RULE, Subtract the given year from 776, dividet e remainder by 4, and to the quotient add one for the current Olympiad and one for the current year of it. Thus, in the event already instanced, Ol. 110,2 The reason of this is obvious by pursuing the analogy in the case of the years of Rome; for let us take an event which happened in the year 776, that is, in the first year of the first Olympiad, and if From 776 we take 776 we shall find that it will appear to have happened in no year of no Olympiad. I fear I may be thought prolix, but the importance of the subject to the learner makes me anxious to represent it in the plainest light I can. To the learned author of the Classical Dictionary the rising generation and their instructors owe so great obligations, that I can only say I wish this little book of mine may be but one-tenth as much and as deservedly esteemed. 1 |
