Plinics Natural! Hiftorie* 



A by P.Tkimm Mena^ as Vdrr$ doth report : for before-time they never cut their haire. The firft 

 that was (haven every day msScipto Africanm : and after him eommeth Jugujlus the Empe- 

 rourjVsho evermore ufcd the rafoiir. 



Chap. lx. 

 of Horologes or DUh^when they rverefrfidevifed, 



THe third liniverfall accord of all nations, vvas in the obfervation how the houres weAt 5 and 

 this was a point grounded upon good reafon : but at what time^and by whome this was de- 

 vifcd in Greece, we have declared in the fecond booke of this worke : and long it was before 

 B this order came up at Rome, as well as the ufe of the Barber. In the 12 tables of Romane lawes^ 

 there is no mention at all made but of Eaft and Weft: after certein yeeres^the ndon-ftced poins 

 in the South quarter alfo was obfervedjand the Confuls bedle or ctyer pronounced noonjwhen 

 ftandingat the hall or chamber of the councell, hee beheld the funnein that wife betweene the 

 pulpit called Roftra, and the Grecoftafis [which was a place where forreinembafladours gave 

 their attendance:] but when that t^ie fame funne enclined downward from the columne named 

 Moenia, to the common goalc or prifbn, then hee gave warning of the laft quarter of the dpy^ 

 and fo pronounced. But this obfervation would fervc but upon cleere daies when the funne fhi- 

 ned : and yet there was no other mcanes to know how the day went, untill the firft Punicke warre, 

 Fabms mhlis writeth, th^iL,Pa^yrm Cur for 1 2 yeeres before the warre with Pjrrhmf}fi^s the 

 C firftjthat for to doe the Romanes a pleafurejfet up a funne-dyall to know what it was a cl6(:ke,u^- 

 on the temple of ^irinu^ at the dedication thereof, when his father had vowed it before him^ 

 Howbet mine author fheweth not either the reafon of the making of that diall,or the workman j 

 ne yet from whence it was brought,nor in what writer hee found it fowritten. UH,Farroit^ot- 

 teth, that the firft diall vvas fct up in the common market-place, upon a columne neere the fore- 

 faidRoftra, in the time of the firft Punicke warre, by M, F^lerim MeffaU the Confull, prefently 

 after the taking of GatanainSiciliejfrom whence it was brought,thirtie yeeres after the report 

 thatgoethof the forefaid quadrant and dyall of P^/?)'^^^/^, namely, in the yeere after the founda- 

 tion of the cittie 477. And albeit the ftrokes and lines of this Horologe ordyall agreed not fit 

 with the houres, yet were the people ruled and went by it for an hundred yeeres fave one, even 

 D unt^l ^Mmim Philiffm (who together with Z. Pdulus \^g^s Cenfor) fet another by it, framed 

 and made more cxquificely according to Art. And this peece ofworkc amongother good a^ls 

 done by the Cenfor during his office, was highly accepted of the people asafingular gift of his. 

 Yet for all this, if it were a clofe and cloudie daie wherein the funne ilione not out,racn knew not 

 whatit was a clocke certeinly : and thus it continued five yeeres more. Then at hk^cipio Nafca 

 being Cenfor with Ldaas^imdc the devife firft to divide the houres both of day and nigh t equals 

 ly by water,diftilling and dropping out of one veffell into another. And this manner of Horo- 

 loge or water-clocke, hee dedicated in the end within houfe, and that was in the 5$»5yeerefroin 

 the building ofRome. Thus you fee how long it was,that the people of Rome couldnot cer- 

 tainly tell how the day pafled.Thus much concerning the Nature of man : let us returne now lb 

 E difcourfe of other living creatures .-and firft of land beafts. 



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