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and unfortunate, as ignorant that the nature of every day is the same,- 1 have examined in another place ; but upon occasion of the present subject, I think it will not be amiss to annex a few examples relating to this matter. On the fifth of their month Hippodromius, which corre- sponds to the Athenian Hecatombajon, the Boeotians gained two signal victories, the one at Leuctra, the other at Ceressus, about three hundred years before, when they overcame Lattamyas and the Thessalians, both which asserted the liberty of Greece. Again, on the sixth of Boedromion. the Persians were worsted by the Greeks at Marathon ; on the third, at Plataea, as also at Mycale ; on the twenty-fifth, at Arbela. The Athenians, about the full moon in Boedromion, gained their sea-victory at Naxos under the conduct of'Chabrias; on the twentieth, at Salamis, as we have shown in our treatise on Days. Thargelidn was a very unfortunate month to the barba- rians, for in it Alexander overcame Darius's generals on the Granicus ; and the Carthaginians, on the twenty- fourth, were beaten by Timoleon in Sicily, on which same day and month Troy seems to have been taken, as Ephorus, Callisthenes, Damastes, and Phylarchus state. On the other hand, the mouth Metagitnion, which in Bceotia is called Panemus, was not very lucky to the Greeks; for on its seventh day they were defeated by Antipater, at the battle in Cranon, and utterly ruined ; and before, at Cha?ronea, were defeated by Philip ; and on the very same day, same month, and same year, those that went with Archidamus into Italy were there cut off by the barbarians. The Carthaginians also observe the twenty- first of the same month, as bringing with it the largest number and the severest of their losses. I am not igno- rant, that, about the Feast of Mysteries, Thebes was de- stroyed the second time by Alexander ; and after that,

upon the very twentieth of Boedromion, on which day