sosigenes in A Sentence

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    Sosigenes, the library.- What are you saying?

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    Sosigenes. You must think it odd that I propose

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    Most learned Sosigenes, forgive me… but this is Tarsus, not Alexandria.

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    Sosigenes. You must think it odd that I propose an invitation to Queen Cleopatra.

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    It was Sosigenes who proposed the idea of leap years and leap days.

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    Sosigenes felt the logical solution was to simply add a day to February, the shortest of the Roman months, every fourth year.

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    Sosigenes informed Caesar that the actual length of the solar year is 365 days and six hours, as the Egyptian priests had known.

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    It also did not help that Caesar and Sosigenes failed to calculate the correct value for the solar year as 365.242199 days, not 365.25 days.

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    With the help of Sosigenes, a renowned astronomer from Alexandria, Julius Caesar helped develop a new calendar in 46 BCE, based on the Roman's calendar.

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    The reason for the latter was that Caesar and Sosigenes failed to calculate the correct value for the solar year as 365.242199 days, not 365.25 days.

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    With the help of Sosigenes, a renowned astronomer from Alexandria, Julius Caesar started a new calendar on January 1, 45 B.C.- a calendar that came closer to the solar year than any of its predecessors and became known as the“Julian Calendar”.

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    So, with the help of Sosigenes, a renowned astronomer from Alexandria, Julius Caesar started a new calendar on January 1, 45 B.C.- a calendar that came closer to the solar year than any of its predecessors and became known as the“Julian Calendar”.

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