2i8 The J^amral Hijlory 
pelrfeded by C^far^ which though not performed till the time of 
Gregory the 13^'', Anno 1582. yet the fir [I motion of its being 
done, was certainly made by this Learned Friar to Pope Clement 
the 4^'', as appears from a fair MS Copy of the fourth part of his 
Oj?u6 minu6 in the Bodleyan Library : Where after he has paffio- 
natly lamented its errors awhile, y^e gives this fuccinft account of 
it, viz^, that its being greater than the true Solar year, was the ' 
caafe of the going back of the /Equinoxes and Solftices^ and then 
how all was to be amended. 
9. Quod autem hicinttndo (fays he^) eft de correSfione Calendarii 
quoutitur Ecclefia. Julius quidem Cxfar in Aftronomia edoSiws 
comflevit ordinem Calendarii fecundum quod fotuit in tempore fuo ; 
(sr ftcutKii\:or\x narrant cow/r^ Achorium Afironomum^ & Eudo-<^ 
xum ejU6 DoSforem difputavit in Egypto de quantitate Anni Solaris, , 
fuper quam fundatum eft Calendarium noftrum^undeficut Lucanus re- 
fer iffe dixit 
Non meus Eudoxi vincetur faftibus Annus. ■ 
Sednonpervenit Julius adveram anni quantitatem quamfofuit efje in 
Calendario ;zq/?rc> 365 dies^ isr quart am diet integrum^ qude quarter 
colUgitur per quatuor annos^ ut in anno BifTextili computetur unus 
dies plm quam in aVm annis communihm : Manifeftum autem eft per 
omnes computiftas^ antiquos is; novos^ fed ist certificatum eH per vias 
Aftronomia^, quod quantita^ anni Solaris non ert tanta^ imo minor ; 
ist iftud minus jeftimatur a fapientibus ejfe quafi 130 pars uniu5 diei^ 
unde tanquam in 1^0 annis fuperflue computatur unim dies^ qui ft au* 
ferretur^ ejfet Calendarium corre^um quoad hoc peccatum^ i. e. 
10. That which I intend here (fays he) is the correftionof 
the Calendar now in ufe in the Church, Julim Cdtfar indeed be- 
ing learned in Aftronomy^ compleated the Calendar very well for 
his time, and as Hiftories tell us, difputed in Fgjpt againft Acho- 
riu^^ and his Mafter Eudoxm^ concerning the quantity of the 
Solar year, on which our Calendar is founded, which made Lu^ 
can bring him in fpeaking to this effed. 
The '^\x\idn',ftjallne''r he proved amifs^ 
By the Rudoxhn EphemeWo 
But never came to the knowledge of the true quantity of 
» 40 MS. in Bib. Bod, in MufaoFrotobil>Uothecarii p- 327. 
the 
