fix'd the vernal Equinox to the Middle of the Ram; the autumnal Equinox to the Middle of Libra; our Summer Solſtice to the Middle of Cancer, and our Winter Solſtice to the Middle of Capricorn.
A long Time after the Expedition of the Argonauts, and a Year before the Peloponneſian War, Methon obſerv'd that the Point of the Summer Solſtice paſs'd thro' the eighth Degree of Cancer.
Now every Sign of the Zodiack contains thirty Degrees. In Chiron's Time, the Solſtice was arriv'd at the Middle of the Sign, that is to ſay to the fifteenth Degree. A Year before the Peloponneſian War it was at the eighth, and therefore it had retarded ſeven Degrees. A Degree is equivalent to ſeventy two Years; conſequently, from the Beginning of the Peloponneſian War to the Expedition of the Argonauts, there is no more than an Interval of ſeven times ſeventy two Years, which make five hundred and four Years, and not ſeven hundred Years, as the Greeks computed. Thus in com-
