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Thucydides on the Third of August, 431 B.C.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

J. A. R. Munro
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Thucydides, II. 28, records an eclipse of the sun in the summer of the first year of the Peloponnesian war. It can be no other than the annular eclipse of the 3rd of August, 431 B.C. He describes the phenomenon so accurately and with so many details that we can hardly doubt that he observed it himself — Tοῦ δ' αủτοῦ θέρονς γονμηνιᾳ κατά σελήγηγ, ὤσπερ και μόγογ δοκει ειναι γιγνεσθαι δνγατόγ, ό λιος έξέλιπε μετά μεσημβριαγ και πάλιγ άγ επληρὡθη, γενόμενος μηνοειδής και άστέρὡν τινὡν έκΦανέντων.

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Research Article
Information
The Classical Quarterly , Volume 13 , Issue 3-4 , July 1919 , pp. 127 - 128
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1919

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