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great year

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great year [¦grāt ′yir]
(astronomy)
The period of one complete cycle of the equinoxes around the ecliptic, about 25,800 years. Also known as platonic year.
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Thou teachest that there is a great year of Becoming, a prodigy of a great year; it must, like a sand-glass, ever turn up anew, that it may anew run down and run out:--
Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None by Nietzsche, Friedrich View in context
It may be, Plato's great year, if the world should last so long, would have some effect; not in renewing the state of like individuals (for that is the fume of those, that conceive the celestial bodies have more accurate influences upon these things below, than indeed they have), but in gross.
The Essays by Bacon, Sir Francis View in context
 
 
 
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