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SUMMARY:2018 calculation for Epicurus' Birthday
DESCRIPTION:(This may be moved to February 2nd\, but we are looking for con
 firmation.)\n\nFrom Gassendi's Life of Epicurus [URL:http://newepicurean.co
 m/epicurus/gassendis-epicurus/gassendis-epicurus-part-1-life-of-epicurus/#h
 .wuy7b7jl3vx]   Check this transcription against the PDF here [URL:https://
 archive.org/stream/StanleyThomasHistoryOfPhilosophyVol3EpicurusByGassendi/S
 tanley%2C%20Thomas%20-%20History%20of%20Philosophy%20Vol%203%20Epicurus%2C%
 20by%20Gassendi#page/n7/mode/2up].\n\nChap 2. The Time of His Birth\n\nEpic
 urus was born (as [29 [URL:http://newepicurean.com/epicurus/gassendis-epicu
 rus/gassendis-epicurus-part-1-life-of-epicurus/#_footnote29]] Laertius rela
 tes out of the Chronology of Apollodorus) in the 3rd year of the 109th Olym
 piad\, the 7th day of the month Gamelion\; at whose birth\, [30 [URL:http:/
 /newepicurean.com/epicurus/gassendis-epicurus/gassendis-epicurus-part-1-lif
 e-of-epicurus/#_footnote30]] Pliny saith\, the Moon was twenty daies old. H
 ecatombeon (the first month) this year falling in the Summer of the year 43
 72. of the Julian Period\, (now used by Chronologers) it is manifest\, that
  Gamelion the same year\, being the 7th month from Hecatombeon\, fell upon 
 the beginning of the year 4373\, which was before the ordinary computation 
 from Christ 341 compleat years. Now forasmuch as in January\, in which mont
 h the beginning of Gamelion is observ’d to have fallen\, there happened a n
 ew Moon in the Attick Horizon\, by the Tables of Celestiall Motions\, the f
 ourth day\, in the morning\, (or the third day\, according to the Athenians
 \, who as [31 [URL:http://newepicurean.com/epicurus/gassendis-epicurus/gass
 endis-epicurus-part-1-life-of-epicurus/#_footnote31]]Censorinus saith\, rec
 kon their day from Sun-set to Sun-set) and therefore the twentieth day of t
 he Moon is co-incident with the three and twentieth of January\; it will fo
 llow\, that Epicurus was born on the 23rd of January\, if we suppose the sa
 me form of the year extended from the time of Cefar\, upwards. And this in 
 the old style\, according to which the cycle of the Sun\, or of the Dominic
 al letters for that year\, (it being Biffextile) was BA\, whence the 23rd d
 ay of January must have been Sunday. But if we suit it with the Gregorian a
 ccount\, which is ten daies earlier\, (now in use with us we shall find\, t
 hat Epicurus was born on the 2nd of February\, which was Sunday\, (for the 
 Dominicall Letters must have been ED.) in the year before Christ\, or the C
 hristian computation\, 341. and consequently in the 1974th year\, compleat\
 , before the beginning of February this year\, which is from Christ 1634. S
 ome things here must not be passed by.\n\nFirst\, that [32 [URL:http://newe
 picurean.com/epicurus/gassendis-epicurus/gassendis-epicurus-part-1-life-of-
 epicurus/#_footnote32]] Laertius observes Sosigenes to have been Archon the
  same year\, wherein Epicurs was born\, and that it was the 7th year from t
 he death of Plato. Moreover\, it was the 16th of Alexander\, for it was\, a
 s the same [33 [URL:http://newepicurean.com/epicurus/gassendis-epicurus/gas
 sendis-epicurus-part-1-life-of-epicurus/#_footnote33]] Laertius affirms\, t
 he year immediately following that\, in which Aristotle was sent for to com
 e to him\, then 15 years old.\n\nSecondly\, that [34 [URL:http://newepicure
 an.com/epicurus/gassendis-epicurus/gassendis-epicurus-part-1-life-of-epicur
 us/#_footnote34]] Eusebius can hardly be excused from a mistake\, making Ep
 icurus to flourish in the 112th Olympiad\; for at that time\, Epicurus scar
 ce had pass’d his childhood\, and Aristotle began but to flourish in the Ly
 ceum\, being returned the foregoing Olympiad out of Macedonia\, as appears 
 from [35 [URL:http://newepicurean.com/epicurus/gassendis-epicurus/gassendis
 -epicurus-part-1-life-of-epicurus/#_footnote35]] Laertius.\n\nThirdly\, tha
 t the error which is crept into [36 [URL:http://newepicurean.com/epicurus/g
 assendis-epicurus/gassendis-epicurus-part-1-life-of-epicurus/#_footnote36]]
  Suidas\, and hath deceived his Interpreter\, is not to be allowed\, who re
 ports Epicurus born in the 79th Olympiad. I need not take notice\, how much
  this is inconsistent\, not onely with other relations\, but even with that
  which followeth in Suidas\, where he extends his life to Antigonus Gonotas
 : I shall onely observe\, that\, for the number of Olympiads\, Suidas havin
 g doubtlesse set down ςθ\, which denote the 109th 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.\n\nFourthly\, that it matt
 ers not that the Chronicon Alexandrinum\, Georgius Sincellus\, and others\,
  speak too largely of the time wherein Epicurus flourished\, and that we he
 ed not the errous of some person\, otherwise very learned\, who make Aristi
 ppus later then Epicurus\, and something of the like kind. Let us onely obs
 erve what [37 [URL:http://newepicurean.com/epicurus/gassendis-epicurus/gass
 endis-epicurus-part-1-life-of-epicurus/#_footnote37]] St. Hierom cites out 
 of Cicero pro Gallio\; a Poet is there mentioned\, making Epicurus and Socr
 ates discoursing together\, Whose times\, saith Cicero\, we know were disjo
 yned\, not by years\, but ages.\n\nFifthly\, that the birth-day of Epicurus
 \, taken from Laertius and Pliny\, seems to argue\, that amongst the Atheni
 ans of old\, the Civill months and the Lunary had different beginnings. Thi
 s indeed will seem strange\, unlesse we should imagine it may be collected\
 , that the month Gamelion began onely from the full Moon that went before i
 t\; for\, if we account the 14th day of the Moon to be the first of the mon
 th\, the first of the Moon will fall upon the 7th of the month. Not to ment
 ion\, that Epicurus seems in his Will to appoint his birth to be celebrated
  on the first Decad of the dayes of the month Gamelion\, because he was bor
 n in one of them\; and then ordaineth something more particular concerning 
 the 20th of the Moon\, for that it was his birth-day\, as we shall relate h
 ereafter. Unlesse you think it fit to follow the [38 [URL:http://newepicure
 an.com/epicurus/gassendis-epicurus/gassendis-epicurus-part-1-life-of-epicur
 us/#_footnote38]] anonymous Writer\, who affirms\, Epicurus was born on the
  20th day of Gamelion\; but I know not whether his authority should out-wei
 gh Laertius. Certainly\, many errours\, and those very great\, have been ob
 served in him\, particularly by Meurfius. I shall not take notice\, that th
 e XXXX of Gamelion might perhaps be understood of the 20th of the Moon\, ha
 ppening within the month Gamelion\, from Cicero\, whose words we shall cite
  hereafter. But this by the way.
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