phenomenon

Day

Cosmos

The light half of the civil day, or a full day-night cycle in ordinary speech. Not sun itself, and not noon alone.

Roman religion

  • Day appears in Roman religion.

    Pliny’s Natural History treats day among the divisions of civil and natural time. A named day span in that encyclopedia, not sun as the lamp body and not noon as a clock point alone.

    from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE

    appears in · sourced · documented

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