Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae, John C. Rolfe (Translator), 20.3.3

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[3] And although the revolutions and movements of both heavenly bodies, as the searchers¹ for intelligible causes had observed, after the course of the moon is completed,² meet at one and the same point always at the same distance from each other,³ yet the sun is not always eclipsed at such times, but only when the moon (by a kind of fiery plumb-line)⁴ is directly opposite the sun and interposed between its orb and our vision.

Res Gestae. Ammianus Marcellinus. John C. Rolfe (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1935-1940.

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History (English) (Ammianus Marcellinus. Ammianus Marcellinus, with an English translation, Vols. I-III. Rolfe, John C., translator. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press; W. Heinemann, 1935-1940 (printing).)

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[3] Ac licet utriusque sideris conversiones et motus, ut scrutatores causarum intellegibilium adverterant, in unum eundemque finem, lunari cursu impleto, perenni distinctione conveniunt, tamen sol non semper his diebus obducitur, sed cum luna e regione (velut libramento quodam igneo) orbi et aspectui nostro opponitur media.

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History

1. The natural philosophers.

2. At the end of each lunar month.

3. I.e. are in conjunction.

4. According to Clark’s punctuation, based upon metrical clausulae (Introd., p. xxii); but igneo seems to be more naturally taken with orbi.

Ammianus Marcellinus Res Gestae 20.3.3

John C. Rolfe (Translator)

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