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Book I Chapter 8 · I.8.44–I.8.45.1
Ancient Greek
p. 25844 Πλουτάρχου, Νουμᾶ καὶ Λυκούργου
Πολλοί εἰσιν, οἳ προστεθῆναι τὸν Ἰανουάριον καὶ Φεβρουάριον ὑπὸ Νουμᾶ τοὺς μῆνας λέγουσιν, ἐξ ἀρχῆς δὲ χρῆσθαι Ῥωμαίους δέκα μόνοις εἰς τὸν ἐνιαυτόν, ὡς ἔνιοι τῶν βαρβάρων τρισὶ καὶ τῶν Ἑλλήνων Ἀρκάδες μὲν τέτρασιν, ἓξ δὲ Ἀκαρνᾶνες· Αἰγυπτίοις δὲ μηνιαῖος ἦν ὁ ἐνιαυτός, εἶτα τετράμηνος, ὥς φασί· δι’ ὃ καὶ οἱ ταύτην τὴν χώραν οἰκοῦντες ἀρχαιότατοι δοκοῦσιν εἶναι καὶ πλῆθος ἀμήχανον ἐτῶν ἐπὶ ταῖς γενεαλογίαις καταφέρουσιν, ἅτε δὴ τοὺς μῆνας εἰς ἐτῶν ἀριθμὸν τιθέμενοι.
45 Πλάτωνος, Τιμαίου ⟨καὶ Ἀετίου⟩
Πλάτων αἰῶνος εἰκόνα κινητήν, ἢ διάστημα τῆς τοῦ κόσμου κινήσεως· γενητὸν δὲ κατ’ ἐπίνοιαν· οὐσίαν δὲ χρόνου τὴν οὐρανοῦ κίνησιν· λέγει γὰρ ἐν τῷ Τιμαίῳ οὕτως·
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 8
p. 25944 Plutarch, Lives of Numa and Lycurgus
Many say that Numa added the months January and February, and that originally the Romans used only ten months for the year, just as some non-Greek peoples use three, and among the Greeks the Arcadians use four and the Acarnanians six. The Egyptians, they say, had a year of one month and then of four months. This is why the inhabitants of that country seem to be the most ancient and bring down an extraordinary number of years in their genealogies: they count months as years.293
45 Plato, Timaeus, ⟨with Aëtius⟩
Plato calls time a moving image of eternity, or the interval of the universe’s motion. It is generated in conception; its nature is the motion of heaven. For he says in the Timaeus as follows:294
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