940

 Kronk, Cometography, p. 31. 

941

 Kronk, Cometography, p. 31 32. 

942

 Kronk, Cometography, p. 28. 

943

 Tacitus, The Annals, Loeb Classical Library, 15.47. See also: Tacitus, The Annals of Imperial Rome, Penguin 

Books, p. 367. 

944

 Tacitus, The Annals of Imperial Rome, Penguin Books, p. 367. See also: Tacitus, The Annals, Loeb Classical 

Library, 15.47. 

945

 Tacitus, The Annals of Imperial Rome, p. 367; Tacitus, The Annals, Loeb Classical Library, 15.47. See also: 

Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars, Loeb Classical Library, 6.36. 

946

 Kronk, Cometography, p. 33. 

947

 Kronk, Cometography, p. 34. 

948

 Kronk, Cometography, p. 28, 33. 

949

 Kronk, Cometography, p. 27 28. 

950

 Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars, Loeb Classical Library, 6.36. 

951

 Tacitus, The Annals of Imperial Rome, p. 367; Tacitus, The Annals, Loeb Classical Library, 15.47. 

952

 Tacitus, The Annals of Imperial Rome, p. 367; Tacitus, The Annals, Loeb Classical Library, 15.47. 

953

 Pliny, Natural History, 2.23. 

954

 Dio, Roman History, Volume VIII, Loeb Classical Library, 64.8.1. 

955

 Kronk, Cometography, p. 28 30. Note that Kronk states the comet was seen from June 9 to July 9, and that 

the full moons of those months were June 8 and July 8. Because these dates nearly coincide with the dates for 

consecutive full moons, the dates of June 9 to July 9 are more likely a time frame within which the comet was 

seen, rather than the exact beginning and endpoints of observation. The ancient Chinese astronomers would 

sometimes give a time frame related to phases of the moon within which a comet was seen, rather than exact 

beginning and endpoints of observation (e.g. Kronk, Cometography, p. 27, comets dated 

A.D.

 13 and 

A.D.

 22). 

This was particularly the case with comets observed over the course of less than one month. 

956

 Kronk, Cometography, p. 34 35. 

957

 Dio, Roman History, Volume VIII, Loeb Classical Library, 66.17.3. 

958

 Dio, Roman History, Volume VIII, Loeb Classical Library, 66.17.2. 

959

 Kronk, Cometography, p. 33. 

960

 Kronk, Cometography, p. 33 35. 

961

 Kronk, Cometography, p. 36 37. 

962

 Pliny, Natural History, 2.10. 

963

 Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars, p. 292. See also: Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars, Loeb Classical Library, Book 

VIII, Titus, 1.1. 

964

 Finegan, Handbook of Biblical Chronology, revised edition, no. 179, table 40, p. 85. 

965

 Lunar and solar eclipse data from RedShift 3 astronomy software, and from the NASA web site:  

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

.  

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

. 

966

 Lunar and solar eclipse data from RedShift 3 astronomy software, and from the NASA web site:  

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

.  

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

. 

967

 Pliny, Natural History, books I   II, ed. G. P. Goold, trans. H. Rackham, Pliny, Volume I, Loeb Classical 

Library, (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1991), p. vii. 

968

 Pliny, Natural History, 2.22. 

969

 Kronk, Cometography, p. 36. 

970

 Kronk, Cometography, p. 31. 

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