SOTHIC PERIOD

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SOTHIC PERIOD , in

ancient

Egyptian

chronology

CHRONOLOGY (Gr. xpovo?oyfa, computation of
time
- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the
  root
  - ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
  - ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )
  also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
, xp6vos)

, the

period

PERIOD
PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round,
circuit
- CIRCUIT (Lat. circuitus, from circum, round, and ire, to go)
, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

in which the year of 365 days circled in succession through all the seasons. The tropical year, determined as it was in

Egypt

EGYPT

by the

heliacal

HELIACAL

rising of Sirius (Sothis), was almost exactly the

Julian

JULIAN (FLAVIUS CLAUDIUS JULIANUS) (331-363)

year of precisely 3654 days (differing from the true

solar

SOLAR, SOLLER (Lat. solarium, Fr.• galetas, Ital. solaio)

year, which was II minutes less than this). The sothic

period

PERIOD
PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round,
circuit
- CIRCUIT (Lat. circuitus, from circum, round, and ire, to go)
, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

was thus 1461 years.
See

EGYPT

EGYPT

Ancient

, F. "

Chronology

CHRONOLOGY (Gr. xpovo?oyfa, computation of
time
- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the
  root
  - ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
  - ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )
  also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
, xp6vos)

."

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