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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—M

Metonic Cycle

(The). A cycle of nineteen years, at the end of which period the new moons fall on the same days of the year, and eclipses recur. Discovered by Meton, B.C. 432.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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