454 



TRANS. ST. LOUIS ACAD. SCIENCE. 



— 39, July 30, i8h. 15m., V 6° E., curve 44 , 55 , 29 . The con- 

 junction happened (p. 429) about 2I1. 29m. later, and the longi- 

 tude of the 15 was shorter by about 3 50'. Hence this eclipse 

 was a great one in Rome. 



28. Eusebius (Chron. ii. 197, ad coss. Censorinus and Calv. 

 Sabinus, 01. 185, 2) mentions a solar eclipse which belongs to 

 the year — 37, because in — 36, the real consulate of Censorinus 

 and Sabinus, no eclipse of the sun was possible in Europe. This 

 eclipse, — 37, Jan. 13th, 2ih. 30m., ft 9 W., curve 47 , 33 , 51 , 

 was nearly total in Rome, owing to the longitude of the ft being 

 shorter by about 3 50'. 



29. The Fasti Siculi (p. 190) report that coss. L. Gellius Popli- 

 cula and M. Coccejus Nerva, u.c. 719, Ol. 185, 4, exAifaz fjktou 

 iyiuevo. The said consuls ruled in — 33, but no eclipse was 

 visible in that year ; wherefore we have again to recur to the pre- 

 ceding year, viz. to the eclipse in — 34, Oct. 31st, 22b.., ft 7 W., 

 curve 62 , 28 , 14 , which was greater in Rome b} T reason of the 

 ft lying about io° west of the sun. 



80. The Fasti Siculi (p. 190) mention another eclipse (£xXt<pts 

 jAcou iyevszo), coss. Augustus III. and Corvilius (read Corvinus), 

 u.c. 722, Ol. 187, 4 (?). The aforesaid consuls officiated in — 28, 

 during which the eclipse of Jan. 4, 19b. (-(-2h. 26m.), U io° E. 

 ( — 3 48'), curve 24 , 13 , 42 , occurred. In the preceding year 

 both ecliptic new moons happened after sunset. In — 30, which 

 Petavius referred to the same consuls, the only eclipse, on Aug. 

 20, 7h. 15m. p.m., was likewise invisible in Italy. The eclipse 

 in — 27, June 18, 15b. 45m., curve 20 , 3S , io°, ft i° VV., was 

 greater, but it does not agree with the consuls, and preceded sun- 

 rise in Rome. 



31. Josephus (A. xvii. 6, 4) reports that an eclipse of the moon 

 happened in Jerusalem on the night preceding the fast-day sol- 

 emnized in commemoration of the siege of Jerusalem by Nebu- 

 chadnezzar, which siege commenced on the 10th clay of the tenth 

 month (Tebeth) of the civil year, as proven by 2 Kings, xxv. 1. 

 l Mavdia^j Josephus says, Upbfievos iv vuxti rfj (pepouorj ec<; 

 ifjfiepaV) 7j j wjareea ivtcrraro, idozsv — xal t j oe\r}\>t t ok tfj 

 ovzjj vuxrt izs/.t-sv. This eclipse, moreover, occurred, according 

 to Josephus, nearly three months before Easter (March 20th) and 

 the death of Hercd. About that time only one lunar eclipse was 



