ItA Ohfervailons on the Zodiac at X)enieYet. 



da^'s in them, it had accordingly receded two lunar months^ 

 and eight days over, making in the whole fixty-feven, and 

 fo fell on the 27th of April, or day of the dog-ftar's fetting, 

 whence the 28ih of March would be the firft of Aries; but 

 as, according to Hipparchus, compared with IVleton and 

 Manilius, Julius Caefar's vear placed the fun in the eighth 

 day of the (ign, thefe eight days allowed, will fix the be- 

 ginning of Aries at the vernal equinox, and 21ft of March. 



The anomalies of the Roman year being fettled by the 

 year of Nabonaflar, or the Egyptian, it becomes evident^ 

 from the pyramidal figure, with the fun on its fummit and 

 the cavern beneath, fignifying the "vacant interlunar cave of 

 the moon 5 that the horns of the Pan, fymbolizing the hori- 

 zontal beams of the dog-ftar, or completion of the caniculaf 

 year, are placed on the common boundary of the eighth and 

 third gradation, or day, in the eleven, which indicate the 

 difTcrence between lunar and folar time, or 365 and 354, to 

 diflinguifli the eight days for the excefs beyond the two luna- 

 tions, and the three other days correfponding to the difler- 

 ence of the Roman lunar year, ending at^the 23d of Febru- 

 ary, and the year of Nabonaflar beginning on February 2(5, 

 xvhlch was the firft of Thoth bv Egyptian reckoning. 



The bandages round the head of the Pan exprefs the fame, 

 with other notes of diftinction ; for, whiltt the uppermoft 

 fold has eight points correfponding to eight days, as before, 

 the fcpond exhibits five units, to denote the five Egyptian 

 fupplemcniary days, which, with the five points between 

 them, indicate ten days, as correfponding with the winter 

 folftice, December 21, whence Julius commenced his re- 

 form, and the ift of January, or his new year's date. 



But as, under this reform, the Egyptian year correfted the 

 Roman, fo the Roman year, thus corre£ied, was made by 

 Auguftus the ftandard of the Egypti'an ; for, as that confided 

 only of twelve months, of thirty days each, with five days 

 in addition, its commencement receded one day on every 

 quadrennium ; confequently, from the year of Nabonall'ar, 

 and that of the reform of Auguftus, bv Julian reckoning, 

 lixty-four days twelve hours (the year of isIabonaflTar, which 

 was the Egyptian, beginning at noon, according to the canon 

 of Ptolemy), wili fliow that the firft of Tholh, five interced- 

 ing days being allowed between the Julian correction, taken 

 as beginning from 707 of Hume, and that of Auguftus, efta- 

 blifhcd in 725, the biflcxlile four davs twelve hours (or, 

 reckoned from midniplit, five davs), had varied from the 2ill 

 of June, or fummer folftitial noon, to the 29th of Auguft, 

 three in the mcwning, at which time Auguftus had lixcd it: 

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