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fjLtv. Quia vero Sol lucidus eft , ac nobis Horas diet, 
aliaque omnia dare demon fir at, nox autem propter te- 
nebras eft obfcurior , aftroriun lucem nodlu protulerunt 
(Dii) qua nobis Horas nodlis indicarent quo fit , ut 
multa turn quorum opus eft perficiamus. But Xeno- 
phon flourifhed, according to Laertius (46), about 
Olymp. XCIV. 4. or the year before Chrift 397. and 
about 148 years after the death of Anaximander; at 
which time, it feems now, the Greeks were ac- 
quainted with the word £>00.. 
But tho’ the word wpec itfelf could not be proved 
to have been in ufe among them at this time, yet it 
feems as if they had what was equivalent to it be- 
fore: For according to Menander, as cited by Julius 
Pollux (47), what was then called d>ccc, an hour , and 
j'j half an hour , was called 7 rctpd tois ttocXouois 
by the antients ; 2w/>t«or, a mark : And the reafon, I 
fuppofe, was, becaufe the ends of the fhadows were 
marked with the letters of the alphabet, called Z.I01- 
y&cc, elements , as their lengths were meafured by 
feet. And as the day was divided into XII parts, fo 
the greateft length of their fhadows were XII feet ; 
the Sun being after this, in the evening, and before 
this, in the morning, too low to make any farther 
meafures ufeful. 
Inftances of what hath here been faid, are eafily 
to be met with in the comic writers. Thus in Ari- 
ftophanes’s Concionatrices[^ 8). 
(46) In Vit. ejuf. 
( 47 ) Pag. 47. Edit.Ku/ler • 
(48) Pag. 457. ibid . 
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