108 pltxt's natural HISTOET. [Book XYIII.. 



looked upon as the sign of the rising of Arcturus ; for if over- 

 taken by it, they are sure to perish. 



On the sixteenth day before ^^ the calends of October, the* 

 Ear of Corn, which Virgo holds, rises to the people of Egypt ini 

 the morning, and by this daj^ the Etesian winds have quite» 

 ceased to blow. According to Caesar, this constellation rises om 

 the fourteenth ^ before the calends, and it affords its prognostics 

 to the Assyrians on the thirteenth. On the eleventh before ^^' 

 the calends of October, the point of junction ^^ in Pisces disap- 

 pears, and upon the eighth -^ is the autumnal equinox. It is 

 a remarkable fact, and rarely the case, that Philippus, Callip- 

 pus, Dositheus, Parmeniscus, Conon,^'' Criton, Democritus, and 

 Eudoxus, all agree that the She-Goat rises in the morning of 

 the fourth before ^° the calends of October, and on the third ^^ 

 the Kids. On the sixth day before ^- the nones of October, the 

 Crown rises in the morning to the people of Attica, and upon* 

 the morning of the fifth, ^^ the Charioteer sets. On the fourtb 

 before ^"* the nones of October, the Crown, according to Caesar's 

 reckoning, begins to rise, and on the evening of the day after 

 is the setting of the constellation of the Kids. On the eighth 

 before ^^ the ides of October, according to Caesar, the bright 

 star rises that shines in the Crown, and on the evening of the 

 sixth before ^^ the ides the Yergiliae, rise. Upon the ides^' of 

 October, the Crown has wholly risen. On the seventeenth be- 

 fore^'* the calends of November, the Suculse rise in the evening, 

 and on the day before the calends, according to Caesar's reckon- 

 ing, Arcturus sets, and the Suculos^^ rise with the sun. In the 

 evening of the fourth daj^ before ^^ the nones of I^ovember, 

 Arcturus sets. On the fifth before ^^ the ides of November, 

 Orion's Sword begins to set; and on the third *^ before the 

 ides the Vergiliae set. . 



2^ Sixteenth of September. 25 Eighteenth of September. 



2^ Twenty-first of September 27 Commissura. 



*^ Twenty-fourth of September. 



'^'■^ Mentioned by Virgil, Eccl. iii. 1. 38, and by Propertius, Eleg, iv. 1. 



'0 Twenty-eighth of September. si Twentj'-ninth of September. 



=^2 Second of October. ^^ Third of October. 



^ Fourth of October. 's Eighth of October. 



as Tenth of October. '" Fifteenth of October. 



38 Sixteenth of October. 39 Or Ilyudes, see C. 66. 



♦0 Second of November, *i Ninth of November. 



*2 Eleventh of November. 



