menon to which the mortal eye has been witness
since the creation of the globe. A distinct chapter of Pliny is designed
for eclipses of an extraordinary nature and unusual duration; but he
contents himself with describing the singular defect of light which
followed the murder of Caesar, when, during the greatest part of a year,
the orb of the sun appeared pale and without splendor. The season
of obscurity, which cannot surely be compared with the preternatural
darkness of the Passion, had been already celebrated by most of the
poets and historians of that memorable age.

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