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| | Solar eclipse |
 | | An annular eclipse of the Sun occurred at Sardis on February 17, 478 BC, while Xerxes was departing for his expedition against Greece, as Herodotus, VII, 37 recorded. |
 | | ([Hind and Chambers, 1889: 323] considered this absolute date more than a century ago.) Herodotus (book IX, 10, book VIII, 131, and book IX, 1) reports that another solar eclipse was observed in Sparta during the next year, on August 1, 477 BC. |
 | | Its beginning took place at 6:49, its middle at 7:47 and its end at 8:51.) He was born on the 21st day of the month of Thoth. |
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