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apparently the eclipse in —403, Feb. 23d, 6h. 30m. U 9°E., i.e. 

 4 E. (p. 429). Agreeably to the present lunar theory, 33- inches 

 only were obscured. Petavius computed, as was to be expected, 

 the eclipse in —405, April 15th, ioh. local time ; but this eclipse 

 is irreconcilable with Xenophon, who refers that eclipse to the 

 first and not to the last months of depot, and, especially, to even- 

 ing {koitepd). (Comp. p. 445.) The present editions of Xeno- 

 phon put this eclipse in the 25th year of the Peloponnesian war, 

 beginning, as Xenophon affirms, with the first expedition of the 

 Athenians against Sparta in —429 (p. 471) ; but the particular 

 passage {jzapakrjAu&ozoQ qd/j zou y_pbvou xat zw noUfitv zezzd- 

 p<ov\ according to the Petavian chronology, contains an altera- 

 tion of the original text, perpetrated by some ancient transcriber 

 or modern editor. 



17. Xenophon (Hell. ii. 3, 4) attests that in the spring, during 

 &±poz of the last (28th) year of the Peloponnesian war, Archon 

 Pythodor II., an eclipse of the sun occurred in Athens (xazd zo 7 j- 

 zov zbv xacpbv Tispc -fjXiou extern*). This is the eclipse in —401. 

 Jan. 17th, 2ih. 30m., U io°E. (—5° 26'), curve 37 , 32 , 6o°, 

 which commenced 3I1. 31m. later (p. 429). Petavius mistook 

 Xenophon's eclipse for that in — 403, Sept. 2d, 2ih. 30m., ft 

 6° W., curve 57 , 38 , 2° ; but, unhappily for him, this eclipse 

 belonged to yziptov, and not to ftipoz. The same eclipse, more- 

 over, confirms Thucydides and Xenophon, who unanimously bear 

 witness that the Peloponnesian war lasted fully 28 years ; for. 

 from the eclipse in — 429 (No. 11) to this eclipse in — 401, the 

 last year of the Peloponnesian war, 2S years really transpired. 

 Petavius, on the contrary, referring the first eclipse of the war to 

 — 430 and the last to — 403, made out, of course, that the war 

 lasted only 27 years, and that "bonus Xenophon erravit." 



18. Xenophon (iv. 3, 10) narrates that within &ipo^ of the 1st 

 year of the Corinthian war, Arch. Eubulides ( — 392 to 391), a 

 great eclipse of the sun (pr^oscdrjc) was seen on the northern 

 bounds of Boeotia (3S 40' N. Lat.) The same we read in Plu- 

 tarch (Ages. 17, vol. viii. p. 654 R) On the occasion of the 

 ecliptic new moon in — 391, Jan. 26th, 22I1. 30m., U 9 W., the 

 shadow of the moon touched only 33 , 23 , 47 . Since, however, 

 the longitude of the Q> was shorter by 5° 24' (p. 429), the obscu- 



