fit, ab ipso eventu διχομηνιάν, id est, medietatem mensis
nominarunt. Ac summatim, omnes dies a Lunæ illuminationi-
bus denominarunt. Unde etiam [tricasimam]mensis diem,
cum ultima sit, ab ipso eventu τριακάδα vocarunt.

The ancient Calendar year of the Greeks conisted [sic]
therefore of twelve Lunar months & every month of thirty days,
& these years & months they corrected from time to time
by the courses of the sun & Moon, omitting a day or
two in the month as often as they found the month too
long for the course of the Moon, & adding a month to
the year as often as they found the twelve lunar
months too short for the return of the four seasons.

Cleobulus ^a 1 , one of the seven wise men of Greece, alluded
to this year [illeg] of the Greeks in his Parable of one
father who had twelve sons, each of which had thirty
daughters, half white & half black. And Thales ^b 2 called
the last day of the month τριακάδα the thirtith. And
Solon counted the ten last days of the month backwards
from the thirtith, calling that day ἕνην καὶ νέαν,
the old & the new, or the [illeg] last day of the old month
& the first day of the new. For he introduced months of
29 & 30 days alternately, making the thirtith day of
every other month to be the first day of the next month.

To the twelve Lunar months ^a 3 the ancient Greeks added
a thirteenth every other year, w^ch made their [Dietarís].
And because this recconing made their year too long by a
month in eight years, they [illeg] omitted an intercalary
month once in eight years, which made their Octaeteris,
one half of w^ch was their Tetraeteris. And these periods
seem to have been as old as the religions of Greece, being
used in [divers] of their sacra. The Octaeteris ^b 4 was the annus magnus of Cadmus & Minos & seems to have
been. brought into Greece & Crete by the Phenicians who
came with Cadmus & Europa, & to have continued till
after the days of Herotodus. For in counting the length
of seventy years, ^c 5 he reccons thirty days to a Lunar month
& twelve such months or 360 days to the ordinary year
without the intercalary months, & 25 such months
to the [Dieteris], And according to the number of days in the
Calendar year of the Greeks, Demetrius Phalareus had 360
statues erected to him by the Athenians. But the Greeks
Cleostratus, Harpalus & others, to make their months agree
better with the course of the Moon, in the times of the Persian
empire, varied the manner of intercaling the three months
in the Octaeteris, intercaling a month in the second fourth
& seventh year, or in the third fift & eighth year, or third
[sixt] & eighth; & Meton found out the cycle of intercaling
seven months in nineteen years.

The ancient year of the Egyptians was also Lunisolar,
& continued to be so till the days of Hyperion or Osiris a king
on Egypt the father of Helius & Selene or [Orus] & Bubaste. For
the Israelites brought this year \out/ of Egypt, & Diodorus ^a 6 tells us
| y^t | Uranus the father of Hyperion used this year, & that ^b 7 in the
temple of Osiris the priests appointed [thereunto | there unto], filled 360 milk-
bowles every day. I think he means one bowle every day in
all 360 to count the number of days  in the calendar-year