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SUMMARY:Epicurus' Birthday 2019
DESCRIPTION:Epicurus Birthday 2019! - let's find a way to mark the occasion
 .\n\n\n\nFrom Gassendi's Life of Epicurus [URL:http://newepicurean.com/epic
 urus/gassendis-epicurus/gassendis-epicurus-part-1-life-of-epicurus/#h.wuy7b
 7jl3vx]   Check this transcription against the PDF here [URL:https://archiv
 e.org/stream/StanleyThomasHistoryOfPhilosophyVol3EpicurusByGassendi/Stanley
 %2C%20Thomas%20-%20History%20of%20Philosophy%20Vol%203%20Epicurus%2C%20by%2
 0Gassendi#page/n7/mode/2up].\n\nChap 2. The Time of His Birth\n\nEpicurus w
 as born (as ] Laertius relates out of the Chronology of Apollodorus) in the
  3rd year of the 109th Olympiad\, the 7th day of the month Gamelion\; at wh
 ose birth\, [URL:http://newepicurean.com/epicurus/gassendis-epicurus/gassen
 dis-epicurus-part-1-life-of-epicurus/#_footnote29]] Pliny saith\, the Moon 
 was twenty daies old. Hecatombeon (the first month) this year falling in th
 e Summer of the year 4372. of the Julian Period\, (now used by Chronologers
 ) it is manifest\, that Gamelion the same year\, being the 7th month from H
 ecatombeon\, fell upon the beginning of the year 4373\, which was before th
 e ordinary computation from Christ 341 compleat years. Now forasmuch as in 
 January\, in which month the beginning of Gamelion is observ’d to have fall
 en\, there happened a new Moon in the Attick Horizon\, by the Tables of Cel
 estiall Motions\, the fourth day\, in the morning\, (or the third day\, acc
 ording to the Athenians\, who as [URL:http://newepicurean.com/epicurus/gass
 endis-epicurus/gassendis-epicurus-part-1-life-of-epicurus/#_footnote30]]Cen
 sorinus saith\, reckon their day from Sun-set to Sun-set) and therefore the
  twentieth day of the Moon is co-incident with the three and twentieth of J
 anuary\; it will follow\, that Epicurus was born on the 23rd of January\, i
 f we suppose the same form of the year extended from the time of Cefar\, up
 wards. And this in the old style\, according to which the cycle of the Sun\
 , or of the Dominical letters for that year\, (it being Biffextile) was BA\
 , whence the 23rd day of January must have been Sunday. But if we suit it w
 ith the Gregorian account\, which is ten daies earlier\, (now in use with u
 s we shall find\, that Epicurus was born on the 2nd of February\, which was
  Sunday\, (for the Dominicall Letters must have been ED.) in the year befor
 e Christ\, or the Christian computation\, 341. and consequently in the 1974
 th year\, compleat\, before the beginning of February this year\, which is 
 from Christ 1634. Some things here must not be passed by. [URL:http://newep
 icurean.com/epicurus/gassendis-epicurus/gassendis-epicurus-part-1-life-of-e
 picurus/#_footnote31]\n\n [URL:http://newepicurean.com/epicurus/gassendis-e
 picurus/gassendis-epicurus-part-1-life-of-epicurus/#_footnote31]\n\n\n\nFir
 st\, that [URL:http://newepicurean.com/epicurus/gassendis-epicurus/gassendi
 s-epicurus-part-1-life-of-epicurus/#_footnote31]] Laertius observes Sosigen
 es to have been Archon the same year\, wherein Epicurs was born\, and that 
 it was the 7th year from the death of Plato. Moreover\, it was the 16th of 
 Alexander\, for it was\, as the same [URL:http://newepicurean.com/epicurus/
 gassendis-epicurus/gassendis-epicurus-part-1-life-of-epicurus/#_footnote32]
 ] Laertius affirms\, the year immediately following that\, in which Aristot
 le was sent for to come to him\, then 15 years old. [URL:http://newepicurea
 n.com/epicurus/gassendis-epicurus/gassendis-epicurus-part-1-life-of-epicuru
 s/#_footnote33]\n\n [URL:http://newepicurean.com/epicurus/gassendis-epicuru
 s/gassendis-epicurus-part-1-life-of-epicurus/#_footnote33]\n\nSecondly\, th
 at [URL:http://newepicurean.com/epicurus/gassendis-epicurus/gassendis-epicu
 rus-part-1-life-of-epicurus/#_footnote33]] Eusebius can hardly be excused f
 rom a mistake\, making Epicurus to flourish in the 112th Olympiad\; for at 
 that time\, Epicurus scarce had pass’d his childhood\, and Aristotle began 
 but to flourish in the Lyceum\, being returned the foregoing Olympiad out o
 f Macedonia\, as appears from [URL:http://newepicurean.com/epicurus/gassend
 is-epicurus/gassendis-epicurus-part-1-life-of-epicurus/#_footnote34]] Laert
 ius. [URL:http://newepicurean.com/epicurus/gassendis-epicurus/gassendis-epi
 curus-part-1-life-of-epicurus/#_footnote35]\n\n [URL:http://newepicurean.co
 m/epicurus/gassendis-epicurus/gassendis-epicurus-part-1-life-of-epicurus/#_
 footnote35]\n\n\n\nThirdly\, that the error which is crept into [URL:http:/
 /newepicurean.com/epicurus/gassendis-epicurus/gassendis-epicurus-part-1-lif
 e-of-epicurus/#_footnote35]] Suidas\, and hath deceived his Interpreter\, i
 s not to be allowed\, who reports Epicurus born in the 79th Olympiad. I nee
 d not take notice\, how much this is inconsistent\, not onely with other re
 lations\, but even with that which followeth in Suidas\, where he extends h
 is life to Antigonus Gonotas: I shall onely observe\, that\, for the number
  of Olympiads\, Suidas having doubtlesse set down ςθ\, which denote the 109
 th Olympiad\, the end of the ς was easily defaced in the Manuscript\, so as
  there remained onely ο\, by which means of οθ\, was made the 79th Olympiad
 . [URL:http://newepicurean.com/epicurus/gassendis-epicurus/gassendis-epicur
 us-part-1-life-of-epicurus/#_footnote36]\n\n [URL:http://newepicurean.com/e
 picurus/gassendis-epicurus/gassendis-epicurus-part-1-life-of-epicurus/#_foo
 tnote36]\n\n\n\nFourthly\, that it matters not that the Chronicon Alexandri
 num\, Georgius Sincellus\, and others\, speak too largely of the time where
 in Epicurus flourished\, and that we heed not the errous of some person\, o
 therwise very learned\, who make Aristippus later then Epicurus\, and somet
 hing of the like kind. Let us onely observe what [URL:http://newepicurean.c
 om/epicurus/gassendis-epicurus/gassendis-epicurus-part-1-life-of-epicurus/#
 _footnote36]] St. Hierom cites out of Cicero pro Gallio\; a Poet is there m
 entioned\, making Epicurus and Socrates discoursing together\, Whose times\
 , saith Cicero\, we know were disjoyned\, not by years\, but ages. [URL:htt
 p://newepicurean.com/epicurus/gassendis-epicurus/gassendis-epicurus-part-1-
 life-of-epicurus/#_footnote37]\n\n [URL:http://newepicurean.com/epicurus/ga
 ssendis-epicurus/gassendis-epicurus-part-1-life-of-epicurus/#_footnote37]\n
 \n\n\nFifthly\, that the birth-day of Epicurus\, taken from Laertius and Pl
 iny\, seems to argue\, that amongst the Athenians of old\, the Civill month
 s and the Lunary had different beginnings. This indeed will seem strange\, 
 unlesse we should imagine it may be collected\, that the month Gamelion beg
 an onely from the full Moon that went before it\; for\, if we account the 1
 4th day of the Moon to be the first of the month\, the first of the Moon wi
 ll fall upon the 7th of the month. Not to mention\, that Epicurus seems in 
 his Will to appoint his birth to be celebrated on the first Decad of the da
 yes of the month Gamelion\, because he was born in one of them\; and then o
 rdaineth something more particular concerning the 20th of the Moon\, for th
 at it was his birth-day\, as we shall relate hereafter. Unlesse you think i
 t fit to follow the [URL:http://newepicurean.com/epicurus/gassendis-epicuru
 s/gassendis-epicurus-part-1-life-of-epicurus/#_footnote37]] anonymous Write
 r\, who affirms\, Epicurus was born on the 20th day of Gamelion\; but I kno
 w not whether his authority should out-weigh Laertius. Certainly\, many err
 ours\, and those very great\, have been observed in him\, particularly by M
 eurfius. I shall not take notice\, that the XXXX of Gamelion might perhaps 
 be understood of the 20th of the Moon\, happening within the month Gamelion
 \, from Cicero\, whose words we shall cite hereafter. But this by the way. 
 [URL:http://newepicurean.com/epicurus/gassendis-epicurus/gassendis-epicurus
 -part-1-life-of-epicurus/#_footnote38]\n\n [URL:http://newepicurean.com/epi
 curus/gassendis-epicurus/gassendis-epicurus-part-1-life-of-epicurus/#_footn
 ote38]
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