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Logic IV 28.Although Idelar admits that it may have been sometime a month earlier and I do not see why it might not possibly have been two months earlier. However only the last of the three 7th days of Thargelion can well be supposed to be within the 88th Olypiad. But if Plate were really born at another time even later in the same month the second date might answer this requirement. The [Athenian?] [ovohonship?] was supposed to change at the summer solstice which was June 18th or June 19th. But this was a very inconvenient time to change magistrates and [Poly?] gives instances at which the Archons themselves arranged a different date. Down to the summer solstice of 429 BC. Apollodorus was archon and the statements that Apollodorus had given the date for Plato's birth might cause a careless chronicler to state that he was born inthe archonship of Apollodorus or vice