Liberal Arts

We may add that it was known even before Caesar that the solar year of 365 days 6 hours, which was the basis of the Egyptian calendar, and which he made the basis of his, was somewhat too long. the most exact calculation of the tropical year which the ancient world was acquainted with, that of Hipparchus, put it at 365 d. 5 h. 52' 1; "the true length is 365 d. 5 h. 48' 4". 119. Caesar stayed in Rome in April and Dec. 705, on each occasion for a few days; from Sept. to Dec. 707; some four months in the autumn of the year of fifteen months 708, and from Oct. 709 to March 710. Chapter XII Religion, Culture, Literature, and Art 1. V. VIII. Clodius 2. III. XIV. Cato's Encyclopedia. 3. These form, as is well known, the so-called seven liberal arts, which, with this distinction between the three branches of discipline earlier naturalized in Italy and the four subsequently received, maintained their position throughout the middle ages. 4. IV. XII. Latin Instruction. 5. Thus Varro (De R. R. i. 2) says: ab aeditimo, ut dicere didicimus a patribus nostris; ut corrigimur ab recenlibus urbanis, ab aedituo. 6 ...»