Lunar eclipse
event · 4 works · 4 mentions · 4 anchored passages
eclipse of the moon · eclipse · the moon suffers eclipse · the moon... grew dark
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Aemilius Paulus (Greek)
Now, when night had come, and the soldiers, after supper, were betaking themselves to rest and sleep, on a sudden the moon, which was full and high in the heavens, grew dark, lost its light, took on all sorts of colours in succession, and finally disappeared.
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Metaphysics
The eclipse of the moon, cited as an example of a fact whose cause can genuinely be sought once the fact itself is evident.
, that the moon suffers eclipse;
Aemilius Paulus
A lunar eclipse occurring on the night before the battle, provoking rituals among the Romans and terror among the Macedonians.
Now, when night had come, and the soldiers, after supper, were betaking themselves to rest and sleep, on a sudden the moon, which was full and high in the heavens, grew dark, lost its light, took on all sorts of colours in succession, and finally disappeared.
Now, Aemilius was not altogether without knowledge and experience of the irregularities of eclipses, which, at fixed periods, carry the moon in her course into the shadow of the earth and conceal her from sight, until she passes beyond the region of shadow and reflects again the light of the sun;
The Romans, according to their custom, tried to call her light back by the clashing of bronze utensils and by holding up many blazing fire-brands and torches towards the heavens;
Nicias
The nighttime lunar eclipse that terrifies Nicias and leads him to delay the Athenian retreat by a full month, with fatal consequences.
But just as everything was prepared for this and none of the enemy were on the watch, since they did not expect the move at all, there came an eclipse of the moon by night.
but what what it was that the moon encountered, and how, being at the full, she should on a sudden lose her light and emit all sorts of colors, this was no easy thing to comprehend.
History of the Peloponnesian War
A full-moon lunar eclipse occurring as the Athenians prepare to withdraw from Syracuse, which Nicias's religious scruple turns into a fatal delay.
And when, after all was in readiness, they were on the point of sailing away, the moon was eclipsed;