Note 347 — Chapter XIII
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Crit. xlvi.; Pusculus, iv. 889, says:
Candida completo cum Phoebe surgeret orbe Moesta prodit, fati miseri cladisque propinquae Nuntia; nam tristis faciem velamine nubis Tecta atrae, mediaque latens plus parte sereno Incedit coelo.
Barbaro seems to describe an eclipse of the moon on May 22. The elder Dr. Mordtmann states that there was no full moon and consequently no eclipse on the 22nd, but that there was on the 24th. Dethier’s note on The Moscovite, p. 1100. Phrantzes, p. 264, speaks of a light flashing from the sky settling over the city, and remaining during the whole night. See note, post p. 316.