CAAP. XVI. AN ECLIPSE OF THE SVNNE, AND THE DAY OF AGRIPPANA'S DEATH OBSERVED.
THis hapned when VIPSANIVS, and FONTEIVS were Consuls, in the very yeare of that grand eclypse of the Sunne which XIPHILINE saith was such, that the very starres of heauen appeared. That solemne feast, QVINQVATRVS, in honor of MINER∣VA, to the celebration whereof she was most of∣ficiously inuited by her sonne, with purpose to haue her dispatched out of the world, was vpon the fifth day after the Ides of March (including the Ides, according to the Gruterian Fragments of ROMAN inscriptions) & her plotted shipwracke was vpon the very night of that feast. Her tragadie therefore, by this computation, fell vpon the twen∣tieth of March▪ but constituting the QVINQVA∣TRVS (as some more warrantablie doe) vp∣on the thirteenth Kalends of Aprill, it was then the one and twentieth of March. A grea∣ter argument of diuine wakings ouer the doings of men, that afterwards vpon the very same day of the month, vpon which this mighty empresse