Note 886 — Chapter XII
E. J. (Edward James) Chinnock translation
The Greeks reckoned according to the lunar months, and therefore they talked of ten months instead of nine as the period of gestation. Cf. Herodotus, vi. 63; Aristophanes (Thesmoph. 742); Menander (Plocion, fragment 3); Plautus (Cistell. i. 3, 15); Terence (Adelphi, iii. 4, 29).