[Windflier]

BTW, in the period when the machine was built the Romans (and their satrapies) did not yet use a leap year in their calender, and unless you account for the 1/4 year drift each year you end up with your calendar out of synch.

See post 90. The ancients were fully aware of that "drift", and had several methods of compensating for it.

[muawiyah]

But not the Romans ~ they knew about it but did nothing systematic to fix the problem. The machine was built under the period when the Romans OWNED Greece ~ so I doubt the Greeks were able to do much about changing Roman attitudes.