BOOK XVIII. Lxxvii. 336-339 



should pasture their flocks exposed to this wind, so 

 that it may thus fecundate the sire when coupling. 

 The African wind, the Greek name for which is Libs, 

 ^vill blow from the south-west, directly opposite to 

 Aquilo ; when animals after coupling turn towards 

 this quarter, you may be sure that they have got 

 females. 



The third" Une from the north, which we ha\e oiher winus 

 drawn transversely to the shadow and have called the 

 decuman, will have the sunrise at the equinoxes and 

 the Subsolanus wind, called by the Greeks ApheHotes. 

 This is the proper aspect for farm-houses and vine- 

 yards in healthy locahties. This wind itself brings 

 gentle rains ; still Favonius, the wind in the opposite 

 quarter. blowing from the equinoctial sunset, the 

 Greek name for which is Zephyrus, is gentler and 

 drier. This is the direction in which Cato recom- r.r. vi. 2. 

 mended that olive-yards should face ; this wind 

 inaugurates the spring, and opens up the land, having 

 a healthy toueh of cold, and it will give the right 

 time for pruning vines, tending crops, planting trees, 

 grafting fruit-trees and treating ohves ; and its 

 breeze will have a nutritive effect. The fourth line 

 from the north, \ving nearest the south on the eastern 

 side, will have the sunrise at midwinter and the wind 

 Voltxirnus, the Greek name for which is Eurus, which 

 itself also is rather dry and warm ; this is the proper 

 aspect for beehives and for vineyards in Italy, and the 

 provinces of Gaul. Directly opposite to Volturnus 

 will blow Corus, from the point of sunset at mid- 

 summer, on the sunset side of north, its Greek name 

 being Argestes ; it also is one of the coldest winds, 

 as are all those blowing from the north ; it also brings 

 hailstorms. and is quite as much to be avoided as the 



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