c_ expedition was thirty years after _Prometheus_ had been left
on _Mount Caucasus_ by _Sesostris_, that is, about 44 years after the death
of _Solomon_.

All nations, before the just length of the Solar year was known, reckoned
months by the course of the moon; and years by the [47] returns of winter
and summer, spring and autumn: and in making Calendars for their Festivals,
reckoned thirty days to a Lunar month, and twelve Lunar months to a year;
taking the nearest round numbers: whence came the division of the Ecliptic
into 360 degrees. So in the time of _Noah_'s flood, when the Moon could not
be seen, _Noah_ reckoned thirty days to a month: but if the Moon appeared a
day or two before the end of the month, [48] they began the next month with
the first day of her appearing: and this was done generally, 'till the
_Egyptians_ of _Thebais_ found the length of the Solar year. So [49]
_Diodorus_ tells us that _the _Egyptians_ of _Thebais_ use no intercalary
months, nor subduct any days_ [from the month] _as is done by most of the
_Greeks__. And [50] _Cicero_, _est consuetudo Siculorum caeterorumque
Graecorum, quod suos dies mensesque congruere volunt cum Solis Lunaeque
ratione, ut nonnumquam siquid discrepet, eximant unum aliquem diem aut
summum biduum ex mense_ [civili dierum triginta] _quos illi_ [Greek:
exairesimous] _dies nominant_. And _Proclus_, upon _Hesiod_'s [Greek:
triakas] mentions the same thing. And [51] _Geminus_: [Greek: Prothesis gar
en tois archaiois, tous men menas agein kata selenen, tous de eniautous
kath' helion. To gar hypo ton nomon, kai ton chresmon parangellomenon, to
thyein kata g', egoun ta patria, menas, hemeras, eniautous: touto dielabon
apantes hoi Hellenes toi tous men heniautous symphonos agein toi helioi;
tas de hemeras kai tous menas tei selene. esti de to men kath' helion agein
tous eniautous, to peri tas autas horas tou eniautou tas autas thysias tois
theois epiteleithai, kai ten men earinen thysian dia pantos kata to ear
synteleithai; ten de therinen, kata to theros; homoios de kai kata tous
loipous kairous tou etous tas autas thysias piptein. Touto gar hypelabon
prosenes, kai kecharismenon einai tois theois. Touto d' allos ouk an
dynaito genesthai, ei me hai tropai, kai hai isemeriai peri tous autous
topous gignointo. To de kata selenen agein tas hemeras, toiouton esti; to
akolouthos tois tes selenes photismois tas prosegorias ton hemeron
ginesthai. apo gar ton tes selenes photismon hai