Primitive Time-reckoning / A study in the origins and first development of the art of counting time among the primitive and early culture peoples

by Martin P. Nilsson

[469] Cp. my article in Arch. f. Religionswiss., 14, 1911, p. 429.

[470] Od. XI, 17; XII, 380; see [above, p. 35].

[471] ἀστέρ’ ὀπωρινῷ ἐναλίγκιον. ὅστε μάλιστα λαμπρὸν παμφαίνῃσι λελουμένος Ὠκεανοῖο—II. V, 5: ‘bathed in the Ocean’, since Sirius at his rising emerges like the sun from the ocean.

[472] οὔλιος ἀστὴρ παμφαίνων—II. XI, 62.

[473] ὀψὲ δυόντα Βοώτην—Od. V, 272.

[474] Il. XVIII, 489; Od. V, 275.

[475] οὐδέ οἱ ὕπνος ἐπὶ βλεφάροισιν ἔπιπτεν Πληιάδας τ’ ἐσορῶντι καὶ ὀψὲ δύοντα Βοώτην ἄρκτον κ. τ. λ.—Od. V, 271 ff., translated by A. S. Way.

[476] Il. XVIII, 486.

[477] Od. XIII, 93.

[478] Op., vv. 528 ff.