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... the orbit of Saturn ; who reckoned the planets to be sixteen in number ; who
reckoned the length of the tropical year within three minutes of the true time , nor
indeed were they wrong at all if a tradition mentioned by Plutarch be correct .
... the orbit of Saturn ; who reckoned the planets to be sixteen in number ; who
reckoned the length of the tropical year within three minutes of the true time , nor
indeed were they wrong at all if a tradition mentioned by Plutarch be correct .
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The people who employed the Saros and the Metonic Cycle , who measured an
arc of the meridian , and the distances of our earth from the sun and the moon ,
and who ascertained so nearly the true length of the solar year , were assuredly ...
The people who employed the Saros and the Metonic Cycle , who measured an
arc of the meridian , and the distances of our earth from the sun and the moon ,
and who ascertained so nearly the true length of the solar year , were assuredly ...
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the true length of the solar year , were assuredly people who preceded the
Druids , but bequeathed to them no part of their mantle , when they disappeared
from the earth ; for there is no evidence that the Druids possessed this knowledge
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the true length of the solar year , were assuredly people who preceded the
Druids , but bequeathed to them no part of their mantle , when they disappeared
from the earth ; for there is no evidence that the Druids possessed this knowledge
. 6.
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... and fiction , they rest so much upon vague tradition , so little attention is paid in
discriminating and weighing the sources of information , that what Quinctilian and
Strabo say of ancient Greek and Roman history , is true of all early accounts .
... and fiction , they rest so much upon vague tradition , so little attention is paid in
discriminating and weighing the sources of information , that what Quinctilian and
Strabo say of ancient Greek and Roman history , is true of all early accounts .
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This is Mr. Davies ' notion , ingenious at least , if not true . Abaris . ( p . 123. )
Called Scythian by Suidas , but from the accounts of him by Hecateus in Diod .
Sic . ( lib . iii . ch . 11 , ) and by Porphyry in his Life of Pythagoras , and by
Jamblichus ...
This is Mr. Davies ' notion , ingenious at least , if not true . Abaris . ( p . 123. )
Called Scythian by Suidas , but from the accounts of him by Hecateus in Diod .
Sic . ( lib . iii . ch . 11 , ) and by Porphyry in his Life of Pythagoras , and by
Jamblichus ...
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