CHAP. 10. 2. SUPERSTITIONS, &c. 315 



tion of the gods, we descend to that of their 

 weapons, and so from Jove to his thunderbolts ; 

 for of this terrific instrument I have no doubt 

 but that we shall find a philosophical, and an 

 easy explanation in the Meteorolites of modern 

 meteorologists. These supposed Lunar Stones, 

 as they have been fancifully called, from their 



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Aral. Dios. 10. 

 Virgil observes : 



" Nee frustra signorum obitus speculamur et ortus, 

 Temporibusque parein diuersis quatuor annum." 



Virg. Gear. i. 258. 

 Ovid speaks of the 



" Oleriiae signum pluviale Capellae." Fasti, v. 113. 

 And many other similar passages might be quoted. 



