Article. Alan K. Brown. Bede, a Hisperic Etymology, and Early Sea Poetry. 1975.
Bede, a Hisperic Etymology, and Early Sea Poetry. Alan K. Brown. THE fourth chapter of Bede’s major calendrical treatise has a passage which escapes rather startlingly from its context of basic definitions of duodecimal fractions: Si in quattuor [partiri vis], quarta pars quadrantis nomen, residuae tres dodrantis accipiunt. Et huius…