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Vallancey - Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicis, Volume 5, Issue 1, Page 90

Vallancey - Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicis, Volume 5, Issue 1, Page 90
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The Antiquarian Society, 1782
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Vallancey, Charles
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Vallancey - Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicis
volume Number
5
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NUMERALS ASSUME THE POWERSOF LITERARY CHARACTERS. 17iThe letters So and Jauda, or, S, I, made upthe number i 6; and fi in the Egyptian fignifiesto take a wife, to cohabit with a woman; there-fore the Egyptians reprefented an aa of this kindby the number XVI. Voluptatem fedecim pingunt.(Horapollo). Silence, for the fanre reafon, wasreprefented by the number 1095, &c.Or THE CHALD AN.CYCLR3.The three fambus periods nvented by theCbald ans, were, the Sofas, the Nereos and theSarus. Berofus ufed them in compofing hichronological calculations, and fixing the epochasof his hiftory of Babylon.The Ss contained 6oThe Sarus 666oThe Nan i i xo days, or one fixth of aSarus = 37 moons.The works of Berofus have fuffered greatly byinterpreters, and there are many contradiaionsamongamong modern authors as well upon the numberof years that compofed thefe famous p .riods, asupon the ufes they may have been applied .Syncellus, Abydenus, Alcx. PolyhiLor, tellus, that the Saros was a period, of 3600 y ars.(g).Suidas, an author otentporary with Sincellus,fays, the Saros was a period of lunar months,amounting to i8 years and a half. A ironomerscannot difcover any aficronornical o cration towhich fuch periods can be applied. Pliny indeedmentions a period os 223 lunar months, whichDr. Hally thinks is a falfe reading, and propofesthe amendment b reading 224 months. It is notthe intent of this effay to enter jnto rgumcnts ofthe propriety of thefe periods, but to Ihew theformation of the words from numerals.- That the firif king of Chald a Ihould havereigned ten Sari, according to Abydenus, willnot be furprizing, provided we take Suidass cal-culation of 222 moons to a Sanis. Sir Ifaac New-ton makes the Sarus 1$ years and 6 intercalarymonths, which exaaly agrees with Suidas; butthen it is not the fimple Sarus, but the - 1 tZlSarus H fre,(g) AbydenuS fays, the firif king of the Chalduans reignedten Sari, that is according to his accou ;t, years, andthat the number of kings amounted to ten, and t e term oftheir reigns to an hundred and twenty Sari, or, 3,2OO ear$.We need proceed no further to COnviflCC the reader of fornegreat miftake in the MSS. or the printed copy of AbydenuS,as Eufebius has handed it down to us.Cha1d anE-r .L- A-it N- iK - p 53040705070500365
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90
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Vallancey - Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicis, Volume 5, Issue 1

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