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694 EPISTLE OF S. POLYCARP.
8' dvareWovTO -qXcov o Kvcov cTriTeAXciv Trap tjjjuv iv
Jlepyafjuo
ttcttia-revrai
(ii. p. 298, ed. Bussemaker & Daremberg, Paris 1851), where
the context shows that a solar calendar is meant.
(3) Again it is argued by Wieseler and Salmon that, if the name
Xanthicus were the designation of both a solar and a lunar month,
the confusion would be intolerable. Undoubtedly there would be
and at the
confusion, if the two were so called in the same locality
same epoch. Yet this is
exactly what happened with the Egyptian
months, where two calendars were used side by side (Ideler i. p. 140 sq).
But why need we suppose that in Proconsular Asia they were used
simultaneously The Romans, when the Julian calendar was introduced,
transferred the old names of the lunar months, Januarius,
Februarius, etc., to the new solar calendar. Why then should not the
Macedonians and the Greeks of Asia Minor have done the same
As a matter of fact, we do find the same names retained continuously
in divers cities of Proconsular Asia long after the solar calendar had
superseded the lunar. Thus for instance at Julia
following series of inscriptions';
CTOvs p Kttt e' (Jirj. ^va\Tpov\ =A.D. 21
tTors pfJ'P p-y]- YiavTjfxov y =A.D. 58
trovi cr'
fxr].
SavStKou ijS
=A.D. 116
Irous at,' /XT/.
HavStKov /3i'
=A.D. 123
CTous crA.^'
/xr].
HarStKOu ^ =A.D. 152
erov^ crXr]' /JLt].
AvSveov TerpaSt =A.D. 155
eVovs t'
fxr]. ^vcnpov t8' = A. D. 216
eVous ry' i^r].
Kv^vkov = A.D. 219
tTous t8' fXT]. ^vcrrpov at =A.D. 220
CTOvs TV^' /x. na[j'77]//.ou [ta']
=A.D. 275.
Gordus we have the
Again in inscriptions found in and near Maonia and Coloe, two
neighbouring Lydian cities in the valley of the Hermus, not far from
Philadelphia, we meet with these dates';
€Tov pK /XT]. 'YneplSepeTaLOv 6l =A.D. 36
erovs o"'
ZuvSlkov i^'
= A.D. 1 16
firjvos
^
These inscriptions will be found ducted 84 years, disregarding
the differpartly
in Lebas and Waddington Asie ence in the commencement of the year.
Minetire Inner. 111. nos. Syg — 683, partly So also Franz {C. I. G. ill. p. 1104).
in a paper by P. Paris in Bullet, de On the other hand Boeckh (li. p. 808),
Correspond. Hellcn, viii. p. 382 389. following Leake, supposes them to refer
I have treated these Mreonian dates to the era of Actiuni (I
know not for what
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as following the Sullan era (August, B.C. reason). This would push them some
85), as Waddington does, and have dc- 54 years later.