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[i. e. the sun and moon] also, together with the five wan- 

 dering stars, may be in the same places and parts in 

 which they were situated when the mundane year began. 

 This, however, according to the decision of physiologists, 

 will take place at the expiration of 15,000 years; hence, as 

 the lunar year is a month, and the solar year consists of 

 twelve months, and the years of the other planets are those 

 which we have before mentioned, so the mundane year con- 

 sists of 15,000 of such years as we now compute. This year, 

 therefore, is called the truly revolving year, which is not 

 measured by the retrogression of the sun, i. e. of one planet, 

 but is terminated by the return of all the planets to the 

 same place, under the same description of the whole heavens; 

 from whence also it is called mundane, because the world 

 is properly called heaven. Hence, as we not only denomi- 

 nate the progression of the sun from the kalends of 

 January to the same kalends, the solar year, but also its 

 progression from the day after the kalends to the same 

 day, and its return from any day of any month to the same 

 day, a year ; thus, also, the beginning of this mundane year 

 may be fixed by any one at any time he pleases. Thus, for 

 instance, Cicero now, from an eclipse of the sun, which hap- 

 pened at the time of the death of Romulus, supposes the 

 beginning of the mundane year to commence. And though 

 frequently afterwards an eclipse of the sun may have hap- 

 pened, yet a repeated eclipse of this luminary is not said to 

 give completion to the mundane year; but then this comple- 

 tion takes place when the sun, during its eclipse, will be in 

 the same places and parts, and likewise all the planets and 

 fixed stars, in which they were at the time of the death of 

 Romulus. Hence, as physiologists assert, 15,000 years after 

 the death of Romulus the sun will again be so eclipsed, that 



