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continued five Years more. Then Scipio JVasicct, the Col- 

 league of Lcenas, first divided the Hours, both of Day and 

 Night equally, by Water. And this Horologe he dedicated 

 under a Roof, in the Year of the City 595 from the Build- 

 ing of Rome. So long it was, that the People of Rome did 

 not measure out the Light. 



Now let us return to the other Living Creatures : and 

 first, of Animals of the Land. 



Coracle referred to in note at p. 256. Montfaucon, torn. iv. pi. 49. 



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