SKYFFARTH — ON THB THEORY OF THE MOON's MOTIONS. 45 1 



The fact that Caesar died in — 41, and not in — 43, is, finally, 

 confirmed by the Olympian games, celebrated, as Cicero testifies 

 in several places (Epis. ad Att. 15, 5 & 24 ; 16, 7), three months 

 after Caesar's decease ; for the planetary configuration of — 777 

 (p. 404) demonstrates that the Olympian games were celebrated 

 in all years before Christ which, being divided by 4, give the re- 

 mainder I, and of this character is the year — 41. 



Further, Livy (27, 35 ; 18, 7) and Polybius (11, 5) narrate that 

 during the consulate of Nero and Salinator, i.e., as we have seen 

 (p. 432), in — 205, u.c. 547, the Olympian games were celebra- 

 ted. Petavius, on the contrary, refers the same consuls to — 206, 

 and Caesar's death to — 43, to the effect that the Olympian games 

 were once celebrated every third year. In — 205, even a Roman 

 embassy, as Livy in the Annales Maximi found, had been sent to 

 attend the same Olympian games. 



Further, Cramer's An. P. p. 151, and Euseb. Arm. ad. Ol. 199, 

 I , bear witness that during the third year of Tiberius, who reigned 

 since the death of Augustus on Aug. 19th, a.d 16, the emperor's 

 quadriga conquered during the Olympian games, consequently 

 A.D. 18. According to Petavius, who refers the third year of Ti- 

 berius to A.D. 17, and the consuls Xero and Salinator to — 206, 

 the Olympian games again would once have been enacted every 

 three years. 



Moreover, Plutarch (Anton, p. 942) relates that Antonius and 

 Cleopatra assisted at the Olympian games in the course of Ahe- 

 nobarbus and Sosius's consulate, i.e. in —29 (p. 435), which 

 agrees with the Olympian games in — 41, and those in the years 

 -j-19, — 205, and — 777. According to Petavius, the said con- 

 suls ruled in — 31 (p. 435), and accordingly the Olympian games 

 were repeated every three years, if Petavius was right. 



Again, Josephus (B.J. i. 21, 8; Ant. xvi. 5, 3) recounts that 

 Herod I, participated in the Olympian games during the 25th 

 year of his reign. This Herod obtained the crown of Palestine 

 within the consular year of Calvinus and Pollio in — 37, and in 

 the same year the Olympian games took place (Joseph. An. xiv. 

 14, 4; XV. 10, I ; B.J. i. 9, 13). After that time Herod is said 

 to have reigned 37 years (Joseph. Ant. xvii. 8, i). The same 

 king, assisted by Sosius, conquered Jerusalem during the consulate 



