THE COLIGNY CALENDAR

the solstice in the Calendar. For on the second day of the Atenouxtion of Samonios, that is the seventeenth day as reckoned without a break from the beginning of the month, we have the entry M D TRINO SAM SINDIV and opposite it in the next year ni D T RINV% I SAMO. The former occurs in the first year, and it may be rendered ' A lucky day: the trinoux[tion] of Samonios to-day', which I understand to mean that the trinouxtion, or period of three nights of equal lengths, began on that day. The trinouxtion accordingly counted perhaps two days, the seventeenth and eighteenth, for the reason that one could hardly detect that the sun did not rise in exactly the same place on those two days, wherein we seem to have an apt illustration of the literal meaning of the Latin word solstitium, 'the time when the sun appears to stand still.' This applies to the longest day of summer, but for the Sequanians it covered three nights, let us say the space of two days. Or shall we say rather that originally it covered two days, but that by the date of their Calendar as we have it, they