XXII. Observations on a Roman Horologium, found in Italy. By Richard Gough, Director

Richard Gough

doi:10.1017/S0261340900020567

XXII. Observations on a Roman Horologium, found in Italy. By Richard Gough, Director

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Richard Gough

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It cannot but be in the recollection of this learned Society, that an account of a Roman Horologium, the only one then supposed to be existing, was given in a Letter from the late Beaupré Bell, Esq. to the late Roger Gale, Esq. and published in the Archæologia, Vol. VI. p. 133. It appears to have been a solar dial fixed at some station near Taloire or Annecy, protected by a building, and that building guarded by a fence or palisade, and attended by an officer, or servant, to give notice of the hours. Mr. Gale has collected, and this inscription furnishes, many curious particulars respecting this instrument for measuring time; compared to which the simplest and rudest modern clock, or even the first contrived clock, would be a wonderful machine.

Type: Research Article
Information: Archaeologia , Volume 10 , 1789 , pp. 172 - 176

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261340900020567 [Opens in a new window]
Copyright: Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1789

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^{page 173 note [a]} Compare Athenæus, IX. c. 17. Plin. N. H. VII. 53. Martial VII. 67. Juvenal, Sat. X. 216. Seneca de Brevit. Vit. c. 12. Sueton. Domit. c. 16. Sid. Apollin. II. Epist. 9. The servant who announced the hour among the Greeks was called Παρητρια. Hesychius in voce.

^{page 173 note [b]} Censorinus, c. 23.

^{page 173 note [c]} Ib.

^{page 173 note [d]} Nat. Hist. VII. c. 60.

^{page 173 note [e]} Archæol. V. 417.

^{page 174 note [f]} Mittentem ad horas. De Claris Oratoribus § 200. Ed. Delph.

^{page 174 note [g]} De Re Rustica. III. c. 5.

^{page 174 note [h]} Stuart's Antiq. of Athens, I.

^{page 174 note [i]} C. 8.

^{page 175 note [k]} Hippias in fine.

^{page 175 note [l]} X. Ep. 48.

^{page 175 note [m]} Metam. XI.

^{page 175 note [n]} Fragm. in Lipsii Elect. XXII. 18. Controv. III. Theyestes, l. 798.

^{page 175 note [o]} IV. 4. l. 63.

^{page 175 note [p]} Supposed to have been contemporary with Alexander the Great.

^{page 175 note [q]} Vitruvius, IX. c. 9.

^{page 175 note [r]} Lambecius, Commentar. III. p. 10.

^{page 175 note [s]} De Die Nat. c. 10.

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