Indian Epigraphy c15.t12.3

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³ In ancient Greece, the period of 4 years between two consecutive Olympic games was called an Olympiad and was the basis of calculation of time. About 264 B.C., Timaeus of Sicily calculated the first Olympic game to have been played in 776 B.C. and since then the Olympiad reckoning gradually obtained the nature of a sort of era. There was at first no definitely accepted date for the foundation of Rome though it was generally placed about the middle of the 8th century B.C. Fabius Pictor (220 B.C.) placed the date in 747 B.C., Polybius (204-122 B.C.) in 750 B.C., Porcius Cato (234-149 B.C.) in 751 B.C., Varrius Flaccus in 752 B.C. and Terentius Varro (116-28 B.C.) in 753 B.C.