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The Sexagesimal System and the Cradle of the Aryans

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2009

George Hempl
George Hempl
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Ann Arbor
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The Classical Review , Volume 16 , Issue 8 , November 1902 , pp. 413 - 416
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1902

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page 414 note 1 Tacitus, Dialogus, c. 17: centum et viginti anni … unius hominis aetas. Censorinus1 quotation (de d. n. 17) from Varro's Antiquitates, book xviii: ut traderent historici de Romuli urbis condendae auguriis ac duodecim vulturiis, quoniam CXX annos incolumis praeterisset, populum Romanum ad MCC perventurum. Here we hare 12, 120, and 1200. For the whole matter see the discussion by Gudeman, , P. Cornelii Taciti Dialogus de Oratoribus, Boston, 1894, p. 186–187.Google Scholar Also Pauly-Wissowa, under centuria, p. 1961Google Scholar: Centuria est quadrata in omnes quattuor partes, ut habedt latera longa pedes MMCD, Varro de r. r. i., 10, 2; also, da 1 iugerum = 2 Quadratactus zu je 120 römische Fuss im Quadrat, etc.