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AERA. - Era, or Epoch, is the point of commencement, from which years are reckoned, as taken from the date of some memmorable event. Thus in Christendom, especially Christian Europe, we compute the number of years, from the era of Our Lord's incarnation. The different cities and peoples af antiquity by whom the Greek language was used, began the year from the season of autumn, namely, about the autumnal equinox, or from the calends of September - although, after the correction of the calendar

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Aera


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AERA. - Era, or Epoch, is the point of commencement, from which years are reckoned, as taken from the date of some memmorable event. Thus in Christendom, especially Christian Europe, we compute the number of years, from the era of Our Lord's incarnation. The different cities and peoples af antiquity by whom the Greek language was used, began the year from the season of autumn, namely, about the autumnal equinox, or from the calends of September - although, after the correction of the calendar

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