Note 161 — Second Part. (continued 2)
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Herodotus, bk. III. ch. 106., ἡ Ἑλλὰς τὰς ὥρας πολλόν τι κάλλιστα κεκραμένας ἔλαχη. (Hellas possesses seasons in many respects most admirably combined). Comp. Dahlmann, Herodotus pp. 90. sqq. Plato again praises the εὐκρασία τῶν ὡρῶν (happy mingling of the seasons) of Hellas in more than one passage; e.g. Timaeus 24, C., Critias III E., Epinom. 987 D.; and Aristophanes in a fragment of his Horae preserved by Athenaeus, Deipnos. IX. p. 372. says of Attica:
ὥστ’οὐκέτ’οὐδεὶς οἵδ’ ὁπηνίκ’ ἐστὶ τοὐνιαουτοῦ.
(So never yet has any man been able to tell precisely in what part of the year he is).