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Some notes on “De solstitiis et aequinoctiis” (CPL 2277)
There are very few sources for a Roman festival of the sun on 25th December. The main one is the entry in the Chronography of 354, in the Philocalian Calendar, labelling the day as “Natalis Invicti”,...
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Happy New Year, everyone. I’ve created an electronic Latin text of the De solstitia et aequinoctia from the 1530 Froben edition. This probably has some OCR errors in it, as I have already spotted one....
View ArticleThe text of De Solstitia et De aequinoctia (CPL 2277)
I’ve written a couple of posts already on this obscure late-antique text. The text was first printed in 1530 as part of the works of Chrysostom – it is, indeed, transmitted in Latin as part of a...
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The big news is that Dr Isabella Image has today very kindly sent me a rather wonderful draft translation of an anonymous 4th century text, De solstitiis et aequinoctiis, about which I have written...
View Article“De solstitiis et aequinoctiis” (CPL 2277) – now online in English!
I’ve written before about this interesting 4th century text, De solstitiis et aequinoctiis (On the solstices and equinoxes), here and on posts linked here, including creating an electronic text. The...
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