...Sciences, vip zjj. both probable in itfelf, and from the following expreffion of Pliny : ** That they begun both their months " and years, not from the change, but from the fixth " day of the moon (44)." This is even a demonftration that their years confifted of a certain...

...druidical year, is both probable in itfelf, and from the following expreffion of Pliny : " That they be,;un both their months and years, not from the change, but from the fixth day of the moon." This ¡seven a demonftraiion that their years confifted of a certain number...

...the druidical year, is both probable in itself, and from the following expression of Pliny: " That they began both their months and years, not from the change, but from the sixth day of the moon." This is even a demonstration that their years consisted of a certain number of lunar revolutions, as...

...religious solemnities were monthly and some annual, appears to confirm those statements. Pliny says, " They began both their months and years, not from the change, but from the sixth day, of the moon." (Lib. xvi. cap. 44.) * De Hello Gallico, lib. vi. cap. 13, 14. Plutarch states, that " the inhabitants...

...By its changes they regulated every affair of importance, civil and religious. Pliny says they began their months and years, " not from the change, but from the sixth day of the moon." Herodotus speaks of the Cyn-esians, or Cyn-etae, or Cun-ei, as they are called by later writers, as...

...smaller divisions of time, and regulated the monthly religious ceremonies. Both months and years began, not from the change, but from the sixth day of the moon, when it first becomes visible. '2' Military operations were usually begun and religious ceremonies...