NUNDINAL CALENDARS OF ANCIENT ITALY,

NUNDINAL CALENDAR OF ROMULUS,

CALENDAR OF NUMA POMPILIUS,

CALENDAR OF THE DECEMVIRS,

IRREGULAR ROMAN CALENDAR,

AND

JULIAN CORRECTION.

TABLES OF THE ROMAN CALENDAR,

FROM

U.C. 4 OF VARRO B. C. 750 TO U. C. 1108 A. D. 355.

BY

EDWARD GRESWELL, B.D.

FELLOW OF CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE, OXFORD.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

VOLUME III.

OXFORD:

AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.

M.DCCC.LIV.

Clar. Press

31.0.45.

ORIGINES KALENDARIE ITALICE.

ON THE CALENDARS OF ANCIENT ITALY.

DISSERTATION XII.

On the Verification of the Roman Calendar by the testimony of Eclipses.

CHAPTER I.

SECTION I-Of the Eclipses on record in Roman history.

THE number of eclipses which are found upon record in Ro

THE

man history at present is small; though there is reason to believe that not only every phenomenon of that kind, which was actually observed at Rome or in its vicinity, but even the most casual affections of the air and the heavens were carefully entered in the journals kept by the pontiffs, and called the Annales Maximi1. Still there are as many as may suffice to test and confirm the truth of our Roman calendar from first to last, so long as it stands in need of any such confirmation. And forasmuch as a criterion and proof of this kind will be allowed upon all hands to be one of the most critical and convincing to which we could possibly appeal; though each of these eclipses has been already noticed, or will have to be so hereafter, in its proper order of time, we think it advisable to bring them together; in order that their cu1 Diss. ch. ii. sect. ii. Vol. i. p. 28.