51. Sets in the morning, 51. Rising of the asterism according to Hipparchus, 127, 128. Co-setting, 130. Crater (the Cup) is not on the equinoctial, 115. Co-rising, 133. Co-setting, 135. Cycles of the sun and moon. Maximus and Isaac deal with these copiously, 170 and following, 191 and following.
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Cygnus, the bright star of, sets in the morning, 42, 43. It rises in the morning, 41, 43; it sets, 2. Aratus' lapse concerning it, 107. The declination of its stars, 114, 116. Its rising, 128. Co-setting, 130. Cyllene, a mountain 15 stadia high, 32.
D Delphinus sets in the morning, 37. It rises, 38. It sets in the evening, 38. It rises in the evening, 39. The co-rising of Delphinus, 129. Co-setting, 131. Day, natural and artificial, 13. Where it is longest, 14. The increments of days, 15. The ancients thought them to be at their greatest during the whole of Cancer, and at their shortest during the whole of Capricorn, 27. The inequality of days, 87. The beginning of the day, Gaza, ch. xx. Dositheus made observations at Cologne, 55. Draco, its position is incorrectly established by Eudoxus, Aratus, and others, 102. The head of the same is incorrectly placed by these same authors, 102. The distance of the bright star in the jaw from the pole, 102. Likewise of the southern eye, 102. The declination of the left temple, 116.
E Eclipses of the sun and moon, when they occur, 19. The theory of a solar eclipse is explained, 24. How the sun is entirely eclipsed, 24. How a lunar one occurs, 25. Unequal magnitude, 25. See Sun and Moon. Ecliptic, 84, 146. Elaphebolion, Gaza, ch. ii. Embolisms, 175. Enneadecaeteris of Euctemon and Calippus, 23. Epacts of the moon, Gaza, ch. xv and xvi. Maximus, ch. xxvii. Epacts of the sun, 178, 180. Equus sets in the morning, 58. Declination of the loin, 115. Rising of Equus, 129. Co-setting, 131. Eratosthenes wrote on the octaeteris, 19. Etesian winds and their precursors, 37, 61. Eudoxus: where he observed, 53. He wrote two books, the *Mirror* and the *Phænomena*, 98. He began to discuss current northern stars, 100. He wrote on the *Phænomena* with little skill, 126, 127. Exhalations, 144.
F Feræ, or the rising of Lupus, 134. Investigation of holidays, 177, 178, 196. Fluvius: the last star of, sets in the morning, 42, 43. It rises in the evening, 45, 46. It is hidden, 47, 48. It rises, 50, 52. The rising of the Fluvius of Orion, 131. Setting, 136. Fordicidia, 66.
G Gamelion, Gaza, ch. iii. Gemini: they rise, 39. The head of the preceding Gemini rises in the evening, 44, 45. It sets in the morning, 46. The head of the antecedent one is hidden, 50. The head of the antecedent rises, 51. The head of the succeeding one rises, 51. Hipparchus teaches from the declination that the heads of Gemini are not in the tropic, 113. Hipparchus argues against Eudoxus and Attalus regarding the rising of the Gemini constellation, 127. True rising, 86. Setting, 140. The position of Greece is incorrectly handed down by Aratus and other ancients, 101. The ancient Greeks wished to regulate the year by the sun and the months by the moon, 18. By what reasoning they sacrificed according to three things, from the oracle, 18.
H Habitations on the sphere, 11. Hædi rise, 122. Hecatombaion, Gaza, ch. v. Heteroscii, 90. Hilaria, 71. Hipparchus: where he observed, 53. He wrote on the co-risings of stars, 122. Homer was an astronomer, 74. Aratus defines hours badly from the observation of the signs, 118 and following. Horizon: twofold, sensible and based on reason, 12. This changes at an interval of 400 stadia, 12. Poets take the Ocean for the horizon, 51, 84, 96. Hyades rise in the evening, 37. They set, 38. They set in the evening, 39. They rise in the evening, 39. They rise in the morning, 39. The bright star of the Hyades rises in the evening, 44. It sets in the morning, 44. It is occulted, 48, 49. It rises in the evening, 50. It rises in the morning, 50. The bright star of Hydra rises, 52. Its position on the equinoctial, 116. Co-rising, 133. Co-setting, 135.
I Indiction. Maximus, 181. Ingeniculus (Hercules): the hallucination of Eudoxus and Aratus concerning him, 102. His co-rising according to Hipparchus, 128. Co-setting, 150. The Greeks falsely believed that the Isia fell on the winter solstice perpetually, 19. Which, however, Achilles Tatius teaches, 85. The festival day of the *Navigium Isidis*, 68.
J Fast of the SS. Apostles, 203. Fast of the seventh month, 177, 202. The beginning of the fasts, 177. The rising of St. John, 182. Juvenalia, 68.
L Milky Way (Lacteus circulus), 12, 83, 86, 96, 113. Position of the Læstrigones, 13. The "Laterculum" of the Great Bear, 104. The constellation Leo exceeds its own dodecatemorion, 1. Rising, 37. Sets, 38. The tail rises, 42. It rises in the evening, 47, 48. The tail is hidden, 52. The head rises, 52. The distance of some of its stars from the equinoctial, 114. Leo's heart, 7. It rises in the evening, 46. It is occulted, 51. It rises, 52. Hipparchus argues against Eudoxus and Aratus concerning the rising of the constellation Leo, 122 and following. True co-rising, 137. Descent, 138. Rising of Lepus, 134. Setting, 136. Libra sets, 39. Games: Palatine, 67. Gottici, 67. Genialici, 67. Votivi, 68. Apollinares, 69, 70. Francici, 70. Neptunalici, 70. Of the Sun and Moon, 70. Romaniani, 70. Fatales, 71. Alamannici, 71. Lancionici, 72. Apparitions of the moon, 18. Exact lunar syzygy, 21. How it is illuminated by the sun, 23, 24. Its differing phases, 25. Eclipse. The evolution of the moon, or its movement, 35. Accurate investigation of the moon's motion, 35 and thereafter. Its nature, 83. Defect, 83. Facies, 83. Like a mirror, 83. Facies, 145. Effect, 162. Lunar year, 171. Lyra, 8. It sets, 37. It rises in the morning, 37. It sets in the evening, 37. It sets in the evening, 48. It rises in the evening, 48, 49. It sets in the morning. Hipparchus, 128. Co-setting, 130.
M Macroscii, 90. Mæmacterion, 157. Masters swear, 72. Mammes vintage, 70. Differentiation of mathematics and physics, 75. What a month is, 18. With the ancients, the lunar was of thirty days, 20. With the Attic, Gaza, ch. 155. What a meridian is, 12. It changes at an interval of three hundred stadia, 12. It teaches that this happens at four hundred, 30. What it is, 84. Metagitnion, 157. What meteora and metarsia are, 91. Meton observed at Athens and elsewhere, 53. Metrodorus observed in Italy, 53. The world (mundus) is understood in various ways, 77. Figure, 77. Whether there is anything outside it, 78. Whether it stands still, 78, 144. Munychion, Gaza, ch. iii and iv.
N Nicander the Younger on Aratus, 149.
O Ocean for the horizon. See Horizon. Octaeteris of the Greeks, 20. It does not agree with the moon's motion, 21. Ophiuchus incorrectly constituted by Eudoxus and Aratus, 105. Declination of the right shoulder, 114. Declination of the knees, 115. His co-rising according to Hipparchus, 128. Co-setting, 130. Orion rises in the morning, 36, 37. It rises in the evening, 37. It sets in the evening, 39. The rising of Orion and the common river, 44. Other stars of the same, 44, 45, 48, 49, 50, 51. Its belt is on the equinoctial, 115. Co-rising, 134. Co-setting, 135. It is called *Aterpodion* by the common people, 143. It rises July 22, 143. *Opo* for the Phrygians is "above," 77. Rising and setting of stars, 27 and following. What the rising and setting are, 27. Matutinal and vespertine rising, 27 and following. Apparent and true, 27. True matutinal risings and settings precede the apparent ones, 28. Apparent vespertine risings and settings are earlier than the true ones, 28. By what interval a matutinal rising is distant from a vespertine one, 28. Not all stars that rise together, set together; nor do those setting together rise together, but the northern ones rise sooner and set later, 28. Some rise with these, 29. Tatius discusses the rising and setting of stars, 93, 94. Concerning co-risings and...
settings, whether false or true, Hipparchus treats this in books 1 and 2. See also page 143, etc. Oschophoria, 157, 158.
P Palamedes, author of astronomy, 73. Parallel circles in a sphere, 9. Why five are described for the sun, 9. Their distance, 11, 86, 87. Intervals of the parallels in a sphere, 87. Paschal month, 176 et seq., 199 et seq. Concerning the correction of the Paschal cycle, Isaac, 16. Perioeci, 29, 89. Regarding Perseus, the error of Aratus, 107. The declination of some of his stars, 113. His position, 117. Co-rising, 129. Co-setting, 132, 133. Perseus rises, 38. Rises in the evening, 42. Sets, 44, 45. Rises, 48. Sets in the evening, 49. Rises in the evening, 49, 51, 52. Phenomena, those who wrote on them, 149. Philippus the astronomer, 23. Philippus the astrologer observed in the Peloponnese and Locris, 53. Piscis Notius (Southern Fish) rises, 38, 42, 46, 48, 51, 52. Rising, 131. Setting, 135. True rising, 138. Setting, 159. The knot of the Fishes rises, 39. Piscis Boreus (Northern Fish) rises, 48. Declaration, 115. The position of the knot of the Fishes on the equinoctial, 117. The rising of the Fishes as defined by Eudoxus and Aratus is refuted, 125, 126. Planets, seven, 3. They move in the direction contrary to the movement of the heaven, 25. The opinion of those who deny this is refuted, 26. Order of the planets, 80. Names, 80. Harmony, 80. Motion and intervals, 81. What it means for them to be positioned in a certain sign, 9. Pleiades rise in the evening, 37. Set in the morning, 37, 38. Are hidden in the evening, 39. The Pleiad rises, 39. That there are seven, 107. Pole, what it is, 8, 88. Eudoxus placed it at a star, 39. That there are two poles with as many stars, according to the opinion of some, 145. Posideon, concerning it, Gaza, chap. ii, 154. Principles of things according to the philosophers, 75 et seq., 94. Procyon, 8. Sets in the morning, 45, 46. Rises in the evening, 45. Pyanepsion, 157, 158. Pytheas of Massilia, his narrative, 13.
R Regulares, 19. In Rhodes, the longest day, 2, 13. In Rome, the longest day, 15.
S Sagitta sets, 37. Rising of the asterisms, 78. Setting, 131. Sagittarius rises, 38. The knee sets, 42, 43, 44. The knee rises, 46, 47. Sets in the morning, 50. Rises in the evening, 51. Concerning its rising, Eudoxus, etc., is refuted, 124. True rising, 137. Setting, 139. Sais, a double city, 148. Day of blood, 68. Saturnalia, 72. Scorpius rises in the evening, 37. The forehead rises heliacally, 37. The bright star of Scorpius, which is also Antares, rises, 38. The sting rises, 43. Sets in the morning, 43. Rises, 44. Rises in the evening, 49. Sets in the morning, 49, 50. Its distance from the pole, 111. Declination of the stars of the sting, 115. Concerning the rising of Scorpius, the error of Eudoxus and Attalus, 124. True rising, 137. Setting, 139. Co-rising of Serpentis Ophiuchi, 128. Co-setting, 130. Distances of the stars from one another by hourly intervals, defined by Hipparchus, 140 et seq. Signs of the Zodiac, some are starry, others are dodecatemoria: of which the former part do not fill, and part exceed, the twelfth part of the circle, 1. Some of the starry ones are more boreal than the zodiac; some are more austral, 2. For the aspect of the signs, see Aspectus. Rising and setting of the signs of the zodiac, 16. On any day and night, six rise and six set, 16, 17. Concerning the error of the ancients regarding their risings and settings, 17. In how many days individual signs are traversed by the sun, 56 et seq. Concerning the starry signs of the zodiac and others, 84, 85. Solar anomaly is clarified, 2 et seq. It moves in an eccentric, 3. Through which parts of the zodiac it moves for a longer time, 3, 4. See in Eclipsis. It moves in a motion contrary to the world, 25. The opinion of those who deny this is refuted, 26. Regarding the nature of the sun, 81, 82. Its eclipse, 82. Magnitude, 82. Its motion, 82, 85. That there were only two cities of the sun, 148. Solstices, what they are, 2. Circles of the sphere, 8, 84. Aratea, 91. Varied position of the sphere, 87, 93. How it is to be taught, 142, 145, 146. Description of the stars, 7. Concerning their rising and setting, see Ortus. Significations, or [Greek: ἐπισημασίαι], 32 et seq. The question that stars have no power to cause changes in the air and tempests is discussed at length, 32 et seq. Where he shows that they are signs only, not causes. Whether they are igneous, 83. The star of the Ptolemaic parapegma, 53. Star, what it is, 78. Some are fixed, others are wandering, 78. What their nature is, 79. Figure, 79, 145. And yet they are confused, 79, 145. Regarding their names, 128. Hipparchus numbered 1080 stars, 145. Positions of some stars according to the circle parallel to the equinoctial, 104.
T The tail of Taurus sets, 37. The horns set, 38. The tail rises, 39. Regarding the rising of Taurus, Eudoxus and Aratus are refuted, 127. True rising, 138. Setting, 139, 140. Tempests of the four seasons, 2. By what interval they remain, 2. Tiberinalia, 70. Terminalia, 66. Parts of the habitable earth, 29. Some have said it moves, 95. Thargelia feast, and the month of the same name, Gaza, cap. iv, 155. Tropical circles, 9. The summer one is cut variously by the horizon, 13, 85. The ratio of the summer tropic from Aratus, 86. The winter tropic likewise, 9, 10, 87, 96. The summer tropic as circumscribed by Eudoxus and Aratus, and the inquiry of Hipparchus into it, 113 et seq. Regarding the winter tropic of Eudoxus and Aratus, 114, 115, 142, 143, 145. Tubilustrium, 66.
U Distinctions of shadows based on the location of regions, 90. Undecuplatores, Maximi cap. xi, 174 et seq. and in a part of Computi. Urna, a constellation, 7. Two Bears, and the lapse of Eudoxus and Aratus concerning them, 104. The ancients defined both by seven stars, 104. Position of some stars of Ursa Major in the circle parallel to the equinoctial, 116. Declination of the feet, 116. The head of Ursa Minor, that is, the most boreal one in the table, is in the last part of Scorpius in the parallel circle, 108. Position of its head on the equinoctial, 122.
V Ornithian winds, 47, 48. What wind is, 91. Their various names, 91. Vergiliae. See Pleiades. Vindemiator, 7. Rises, 37. Virgo rises, 37. Concerning the rising of Virgo, 125, where Hipparchus refutes Eudoxus and Attalus. True rising, 137. Setting, 137. Rises in the evening, 48. Sets in the morning, 48. Is hidden, 32. Vulcanalia, 70.
Z Zodiac and its division, 1, 12. Its rising latitude, 16. Zones, 29 et seq. Their distance, 30. Some have maintained that the torrid zone is surrounded by Ocean, 31. Which is refuted at length, 31. Polybius taught that the torrid zone is more suitable for habitation under the equinoctial than under the tropics, 31. Tatius deals with the zones, 88, 89. What their interval is, 88, 89. How many there are, 90, 96. That the torrid zone is inhabited, 90, 96, 144, 147.
ORDER OF SUBJECTS CONTAINED IN THIS VOLUME
EUSEBIUS PAMPHILI, BISHOP OF CAESAREA Notitia. 9 On the life and writings of Eusebius of Caesarea. 53 Testimonies of the ancients in favor of Eusebius. 65 Testimonies of the ancients against Eusebius. 83
TWO BOOKS OF CHRONICLES Preface. 99 BOOK ONE. 99 Proemium. 101
Chapter I. — On the manner in which the Chaldeans construct their chronology, from Alexander Polyhistor. And on the books of the Chaldeans, and on their first kingdom. 106 Chapter II. — On the improbable history of the Chaldeans. From the same Alexander Polyhistor, regarding the aforementioned book of the Chaldeans. 108 Chapter III. — Alexander Polyhistor on the flood. From the same aforementioned book. 114 Chapter IV. — Alexander Polyhistor on the building of the tower. 116 Chapter V. — By the same Alexander, on Sennacherib and on Nebuchadnezzar, and on their affairs, deeds, and heroic exploits. 118 Chapter VI. — Abydenus on the first kingdom of the Chaldeans. 121 Chapter VII. — Abydenus on the flood. 121 Chapter VIII. — Abydenus on the building of the tower. 123 Chapter IX. — Abydenus on Sennacherib. 123 Chapter X. — Abydenus on Nebuchadnezzar. 124 Chapter XI. — From the first book of the History of the Ancients of Josephus. On Nebuchadnezzar. 126 Chapter XII. — Abydenus on the kingdom of the Assyrians. 132 Chapter XIII. — From the summary of Castor. On the kingdom of the Assyrians. 132 Chapter XIV. — From the book of Diodorus. On the kingdom of the Assyrians. 133 Chapter XV. — Of the historian Cephalion. On the kingdom of the Assyrians. 136 Chapter XVI. — On the manner in which chronology is transmitted by the Hebrews. 143 Chapter XVII. — Josephus, from the testimony of the Phoenicians, on the building of the temple in Jerusalem. 170 Chapter XVIII. — On the Babylonian captivity of the Jews and the remaining times thereof. 174 Chapter XIX. — How in the chronology of the Egyptians the times of the Ethiopians also are contained. Likewise how the Ptolemies held Egypt and Alexandria. On the method of chronology among the Egyptians. 181 Chapter XX. — From the Egyptian monuments of Manetho, who divided his history into three books. De diis et de heroibus, on the manes and the mortal kings who presided over Egypt up to the Persian king Darius. 182 Chapter XXI. — From the books of Josephus and Manetho. 191 Chapter XXII. — Who held the kingdom of Egypt and the city of Alexandria after Alexander of Macedon. From the book of Porphyry. 200 Chapter XXIII. — Of the Greeks. On the manner in which the Greeks write their antiquities. 209 Chapter XXIV. — On the times of the Greeks. 209 Chapter XXV. — The kings of the Sicyonians. 210 Chapter XXVI. — Castor on the kingdom of the Argives. 212 Chapter XXVII. — The kings of the Argives. 213 Chapter XXVIII. — Summarily on the kings of the Athenians. 215 Chapter XXIX. — Castor on the kingdom of the Athenians. 216 Chapter XXX. — The kings of the Athenians. 216 Chapter XXXI. — From the first book of the philosophical history of Porphyry. 220 Chapter XXXII. — The Olympiads of the Greeks. 221 Chapter XXXIII. — The Olympiads of the Greeks. 225 Chapter XXXIV. — On the kings of the Corinthians. From the Bibliotheca of Diodorus. 241 Chapter XXXV. — The kings of the Lacedaemonians from the books of Diodorus. 243 Chapter XXXVI. — From the books of Diodorus, briefly on the times of those who held the maritime empire. 244 Chapter XXXVII. — The kings of the Macedonians from the books of Diodorus. 245 Chapter XXXVIII. — The kings of the Macedonians after Alexander. 253 Chapter XXXIX. — The kings of the Thessalians. 253 Chapter XL. — The kings of the Asians and Syrians. 257 Chapter XLI. — On the principal authors from whom this work was excerpted. 267 Chapter XLII. — The times of the Romans. 268 Chapter XLIII. — From the first book of the Roman History of Dionysius of Halicarnassus. On the first inhabitants of Rome. 269 Chapter XLIV. — From the same book. On the time of the arrival of Aeneas in Italy. 272 Chapter XLV. — On the founding of the city of Rome. 275 Chapter XLVI. — From the seventh book of Diodorus. On the race of the ancient Romans. 280 Chapter XLVII. — Dionysius of Halicarnassus on the kings who existed in Rome after Romulus. 284 Chapter XLVIII. — Castor on the Roman empire. 286 Chapter XLIX. — Emperors and consuls of the Romans from Julius Caesar up to the vicennalia of Constantine. 287
BOOK TWO. 313 Preface of St. Jerome. 313 Proemium. 315 Series of Kings. 325 CHRONICLE CANON. 318
WHAT IS CONTAINED IN THIS VOLUME
APPENDIX TO THE CHRONICLE OF EUSEBIUS. SAMUEL OF ANI. 600 RATIO OF TIMES up to his own age. 600 Preface of Samuel. 600 FIRST PART OF THE SUMMARY OF TIMES. 600 CAP. I. — What ratio of times is described among the Septuagint Interpreters from Adam to the flood. 610 CAP. II. — What ratio of times is described among the Septuagint Interpreters from Shem to the first year of Abraham. 611 CAP. III. — On Cainan and certain others. 612 CAP. IV. — The divisions of nations. 614 CAP. V. — The lineage of Shem. 616 CAP. VI. — The lineage of Ham. 623 CAP. VII. — The Armenian lineage of Japheth. 633 SECOND PART OF THE SUMMARY OF TIMES. 643 CHRONOLOGICAL AND ASTRONOMICAL WORKS OF ANCIENT WRITERS. 713 Admonition of Denis Petau. 743 Eulogy of Hipparchus from the Suda. 745 On Achilles Tatius from the same. 745 ELEMENTS OF ASTRONOMY BY GEMINUS. 747 CAP. I. 747 CAP. II. — On the signs which are marked by stars, or on the constellations. 767 CAP. III. — On the axis and the poles. 770 CAP. IV. — On the circles of the sphere. 771 CAP. V. — On day and night. 786 CAP. VI. — On the months. 799 CAP. VII. — On the illuminations of the moon. 815 CAP. VIII. — On the eclipse of the sun. 819 CAP. IX. — On the eclipses of the moon. 822 CAP. X. — That the planets move in a direction contrary to the world. 823 CAP. XI. — On risings and settings. 827 CAP. XII. — On the zones on the earth. 834 CAP. XIII. — On habitations. 834 CAP. XIV. — On the significations of the stars. 843 CAP. XV. — On evolution. 854 CAP. XVI. — The times of the signs through which the sun traverses each one of them: and the significations of the individual signs are of such a kind. 858 Judgment of Denis Petau on the following booklet. 867 PTOLEMY ON THE APPARITIONS OF THE FIXED STARS AND THEIR SIGNIFICATIONS. 869 Significations of the fixed stars. 905 Ancient Roman Calendar. 913 Explanation of the ancient Roman calendar. 925 Roman calendar in the times of Constantine the Great. 927 INTRODUCTION OF ACHILLES TATIUS TO THE PHENOMENA OF ARATUS. 933 Certain fragments of the same Achilles Tatius. 995 THREE BOOKS OF ENARRATIONS OF HIPPARCHUS OF BITHYNIA ON THE PHENOMENA OF ARATUS AND EUDOXUS. 1001 BOOK OF AN UNCERTAIN AUTHOR ON THE PHENOMENA OF ARATUS. 1135 THEODORE GAZA’S BOOK ON THE MONTHS. 1167 ECCLESIASTICAL COMPUTUS OF ST. MAXIMUS THE CONFESSOR. 1218 ECCLESIASTICAL COMPUTUS OF ISAAC THE MONK. 1279 Another computus of the same Isaac the monk. 1315 ST. ANDREW OF CRETE ON THE SOLAR AND LUNAR CYCLE. 1329 OF AETIUS ON THE SIGNIFICATIONS OF THE STARS. 1333 Dissertation on the rising and setting of the stars. 1337 Proemium. 1337 CAP. I. — On the partition of the equinoctial and the zodiac established by the Chaldeans, Egyptians, and Greeks. 1339 CAP. II. — On the longitude and latitude of the stars, where the opinion of the ancient astronomers is set forth, that both were considered along the equinoctial circle. 1342 CAP. III. — The opinion of Eudoxus set forth, contrary to what Hipparchus thought. The error of the same Hipparchus, who confuses the dodecatemoria with the asterisms. Aratus and Servius illustrated. 1346 CAP. IV. — On the opinion of the ancients concerning the annual hinges of the sun, and by what reckoning they were placed elsewhere than at the beginnings of the signs. Columella is noted. The significant epoch of the Sothic period. 1351 CAP. V. — The opinions of the ancients concerning the annual hinges are illustrated more fully; and it is taught against Scaliger that they were never established by them elsewhere than at the intersections of the circles; then concerning the equinoxes and solstices of Sosigenes or Julius Caesar. Servius is noted. Varro and Pliny are explained. The inconstancy of Sosigenes. 1356 CAP. VI. — On the false opinion of Scaliger concerning the solstices of the ancient astronomers. Against whom it is demonstrated that they neither thought that the meridian under the tropic occurred perpetually, nor the solstice in the entire dodecatemoria. Geminus is explained. 1359 CAP. VII. — The opinion of the ancients on the hinges is defended against Geminus. Signs that are commanding, obeying, or beholding are explained according to the reasonings of Ptolemy, Paulus Alexandrinus, Manilius, and Firmicus. There are strange hallucinations of Scaliger in these matters and in the place of Firmicus. 1363 CAP. VIII. — On distinguishing the risings and settings of the stars, which are mentioned by authors: this matter is instructed with certain rules and examples; Theophrastus, Varro, Pliny, Columella, Ptolemy, and others are either illustrated or corrected; what is the temporary and late admission. The place in Genesis is explained. 1368 CAP. IX. — Concerning the rising and setting of the Pleiades, those things which have been handed down by the ancients to memory are explained. A place of Virgil concerning them is inextricable. Most authors are explained or corrected. 1376 CAP. X. — On the bipartite division of the year, which very many attribute to Virgil. 1381 CAP. XI. — Many places of the ancients on the rising and setting of the Dog Star, as well as on Procyon, are diligently weighed. 1386 CAP. XII. — On the time of the harvest in Egypt and Palestine on the occasion of the rising of the Pleiades; and on the second-first Sabbath; the reasoning of which is defended as it was handed down in the Animadversions on the Epiphania, and the objections against it are solved. The first month was adapted by the Hebrews to the time of new fruits. The maturity of fruits is twofold. The place of the evangelist Mark is illustrated. 1391 Dissertation on the eras and computi of the Greeks. 1395 CAP. I. — On the triple era of the Greeks, which is reduced to two. Panodorus’s Chronology is illustrated. Maximus, George Syncellus, Theophanes, and others are noted. 1395 CAP. II. — On the annual computus of the ancients, especially Africanus, released from the bonds of method. The Chronicon of the same Africanus is illustrated. An obscure place of Photius is explained. Cestus of Africanus. 1402 CAP. III. — On the eras of the Greeks, insofar as they are implicated with paschal methods and cycles. The computus of Panodorus is illustrated. From it was propagated another which Maximus uses. 1403 CAP. IV. — A notable fragment of Theophanes for explaining the system of Greek computi, and the notes pertaining to the same. 1410 CAP. V. — On the epoch of the Greek computi in the Julian year, and concerning the method of cycles in them. Maximus is illustrated. 1416 CAP. VI. — Those things which Scaliger explained about Greek computi in his VII book on the emendation of times are refuted, and the same are rendered clearer by various examples. 1421 CAP. VII. — On the method of the Greek paschal computi and first on the phase of the moon, or the feria to be sought. All its elements are set forth; what the regulars are, the concurrents, etc. Scaliger’s error in these matters. Maximus and Isaac are set forth. 1425 CAP. VIII. — The method of the moon in the computus of Maximus, or the Alexandrian, is explained. The epacts of the moon, its regulars, and the propagation of both. 1428 CAP. IX. — On the method of the moon in the Constantinopolitan computus. 1431 CAP. X. — On the lunar phase, and the ridiculous reasoning of Isaac Argyrus concerning the terms. The fourteenth day of the Pasch.
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CAP. XI. — Another method of the Pasch is explained, which is discerned in the computus of Saint Andrew. 1440
CAP. XII. — The use of the aforementioned Greek computus is declared, and it is demonstrated by examples of the principal feasts. 1442
CAP. XIII. — The method of the Greek computus, which has been handed down by Maximus, Isaac, and others, is set forth in the most expeditious way by means of tables and canons. 1444
CAP. XIV. — Concerning the Paschal computus and method of certain men whom St. Maximus names *pendecadontas* and *hexadecadontas*; we call them "undecuplatores" [the eleven-fold reckoners], whose rationale, which seemed almost inextricable to Scaliger, is declared to be most easy. Concerning the error of Scaliger regarding the same. 1455
CAP. XV. — That those "undecuplatores," of whom Maximus treats, used the Constantinopolitan computus and the method of Victorinus or the Latins, in such a way, however, that they did not deviate from the institution of the Catholics, contrary to what Maximus and Scaliger supposed. 1457
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