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

[479] vv. 414 ff.

[480] Pfeiffer, pp. 1 ff.

[481] Alcaeus, fr. 28a Matth.:—τέγγε πλεύμονα ϝοίνῳ· τὸ γὰρ ἄστρον περιτέλλεται. Cp. Theognis vv. 1039 f.

[482] Aeschylus, Agam., vv. 4 ff., translated by E. Thring.

[483] Schol. Aesch. Prom., 457; Soph. Palam., fr. 399 N².

[484] Aesch., Prom., 453 ff., translated by R. Whitelaw.

[485] Soph., Oed. Rex, v. 113,—ἐξ ἦρος εἰς ἀρκτοῦρον ἑκμήνους χρόνους.

[486] Gundel, pp. 99 ff.

[487] Rehm.

[488] Sprenger, pp. 162 ff.