Solar eclipse
event · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
eclipse of the sun · the eclipse of the sun
in the texts
On Benefits
A natural astronomical event in which the moon passes between the sun and the earth, misunderstood by King Archelaus as an omen.
Socrates is reported to have said that he was unwilling to come to one from whom he would receive benefits, when he could not return him equal ones.
History of the Peloponnesian War
A solar eclipse observed at the beginning of a lunar month during the first summer of the war, described in careful astronomical detail.
The same summer, at the beginning of a new lunar month, (the only time at which it appears possible,) the sun was eclipsed after mid-day, and became full again after it had assumed a crescent form, and after some of the stars had shone out.