Note 9 — Chapter I · THE DAY.
F. J. Fielden translation
See further Usener, Götternamen, p. 289. E. g. Pindar, Ol. XIII, 37, ἀελίῳ ἀμφ’ ἑνί (‘in one day’), Euripides, Helena 652, ἡλίους δὲ μυρίους μόγις διελθών (‘with difficulty passing through thousands of suns’), and in a sacred regulation ἐᾶσαι οὕτως ἔστε κα τρεῖς ἅλιοι γένωνται (‘to leave so until three suns have passed’), Blinkenberg, Die lindische Tempelchronik, p. 38, Part D, 1. 72, (Bonn, 1915) etc. In Latin still more frequently, e. g. Silius, Punica, III, 554, Bis senos soles, totidem per vulnera saevas emensi noctes, etc.