L. VIVES.
EAch (a) part hath a] A number quadrate is that which is formed by multiplication of it self, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 three times three, foure times foure, and six times sixe. The yeare hath 365. daies and sixe 〈◊〉〈◊〉: those computators did exclude the fiue daies and sixe houres, and diuiding the three •…•…dred & sixty into ten partes, the quotient was, thirty sixe. (b) Foure times] Of this reade 〈◊〉〈◊〉 in Caesar. Censorin. Macrob. and B•…•…da. Before Caesars time the yeare had three hundred •…•…-fiue daies. And obseruing that the true yeare required ten daies and six houres more, it was put to the priests, at the end of February to interpose two and twenty daies, and because that these six houres euery fourth yeare became a day, then it was added, and this month was 〈◊〉〈◊〉 nothing but the intercalatory month. In the intercalary month saith Asconius, Tully 〈◊〉〈◊〉 for Milo. Now this confused interposition, Caesar beeing dictator tooke away, com∣•…•…ding them to keepe a yeare of three hundred sixty fiue daies, and euery fourth yeare inter∣•…•… a day into the Calends of March, which was called Bissextile▪ because the sixth of the •…•…ds of March was twise set downe in such yeares▪ for the better adapting of these to the 〈◊〉〈◊〉▪ •…•…e made a yeare of fifteene monthes interposing two monthes betweene No•…•…mber and •…•…ber, with the intercalary month for that yeare: and this was to bring the month •…•…nd 〈◊〉〈◊〉 to the course of the Sun: for the accounts made by winter and sommer, they called the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of confusion, for it contained 443. daies, (c) Pliny] Lib. 7. cap. 48.