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From De Die Natale, by Censorinus,translated into English by William Maude, New York: The Cambridge Encyclopedia Co., 1900; pp. 41 to 42.

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CENSORINUS

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Alban months,   27,   34.

Alban progenitors of the Romans,   27,   34.

Alexander the Great, k. Macedon,    33.

Anno Mundi, unknown to the Romans,   30n.

Annus Magnus, (Apis cycle),   33.

Antoninus Pius, emp. Rome,   33.

Aphrodisius, (Greek astronomer),   25.

Aretes of Dyrrachium,   23,   31.

Arganthonius of Tartessus,   15.

Aricia,months of,   34.

Aristarchus of Samos,   23,   25.

Aristotle of Stagyra,   12,   13,   23.

Aristoxenes,   9.

Asclepiades,   9.

Augustus (Divus Filius),   17,   18,   19n,   21n,   29n,   32,   36,   40n.

Augustan æra, the,   32,   32n

Ausonius, Roman poet,   29n.

Autumnal equinox,   33.

Bacchus (see also Liber Pater),   26n,   31,   35.

Berosius (priest of Belus),   16.

Brumalia (now Christmas),   33,   33n.

Calendar, Julian reformation of the,   30.

Calippus of Cyzicus, his cycle,   22,   25.

Canicular star and year,   22,   23.

Capitoline games (Roman),   24.

Caracalla, emp. Rome,   18.

Carneades (astron. and philos.),   13.

Carthage, æra of its foundation,   32n.

Cassandrus, his cycle,   23.

Cataclysms, deluges, conflagrations,   23,   30.

Censorinus, the author, his biography,   5.

Censorinus, various members of his family,   5.

Censorinus, Ap. Claud., emp. Rome,   6.

Censorinus, C., the orator,   5.

Censorinus, L. Marcius, consul,   5,   18.

Cerellius, a roman equite,   7,   14.

Chaldean cycle,   22.

Charlemagne names the months,   36n.

Chorœbus (olympiads of), B.C. 776,   31n.

Chronology of the Julian year,   26n.

Cicero, his eulogy of Varro,   31n.

Cicero, his year of Rome,   32n.

Claudius, emp. Rome (his Ludi Sæc),   18.

Cleostrates of Tenedos (astron),   21.

Clepsydra, or water clock,   38.

Conflagration of the earth,   23.

Ctesibius, of Alexandria, B.C. 250,   38n.

Cycles (chiefly intercalary),   21.

Day, beginning of the, various customs,   36.

Day, divisions of the,   38.

Del Mar’s historical works cited,   32n.

Deluges, inundations, cataclysms,   23.

Democrisus, of Abdera,   13.

Diogenes, the cynic,   13.

Dion, the mathematician,   23.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus,   32n.

Dionysius, Heracleotes,   13.

Dionysius, the god (see Bacchus).

Dioscorides, astronomer,   19.

Divorce case, singular, how decided,   37n.

Divus Augustus (see Augustus).

Domitian, emp. Rome,   18,   24,   36n

Dorylaus, on heavenly music,   10.

Dositheus, on the octæteris,   22.

Dress of the Byzantine emperors,   26n.

Earth, circumference of the,   10.

Easter, (see Vernal Equinox).

Eclipses, custom of counting by,   31.

Egyptian year, length of the,   22,   25,   26.

Egypto-Roman æra,   32.

Ennius (Roman poet),   25,   32n,   39.

Ephorus of Cumæ, historian (B.C. 350),   15.

Epicurus of Attica (3rd cent. B.C.),   9.

Epigenes of Babylonia, astrologer,   16.

Eratosthenes of Cyrene,   10,   13,   31.

Erophilus, Greek physician,   9.

Etruscan cycles,   16.

Eudoxus, of Cnidus,   21.

February, altered position of,   28n.

Fulvius Flaccus, Roman censor,   27,   34.

Georgias Leontinum, centennarian,   13.

Gracchus, Junius,   27.

Great Years, various,   20,   22,   26.

Harpalus Nauteles, Greek astron.,   22,   25.

Harpocrates, Egyptian god,   26n.

Heart, weight of the human,   19.

Heliacal year of Egypt,   23.

Heraclitus, of Ephesus, Gr. astron.,   15,   23.

Herodotus, Father of History,   15.

Hipparchus, his cycle,   22.

Hippocrates, of Cos, physician,   11.

Historical period, the,   30.

Horace Flaccus, Rom. poet,   17.

Horapollo (Horus), Egyptian god,   26n.

Horoi, Horographoi,   26.

Horus, son of Osiris,   26,   26n.

Ies Chrishna (Quiche-na),   17n.

Inacchus (see Bacchus and Liber Pater).

Iphitus, King of Elis,   31.

Isaic Table, the,   26n.

Isocrates, Athenian orator,   13.

Janus, or Jasius, Roman god,   35.

Jasius, B.C. 1406,   31n.

Jovian cycle of 12 years,   22.

Julian year of 365¼ days,   23,   26n.

Julius Cæsar, sov.-pont.,   29,   30,   32,   34,   36.

Junius Gracchus (see Gracchus).

Leap year,   30.

Lammas day, Midsummer,   32,   33,   33n.

Liber Pater, the god Dionysius,   20,   21n.

Life, various stages of,   11.

Linus, Greek poet,   23.

Livy, Titus, Roman historian,   17,   18.

Ludi Sæculares, sæcular games,   15,   16,   17.

Ludi Tarenteni,   17.

Lupercales,   35.

Lustrum, or pentæteris,   14,   24.

Lycurgus, Spartan law giver,   31n.

Maia, Mother of God,   35.

Marc Antony,   36.

Marcia, Roman gens,   6.

Mercedonius, intercalary month,   28n.

Mercury, or Baccus, Son of Maia,   35.

Messa, or ides (mid month),   27n.

Meton of Athens, his cycle,   22,   25.

Midnight, the beginning of day,   40.

Midsummer (see Lammas).

Mnesistratus, Greek astron.,   22.

Months, Roman names of the,   35.

Months, solar, lunar and civil,   33.

Music, its divine character,   9,   10.

M. Valerius Messala,   38.

Nabonassar (see Nabo Nazaru).

Nabo Nazaru, his æra;,   32,   32n.

Natal day of Rome,   29.

Nero, emp. Rome,   36n.

New Year’s day (see Lammas and Brumalia),   32n.

Nicephorus, canon or regnal dates,   8.

Nones, day of the Roman,   30.

Numa Pompilius, mythical k. Rome,   27,   29.

Œnopides of chios, Gr. mathemat.,   25.

Ogyges, cataclysm of,   31,   31n.

Old age,   13.

Olympiads,   21,   23,   24n,   30,   31n,   32n.

Orpheus on the precessional cycle,   23.

Osiris, Son of Isis, Egyptian god,   26n.

Pariliana, Roman festival,   32,   32n.

Pentæteris, or five-year Olympiads,   21,   23,   24n.

Philip III., k. Macedon, his æra,   32.

Philolaus the Pythagorian,   22,   25.

Piso, Roman historian,   18,   19.

Planets, distances of the,   10.

Plato, Greek philosopher,   12.

Plautus, Roman playwright,   39.

Pleiades, constellation of the,   33.

Pontifical meddling with calendars,   28.

Precession of the equinoxes,   23.

Pythagoras, Greek philosopher,   9,   10.

Pythian games,   22.

Quindecemviral records, the,   17.

Quinquatribus, Roman festival,   9.

Quirinus, temple of,   38.

Regifugium,   28.

Religious festivals shifted by calendar,   29.

Roman chronology, uncertainty of,   31n.

Rome, æra of its Foundation,   32n.

Rome, the twelve ages of,   16.

Romulus, mythical founder of Rome,   34.

Septimius Severus, emp. Rome,   18.

Servius Tullius, k. Rome,   24.

Sirius, (see Canicular star).

Solarium (see Clepsydra).

Solon, Athenian law giver,   11,   12.

Sosibius, Greek grammarian,   31.

Spheres, music of the,   10.

Staseas, the Peripatetic,   11.

Suetonius Tranquillus, Rom. Biog’r,   27.

Sun-dial, when first invented,   38.

Superstitions of the Romans,   20n,   28.

Tarquin, k. Rome,   27,   28n.

Ten months’ year,   27,   33n.

Terentini ludi,   17.

Terminalia, Roman festival of,   28,   23n.

Thales of Miletus, astron.,   26n.

Theophrastus, Gr. philos. and orator,   9.

Thot, Tot, or Tat, Egyptian god,   22n.

Thot, Egyptian month of,   33.

Timæus, Roman historian,   31,   32n.

Time,   14.

Titus, emp. Rome,   24.

Twelve Tables, cited,   38,   39,   39n.

Valerius Antias,   16,   17.

Valerius Publicola,   17.

Varro,   11,   16,   18,   19,   20,   27,   30,   31,   31n,   32n,   35,   36n,   37n,   39n,   40n.

Varro, his duplicity,   31n.

Vernal equinox (Easter, now Lady Day),   33.

Vespasian, emp. Rome,   24.

Virgil (Roman poet),   39,   39n.

Watches of the day and night,   38.

Xenocrates,   13.

Xenophanes Colophonius,   13.

Year, Canicular,   33.

Year of four seasons,   26.

Year of God,   33.

Year, Julian,   23,   25,   25n,   26n,   30,   32.

Year, Lunar,   28.

Year, natural,   25.

Year of Ten Months,   27,   30,   33n.

Year of three solar months,   26.

Zeno,   30.

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