H. A. Newton on November Star-Showers. 379 | 
In the preceding paragraph are related the razing of Castellum 
Lucullanum from fear of the Saracens, the removal of the citi- 
zens to Naples, and the crenata of the bo y of St. Severinus 
to the Peteapetl that bore his name. The razing of the town 
occupied five days, and was finished on the 4th day before the 
Ides of October, that is, Tuesday, Oct. 12th. Ina note Cajeta- 
nus says: 
“Joannes Diaconus cum PS icone tm corporis Sancti Severini e Castello Lucul- 
lano Neapolim enarrasset, itum dixerat a Pontifice, et sigh ad illud inquirendum 4, 
Idus Octobris; ut in ejus Basilieam deyentum est, post Missarnm solemnia, detur- 
bato altari, caren humo o, inte, hata m adbut geen at inventum; cumque tet 
Kal. Nove embris, ‘Portenta, quae A aattantut. eveneres ula sque Jost arnt % 
um eodem pn see > ‘Tabromehiaan expu ugnay erat, et Sanctum Proceiark 
abate interfecera’ 
In other ag he contends that the year of the capture of 
Taormina and the invasion of Calabria was A.D. 908. He re- 
fers to his notes on the life of St. Elias Ennensis in the Vitae 
SS. Steulorum for the proof. I have not access to this work, but 
am convinced that the year is A.D. 902. The minuteness and 
consecution of the Arab ‘ehronicles of these political events make 
itimpossible to suppose the year in error. 
5. “Anno i erine xs incarnatione Domini nongentissimo secundo indice. 5. 3. Idus 
tobris regnantibus Leone et Alexandro augustis residenteque quarto Benedicto 
Romano peatities, Partenopenss duce Gregorio et Stephano conele episcopo, fac- 
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on solum in Italia sed in toto mundo yisum est, magis creden midi “ey ane 
m esse sensentioin dicentis : “ Erunt signa in sole et luna et stellis ; 3” neque 
in tale — ied iSemy yr: regis morte in universo orbe Deus ostenderat.”’ Chron- 
Salernitan z, III, p. 549, n. 
“902. Ostensa sunt hoc anno portenta; stella velud pluvie per maximam noctis 
Ben caden nites: Piles et site sakoate tes ut testantur navigantes et molen- 
: aturalem cursum = ip a nocte, hoe est in 5 Kalend. Octobris, non habue- 
runt, An i, 590. 
nalista Saxo: 
The moi account in nearly the same words is found in the 
Annales Palidenses: Pertz, xvi, 60. The year 903 is, however, 
Biven as ah date. 
7. The followin account refers, if the date is correct, to Nov. 
lth, A. D, 899. Sati it seems probable that the year should be 
