[Footnote 79: Pliny (Hist. Nat. ii. 23) has transcribed the
original memorial of Augustus. Mairan, in his most
ingenious letters to the P. Parennin, missionary in China,
removes the games and the comet of September, from the year
44 to the year 43, before the Christian aera; but I am not
totally subdued by the criticism of the astronomer,
(Opuscules, p. 275 )]