Sara wrote By the third century BC there were so many of them that people complain about having to run their lives by these blasted timepieces.
I guess this is her source.... Titus Maccius Plautus 254 - 184 BC - a influential Roman playwright of comedies - is quoted, in 'Attic Nights' by Aulus Gellius ca 125 - after 180 BC, as saying….. The Gods damn the man who first discovered the hours and - yes - set up a sundial here which has smashed the day into bits.When I was a boy, my stomach was the only sundial, by far the best and truest compared to these: it used to warn me when to eat. I have the same complaint these days - but it is about iPhones, TV, computers Best regards Kevin
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