For, says he, because of the double epact that occurs on the 4th and 5th of April that lunation has only 29 days.
In order to get out of the dilemma he makes that 27, by giving to another lunation only 29 days.
If such a table is consulted it will be found that never does a lunation pass without a few stars being noted as undergoing occultation, and now and then a planet.
During therefore the first half of a lunation the objects occulted disappear at the dark edge and reappear at the illuminated edge, during the second half of a lunation things are vice versâ.
In later times it was learned that the length for the lunation lay between twenty-nine and thirty days, and that these lengths for the month must be alternate as a general rule.
Now that lunation having commenced on the 3rd of December, and consisting of thirty days, will end on the 1st of January.
So that in both these cases fever commenced in half a lunation after the contagion was received.
It must happen sometimes that in the course of a lunation the sun enters into no new sign; in this case the month is intercalary, and is called by the same name as the preceding month.
It is also stated that a woman had the privilege of killing her offspring during the first lunation after the birth, but when she did so after that term she was put to death herself.
More than an entire lunation was lost with the Transit Circle, no observation of the Moon on the meridian having been possible between January 8 and March 1, a period of more than seven weeks.
Salutations to thee that art clad in black, to thee that art of dark and curly hair, to thee that hast a dark deer-skin for thy upper garment, to thee that presidest over the eighth lunation of the dark fortnight.
If asked, one should not say what the lunation is on a particular day.
