15/21 (See Book VIII, line 974.) (4) At the Battle of Actium. The island of Leucas, close to the promontory of Actium, is always named by Lucan when he refers to this battle. (See also Virgil, "Aeneid", viii., 677.) (5) Between Cleopatra and her brother. (See Professor Rawlinson's note to Herodotus.ii., 18.) (8) The calendar introduced by Caesar, in B.C.45, was founded on the Egyptian or solar year. (See Herodotus, ii., 4.) Eudoxus seems to have dealt with this year and to have corrected it. |