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When Herodotus returns from Rome, fifteen days, as he supposed, before the
comitia, he comes on the month of the comitia, when the comitia have been held
thirty days before. Then the people of Cephalaedium voted an intercalary month of
forty-five days, in order that the rest of the months might fall again into their
proper season. If these things could be done at Rome, no doubt he would somehow or other have contrived to have the
forty-five days between the two sets of games taken away, during which days alone
this trial could take place.
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