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Pericles (432 B.C.).
Solon dabbled, like many others, in re-
forms of the calendar. The common year of
the Greeks originally had 360 days–twelve
months of thirty days. Solon’s year was
354 days. It is obvious that these erro-
neous years would, before long, remove the
summer to January and the winter to July.
To prevent this it was customary at regu-
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