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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) 7 7 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 2 2 Browse Search
Demosthenes, Speeches 51-61 1 1 Browse Search
Isocrates, Speeches (ed. George Norlin) 1 1 Browse Search
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t would discharge a quantity equal to its capacity in half the time it would empty itself unrenewed. Athenaeus, a distinguished Greek writer of the third century, A. D., a native of Egypt, in the course of his table-talk mentions that Plato (372 B. C.) had constructed a clepsydra or waterdial which played upon pipes the hours of the night, at a time when they could not be seen on the index. Vitruvius dates the invention something over 100 years later, attributes it to Ctesibus of Alexandrr-glasses were not then known in England, though they are regarded as very ancient, and were certainly known in Rome long previously. The first striking or audible notification of the hour, on record, is the clepsydra or water-dial of Plato, 372 B. C., which, by the agency of water, sounded upon organ-pipes the hour of the night when the index could not be seen. The contrivance is mentioned by Athenaeus of Egypt, a distinguished Greek writer of the third century, and author of the Deipnosop