[308] Mommsen, Abhandl. der Sächs. Akademie d. Wissensch., 1850, 1, 618. The figure XIII. signifies the Epact. This proves that the 1st January fell on a Saturday, and that B was the dominical letter.
[309] L’Art de vérifier les Dates dep. J. Chr., I. 111.
[310] [This refers to the ancient practice of dating the years of an emperor’s reign, not from the actual date of his accession, but from the New Year’s Day either preceding or following his accession. The years of the emperor’s reign were thus brought into artificial agreement with the calendar year. Numbering the years of the emperor’s reign from the actual date of his accession is, in Mommsen’s phrase, taking them as effektiv.—Trans.]
[311] I have attempted to show how this difference is to be explained in an article in the Innsbr. Zeitschr. für Kath. Theologie, xv. (1891), 519 et seqq.
[312] Vid. [Appendix vi].
[313] St Luke i. 5, 8.
[314] 1 Esdr. vi. 18.
[315] Antiq. vii. 14, 7.
[316] Antiq. vii. 11, 7, 1; 12, 6, 4; 7, 6. 1 Mach. i. 57; iv. 18.
[317] So Lamy (Apparatus Chronol. et Geogr., 61) referring to the Tractate Erachin and Taanit.