458 TRANS. ST. LOUIS ACAD. SCIENCE. 



Campania hora diei vii et viii. sensit, Corbulo, dux in Armenia, 

 inter horam diei x. et xi. prodidit visum." As the same author 

 (ii. 79) informs us that the Roman priests only counted the hours 

 from midnight ("a media nocte ad mediam"),and since the same 

 eclipse was seen in Armenia between 10 and 1 1 o'clock after sun- 

 rise (diei), it is evident that this eclipse coincided (p. 429) with 

 about noon, R.T. Tacitus (xiv. 12) simply reports, "sol repente 

 obscuratus"; but according to Dio (Ixi. 16, p. 36 St.) this eclipse 

 was total {auixTiac, izkhitev) in Calabria. This is the eclipse a.d. 

 60, Oct. i2th, i9h. ( + 2h. iim.), ^ 6° W., curve 58°, 32°, 22°. 

 According to our Table (p. 430), the longitude of the ft was 

 shorter by 3° 27', and hence the eclipse must have been nearly 

 total in Campania. Petavius, of course, alluded to the eclipse a.d. 

 59, April 30, 23h., 15 3° E., obscuration 9 inches ; but this eclipse 

 stands in direct opposition to Pliny and Dio, and to Roman chro- 

 nology. The date "pridie Kal. Majas" is, in the present editions 

 of Pliny, apparently altered to suit Petavius's erratic chronology. 



JfO. Philostratus (V. A. 45, 8 & 11, p. 180 & 184 St.) testifies 

 that during the consulate of Telesinus an eclipse .of the sun took 

 place {jevofxevrjz ixA£c</'£co<; too 'jkcou), consequently a.d. 67, 

 May 31st, 3h., ft 3° W., curve 40°-28°; Europe, Africa, S.W. 

 Asia. Since the longitude of the ft was shorter by about 3° 25', 

 the obscuration was great in Rome. The year of the eclipse is 

 fixed by the Olympian games, for in the course of the same 

 consulate, and the 12th year of Nero, the emperor went over to 

 Greece to assist at the festival : the games, however, were post- 

 poned for one year, and were celebrated a.d. 68 (Philost. V. A. 

 iv. 17, 18, 24; Sueton. Nero, 19 ; Pausan. x. 36, 4, etc.) Petavius 

 referred the same consuls Telesinus and Paulinus to a.d. 66, but 

 alas ! during this year no eclipse at all was possible. 



But it came to light on occasion of the observance of the jubi- 

 lee of the martyrdom of St. Peter and St. Paul, notoriously sol- 

 emnized in Rome a.d. 1867, that it was enacted too early by one 

 year. For, in the first place, the Father of Church History, 

 Eusebius, insists that both Apostles died during the 13th year of 

 Nero's reign, and this 13th year extended from Oct. 13, a.d. 67 

 feo the same day a.d. 68, and not, as Petavius, in consequence of 

 insufficient chronological resources and erroneous conclusions, 

 stated, from a.d. 66 to 6^. (See p. 437.) This result is mathe- 



