805

 Emmerich, The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary, p. 115. Cf. The Life of Jesus Christ and Biblical Revelations, Vol. 1, 

p. 177. 

806

 Pliny, Natural History, 2.30. Julius Caesar is obviously the one referred to as the dictator who was murdered. 

The circumstances of his death, described by Suetonius, Josephus, and others make it clear Julius Caesar was 

murdered. And he was long thought of, and referred to, in ancient Rome, as a dictator. 

807

 Based on eclipse data from RedShift 3 astronomy software and Fred Espenak, Five Millennium Catalog of Solar 

Eclipses, NASA/GSFC, . 

808

 Pliny, Natural History, 2.9. 

809

 Fred Espenak, Five Millennium Catalog of Solar Eclipses, NASA/GSFC,  

. Here the time is given as 10:30 Universal 

Time (GMT), which would be 11:30 hours local standard time in Rome.  

810

 Pliny,  Natural History, 2.23. The same comet is also mentioned by numerous other ancient writers. See 

Kronk, Cometography, p. 22, for a listing. 

811

 Kronk, Cometography, p. 21 23. 

812

 RedShift 3 astronomy software. Verification of the accuracy of this software is shown by comparison with 

data from NASA/GSFC Sun Earth Connection Education Forum,  NASA/GSFC,  

. See chapter 17 for details. 

813

 Pliny, Natural History, 2.23. 

814

 Kronk, Cometography, p. 23. 

815

 Kronk, Cometography, p. 22 23. 

816

 RedShift 3 astronomy software. 

817

 Kronk, Cometography, p. 22. 

818

 Kronk, Cometography, p. 22. 

819

 Kronk, Cometography, p. 21. 

820

 RedShift 3 astronomy software. 

821

 RedShift 3 astronomy software. 

822

 Kronk, Cometography, p. 21 24. The next earliest comet is placed in 61 

B.C.

, and the next latest comet is 

placed in 32 

B.C.

823

 Josephus, The Antiquities of the Jews, 18.32. 

824

 Dio, Roman History, Volume VII, Loeb Classical Library, 56.30.5. See also: Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars, 

Loeb Classical Library, 2.100.1. 

825

 Josephus, The Antiquities of the Jews, 14.271   305; The Wars of the Jews, 1.218 242. 

826

 Josephus, The Antiquities of the Jews, 14.271. 

827

 Dio, Roman History, Volume VII, Loeb Classical Library, 56.30.5. 

828

 Dio,  Roman History, Volume VI, Loeb Classical Library, 51.1.1 2. Here Dio specifically states that 

Augustus' reign as sole ruler began on Sept. 2. 

829

 Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars, Loeb Classical Library, 2.8.3. 

830

 Josephus, The Antiquities of the Jews, 15.109, 121. 

831

 Josephus, The Antiquities of the Jews, 14.487. 

832

 Josephus, The Antiquities of the Jews, 15.121. 

833

 Dio, Roman History, Volume VII, Loeb Classical Library, 56.29.3. 

834

 Data on solar eclipses from RedShift 3 software and Fred Espenak, Five Millennium Catalog of Solar Eclipses, 

NASA/GSFC, .  RedShift 3 software can be 

used to visualize the locations on the surface of the earth covered by the shadow of the moon during any solar 

eclipse. During these years, 

A.D.

 11 to 

A.D.

 14, no solar eclipse was visible, even as a partial eclipse, from 

anywhere in the Roman Empire. 

835

 Solar eclipse on June 30 of 

A.D.

 10 at 11:19 hours (time of greatest eclipse). Fred Espenak, Five Millennium 

Catalog of Solar Eclipses, NASA/GSFC, . 

RedShift 3 software shows that this eclipse was visible at a partial solar eclipse from Italy and most of Europe. 

836

 Dio, Roman History, Volume VII, Loeb Classical Library, book 56.29.3. 

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