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Obfervai'ions on the Zodiac at Dendefa. 



bruarjr, to which the four biflextile days again included be* 

 tween the Julian and Auguftan reform, came to the 23d, 

 when the Roman lunar year was intercalated; and again, 

 from the 19th day of February, the eight days in the fign 

 reach that of the ill of Thoth, the year"being bifle.xlile, and 

 tlie excefs of iidereal days, from noon to noon, allowed. 



It remains to obferve, that, in adjufting the Roman mode 

 of dating to the Egyptian, there is a nominal difference of 

 three years, which will be found to be but nominal upon 

 comparing the canon of Ptolemv. Hence what, in Roman 

 reckoning after the reform of the kalcndar, appears to be the 

 7a2d year of the city, contrafted with Egyptian time, will 

 fall into the 725th: now, as Auguftus was in his thirty-firll 

 year, when he fixed the ift of Thoth, in the 725th year of 

 jRome, and made this his jirjl year in Egypt, the two years 

 from that of Antony preceding were conlidered as fupprell'ed. 

 This the annexed table will fliow : 



Thus, then, as Auguftus is ftated to have been born in the 

 vear of Rome 691, when the Roman year is referred to 

 Egyptian reckoning, it will be feen that, in Roman com- 

 putation, his 31ft year fell into this vear of reform. In perfect 

 confiftence with this, and all that has been adduced, is an 

 infcription on the fouthern portal of the very temple in which 

 this zodiac cxifts, and which, though hitherto 7inappHedj 

 is given bv Denon. It is rendered by Mr. Aikin thus : 



" On account of the emperor Ceefar, god, the fon of Ju- 

 piter, 



