Kitap 2
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But in the case of eclipses of the sun or moon they concerned themselves no less with trying to discover the causes of that phenomenon. However, Marcus Cato, although a man with a great interest in investigation, nevertheless on this point expressed himself indecisively and superficially. His words in the fourth book of his Origins are as follows: Fr. 77, Peter. I do not care to write what appears on the tablet of the high priest: how often grain was dear, how often darkness, or something else, obscured the light Lumine is the old dat., cf. II viri iure dicundo and note 1, p. 153. of sun or moon. Of so little importance did he consider it either to know or to tell the true causes of eclipses of the sun and moon.
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A fable of the Phrygian Aesop, which is well worth telling.
