Cliap. 66.] THE YE11NAL EQUINOX. 87 



fore the calends of April. Between the equinox and the 

 morning rising of the Vergiliae, the calends 84 of April announce, 

 according to Caesar, [stormy weather]. 84 Upon the third b6 

 before the nones of April, the Yergiliae set in the evening 

 in Attica, and the day after in Bceotia, but according to Caesar 

 and the Chaldaeans, upon the nones. 87 In Egypt, at this time, 

 Orion and his Sword begin to set. According to Caesar, the 

 setting of Libra on the sixth before w the ides of April an- 

 nounces rain. On the fourteenth before 89 the calends of May, 

 the Suculae set to the people of Egypt in the evening, a stormy 

 constellation, and significant of tempests both by land and sea. 

 This constellation sets on the sixteenth 90 in Attica, and on the 

 fifteenth, according to Caesar, announcing four days of bad 

 weather in succession : in Assyria it sets upon the twelfth 91 

 before the calends of May. This constellation has ordinarily the 

 name of Parilicium, from the circumstance that the eleventh 92 

 before the calends of May is observed as the natal day of the 

 City of Eome ; upon this day, too, fine weather generally re- 

 turns, and gives us a clear sky for our observations. The 

 Greeks call the Suculae by the name of " Hyades," 93 in conse- 

 quence of the rain and clouds which they bring with them ; 

 while our people, misled by the resemblance of the Greek name 

 to another word 94 of theirs, meaning a "pig," have imagined 

 that the constellation receives its name from that word, and 

 have consequently given it, in their ignorance, the name of 

 "Suculae," or the "Little Pigs." 



In the calculations made by Caesar, the eighth 96 before the 

 calends of May is a day remarked, and on the seventh 96 before 

 the calends, the constellation of the Kids rises in Egypt. On 

 the sixth before 97 the calends, the Dog sets in the evening in 

 Bceotia and Attica, and the Lyre rises in the morning. On 

 the fifth 98 before the calends of May, Orion has wholly set 



84 First of April. 



85 This passage is omitted in the original, but was probably left out by 

 inadvertence. 



86 Third of April. 87 Fifth of April. 



88 Eighth of April. 89 Eighteenth of Apr 1. 



90 Sixteenth of April. 91 Twentieth of Apr.l. 



9 - Twenty-first of April. See B. xix. e. 24. 



93 From vav, to rain. 94 " Sus," a pig. 



95 Twenty-fourth of April. 96 Twenty-fifth of April. 



97 Twenty-sixth of April. 98 Twenty-seventh of April. 



