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

[659] Strabo, III, 4, 16 (p. 164).

[660] Coeunt, nisi quid fortuitum et subitum inciderit, certis diebus, cum aut inchoatur luna aut impletur: nam agendis rebus hos auspicatissimum initium credunt—Tac., Germ., XI.

[661] With this section cp. Webster, ch. V, Lunar Superstitions and Festivals.

[662] Spencer, p. 456.

[663] Cp. [below, p. 160].

[664] Homfray, p. 61.

[665] Man, p. 337.

[666] Heckewelder, p. 527.

[667] Reed, p. 64.

[668] Hambruch, p. 57.