SKYFFARTH — ON THE THEORY OF THE MOON S MOTIONS. 449 



result, from which the whoU of the Greek history depends, is histori- 

 cally and astronomically confirmed by the following eighteen irre- 

 futable arguments : 



The Fasti Capitolini and other authorities attest that Caesar 

 was six times dictator, but, according to the present chronology, 

 five dictaturae only came out, and this contradiction our chronolo- 

 gers could not obviate by the hypothesis that the Romans omitted 

 to mention Casar's first dictatorship. Even Josephus, Plutarch, 

 Cassiodor, Eusebius, and others, assign to Caesar a reign of six 

 years and three months, and not of five years and three months. 



Further, supposing Caesar to have governed only five years and 

 three months, then we have to accept the absurdity that during 

 Caesar's last year two annual magistri equitum existed simultane- 

 ously, namely, Antonius and Lepidus. (See Fischer's "Romische 

 Zeittafeln.") 



Furthermore, Josephus (Ant. xiv. 4. 2) reports that Pompeius 

 captured Jerusalem, in the course of Cicero's consulate, on Sept. 

 nth, a Saturday (Dio 37, 15), consequentl}', as has been shown, 

 in — 62. On the saine day of the week, during the consulate of 

 Agrippa and Gallus, Herod conquered Jerusalem, but "27 years 

 later." (Joseph. B. J. v. 9, 4 ; Ant. xiv. 6, 4), i.e. — 35. Accord- 

 ing to Petavius, however, the interval amounts to 36 years only, 

 because he had shortened the ruling-time of Caesar by one year. 



Moreover, the battle at Pharsalus was given, coss. Caesar II. 

 and Vatia Isauricus ( — 47), v. Idus Sept. (June 28th) in — 46 

 (B. C. iii. 85), and, two months after, Pompeius died pridie Kal. 

 Oct., i.e. Aug. 18 in — 46. From this day to Caesar's assassina- 

 tion on March 15th, says Plutarch (Caes. § 267), four years and 

 some months elapsed. Consequently Caesar died in — 41, and 

 not in — 43. The nativity of Caesarion (p. 407) mathematically 

 confirms that Pompeius died in — 46, and Caesar took Alexandria 

 in December — 46. 



Add to this that Augustus, being born in January, — 61, as we 

 have seen (p. 407), testifies himself to have been 19 Roman years 

 old (Mon. Anc. 1, "annos undeviginti natus") subsequent to Cie- 

 sar's death. The latter, accordingly, belongs to — 41, and not 

 to — 43. The same results from the ages of Caesar, Varro, Vir- 

 gil, Horace (p. 432, 434). Cleopatra, and other notables of that 

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