t 
[ 481 ] 
, •« 
* i II 
Z S = 108 00 00 
PZ= f 1 55 ooarith.complem.— 0.1039621 
PS = 101 33 y6arith.complem.= 0.0089087 
Sum — 261 28 56 
Half =130 44 28 z z * s= 9-8794779 
— ZS = 108 00 00 
Dif?.= 22 44 28 - - - = 9.5872258 
Sum = 19-579 574-5 
Half Sum = 9.7897872 = the cofine of 5T 57' 15"; 
the double of which is = 103° 54' 30" = ZPS; 
which, converted into time, gives 6h yy' 38'' for the 
end of twilight. Since, therefore, Ardturus rofe at 
6 h 36' 13", and, confequently, near 20' before the 
end of twilight ; it might then be faid very properly, 
in the popular and lefs determinate fenfe of the word, 
to rife AKPOKNE<f>AIOhh 
From what hath been faid, my lord, doth it not 
feem pretty clear, that Homer and Heiiod both lived 
about the year before Chrift 580. and that, as I laid, 
from feveral arguments of an aftronomical nature ? 
The only difficulty that, I think, can be made to this, 
is, how to reconcile it with the exprefs teftimony of 
Herodotus to the contrary. In his life of Horner, as 
we have feen(68), he places him 622 years before 
the expedition of Xerxes into Europe; but in his 
hiftory he fays, both Homer and Hefiod were not 
(68) Not. 3. k 4. 
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