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| | Sosigenes |
 | | The Egyptians, a cheerful and pragmatic people, are the oldest of the civilisations, and he is heir to their accumulated knowledge. |
 | | Whatever pertains to measurement and span, on the earth or in the heavens: astrologer, architect, intelligencer, technocrat, inventor of artillery pieces, doctor and apothecary (since bodies and elements have their scales and harmonies), philosopher... |
 | | In another universe and in 46BC, Sosigenes revealed to Caesar, an amateur astronomer himself, the pattern of the Sothic Calendar, along with the notion of a Leap Year which the Egyptians, despite the command of Ptolemy III of 238BC, had never adopted. |
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