BOOK VII. Lx. 214 



Catania in Sicily had been taken " by the consul Manius 

 Valerius Messala, and that it was brought from Sicily 

 thirty years later than the traditional date of Papi- 

 rius's sundial, b.c. 264. The Hnes of this sundial did 

 not agree with the hours, but all the same they 

 followed it for 99 years, till Quintus Marcius PhiUppus 

 who was Censor with Lucius Pauhis placed a more 

 carefuUy designed one next to it, and this gift was 

 reccived as one of tlie most welcome of the censor's 

 undertakings. Even then however the hours were 

 imcertain in cloudy weather, until the next lustrum, 

 when Scipio Nasica the colleague of Laenas instituted 

 the first water-clock dividing the hours of the nights 

 and the days equally, and dedicated this time-piece in 

 a roofed building, b.c. 159. For so long a period the 

 divisions of daylight had not been marked for the 

 Iloman pubUc. 



We wll now turn to the rest of the animals, 

 beginning with land-animals. 



« 263 B.c. 



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