Comets Are a Coalescence of the Planets

Some of the fixed stars too get a tail. All comets that have been seen in our day have vanished without setting, gradually feeding away above the horizon and they have not left behind them either one or more stars. For instance, the great comet we mentioned before appeared to the west in winter in frosty weather when the sky was clear in the archonship of Esteyos. On the first knee it set before the sun and was then not seen. The next day it was seen being ever so little behind the sun and immediately setting. But its light extended over a third part of the sky, like a leap, so that people called it a path. This comet receded as