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that are three places apart in their traditional listing.Plutarch apparently discussed this in a treatise written in c. 100 AD, which is reported to have addressed the question Why are the days named after the planets reckoned in a different order from the actual order? (the text of the treatise has been lost). Dio Cassius (early 3rd century) gives two explanations in a section of his Historia Romana after mentioning the Jewish practice of sanctifying the day called the day

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