Meton

, an astrologer and mathematician of Athens. His father’s name was Pausanias. He refused to go to Sicily with his countrymen, and pretended to be insane, because he foresaw the calamities that attended that expedition. In a book called Enneadecaterides , or the cycle of 19 years, he endeavoured to adjust the course of the sun and the moon, and supported that the solar and lunar years could regularly begin from the same point in the heavens. This is called by the moderns the golden numbers . He flourished B.C. 432. Vitruvius , bk. 1 .— Plutarch , Nicias . A native of Tarentum, who pretended to be intoxicated that he might draw the attention of his countrymen, when he wished to di uade them from making an alliance with king Pyrrhus. Plutarch , Pyrrhus .