C 447 1 
depended on ; contrary to whatScaliger (14) and Vof- 
fius(i5) both thought. 
As there are, however, feveral errors in this com- 
putation, it may not be amifs, perhaps, to form an- 
other, upon fuppolition, with Sir Ifaac Newton, that 
Hefiod flourished about the year before Chrift 879. 
or, in round numbers, the year 880. and let us fee 
what will be the refult of it. 
At the end of the year 1689. the place of Ar&urus, 
in the Britifh catalogue, was - 19° 53 ' 5 2 "■> or 6 5 19 0 
^2" y and from the year before Chrift 880. to the 
end of the year 1689. are 2569 years, the preceffion 
for which time is 1* y° 4° 5° * This,, iubtradted 
from the place of Ardturus 6 s 19 53 52 , gives his 
place, in the year be- 
fore Chrift 880, == 5 s 
1 4 0 1 3' 02". The lati- 
tude of this ftar, is, in 
the fame catalogue, == 
30° 57'. Therefore, in 
the figure here, we 
have G M KB the 
ecliptic, RLKA the 
equator, C P the com- 
plement of the ftar’s 
(14) Hefiod us florebat eo fsculo quo Ardturus *)t?ovv%o; orie- 
batur in Bceotia vm die Martii, fi quid hoc ad conje&uram facit, 
faltem apud excellentes aftrologos, qui ex hoc parapegmate, infra 
Septuaginta plus minus annos, feculum Hefiodi deprehendere pof- 
funt. Animadverf ad Eufeb. Cbron. Num. MCCLV. 
Operae vero eft attendere ad id quod Hefiodus ipfe format, 
fua state Ar£turum *Kp'on >yj>v in Boeotia exortum fuifle vm die 
Martii : Unde poets hujus stas in tantum faltem poffit colligi, ut 
error fi quis fit faltem intra lxx annos fit conftitutus. V off. de Poet. 
Gr<zc. 1 . i. c. 2. 
latitude. 
