SEYFFARTH — ORIGINAL EGYPTIAN NAMES OF PLANETS. 439 



Cons. Marcellus and Lentullus and the first year of Cassar be- 

 longed to -47 and not to -50. See these Transactions, vol. iii. 

 p. 447. 



Further, in the following year Caesar went over to Epirus 

 against Pompejus, and one year later, on the 2Sth of June, the 

 battle of Pharsalus took place, according to Petavius in -48. In 

 the same year, Aug. 18, Pompejus was killed in Egypt, and two 

 days later (Aug. 20) Caesar arrived in Egypt. In the following 

 year, according to Petavius in -47, Cfesar captured Alexandria on 

 Feb. 8, and remained there nine months. In the next year, —46, 

 April 21, Caesar left Egypt, and a short time after his departure, 

 as Dio. xlii. 44, says, Ctesarion was born ; our planetary configu- 

 ration, to the contrary, referring, as usual, to the cardinal day 

 preceding the birth-day of Ciesarion, puts the latter in -45. Thus 

 it is mathematically demonstrated that Petavius and Ptolemy have 

 antedated Caesar's crossing the Rubicon at least one year, which 

 is confirmed by the two eclipses in 47 B.C. Therefore, the con- 

 suls of this year and all their predecessors, a:nd all the events of 

 Roman history since the foundation of Rome, have to come down 

 by one year. Rome originated in 752 and not in 753 B.C. 



Moreover, since Caesar ruled six years and was six times Dic- 

 tator, he must have died in -41 and not in -43, and since in the 

 same year the Olympian games were celebrated, it is obvious 

 that the Olympiads commenced two years later than Petavius 

 fancied, and that consequently all events of Grecian history hap- 

 pened respectively two or one year later than Petavius imposed 

 upon the world. All these chronological particulars have been 

 discussed in extenso in these Transactions, vol. iii. p. 401, and 

 they are now mathematically confirmed by Ca^sarion's Nativity. 



