JULIUS CAESAR’S INVASION OF BRITAIN
Sir, —Your correspondent Bernard Brown is the victim of a tempting fallacy: the two-thousandth anniversary of Caesar’s invasion will be next year (1946). For the “Year 0” does not exist, so that 1 A.D. immediately follows 1 B.C. in our reckoning. Thus, if 1 B.C. was the fifty-fourth anniversary, 1 A.D. was the fifty-fifth, and 46 A.D. the hundredth. I may mention that the late Italian Government made the same mistake, when in 1930 it celebrated the two-thousandth anniversary of Virgil’s birth (70 8.C.). The viewpoint of an amused world was on that occasion well expressed by the editor of “The Times,’’ London, in an adapted quotation from Virgil: “Italian non sponte sequimur" (“We follow Italy, not by our own free will”). —Yourtf, etc.,
August 22. 1945.
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Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24653, 24 August 1945, Page 6
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