Sundial Rain dialA character in a play by Plautus, written over 2,000 years ago, curses the man who invented hours:"May the gods destroy the man who first discovered hours and set up a sundial here, who cut my day into pieces!"He goes on to say that when he was a boy, his stomach was his only clock. Now he cannot eat until the sun allows it.By the way the first sundial in Rome was brought from Sicily as war booty in 263 BC. It had been made for a different city, so it showed the wrong time for almost 100 years.Did you know? 🎓
Sundial Rain dialA character in a play by Plautus, written over 2,000 years ago, curses the man who invented hours:"May the gods destroy the man who first discovered hours and set up a sundial here, who cut my day into pieces!"He goes on to say that when he was a boy, his stomach was his only clock. Now he cannot eat until the sun allows it.By the way the first sundial in Rome was brought from Sicily as war booty in 263 BC. It had been made for a different city, so it showed the wrong time for almost 100 years.Did you know? 🎓
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