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DATE OF THE MARTYRDOM. 693<br />

(2) But again the particular expressions used are thought to betoken<br />

a lunar calendar.<br />

Thus it is<br />

supposed that only in a lunar calendar would the word<br />

to-TttjiteVou be in place, as it<br />

implies that the numbering of the days was<br />

not continuous and progressive, but that in the last decade of the month<br />

they were reckoned backwards, SeKctTT, ivciTr], etc. (^^tvoiro (or i^iov-<br />

Tos), as in the Attic lunar calendar. The same argument is applied<br />

likewise to the contemporary writer Aristides (Oj>. i. 448 sq), who not<br />

only reckons the days in the last decade of the month backwards,<br />

Se/cctTT;, ivdrr], oySorj, etc., but even speaks (p. 452) of rpcTr]

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