in Matters of Literature, an error with respect to chronology, whereby an event is placed earlier than it really happened.—The word is compounded of ἀνα, "higher," and χρόνος, "time." Such is that of Virgil, who placed Dido in Africa at the time of Æneas, though in reality she did not come there till 300 years after the taking of Troy.—An error on the other side, whereby a fact is placed later and lower than it should be, is called a paracronism.