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Wliich I render thus : “ Negledl none of thefe prog- 
noftics [none, he means,, of the great variety he hath 
“ enumerated, taken from the heavens, from animals, 
plants, terreftrial objedis. Sec,], it is a good thing to com- 
“ bine the obfervation of one prognoftic with another. If 
“ two agree, there is the greater likelihood of the event, 
and a third makes it certain. Whatever you dq, regiher 
“ the prognoftics of the current year, care- 
‘‘ fully noting what the prognoftic fays [orTroTov 
^ "Kiyoi ; that is, what the event fliew it to be a ftgn of], 
if fuch a fort of morning comes on with the rife or 
fetting of any particular ftar. And it will be of the 
(t) Such a fort of morning. Tliat is, a morning marked wkh fuch or fuch 
appearances. So I underftand -roin ijus. The fpirit of the precept feeins to be, 
that. the heliacal rilings of the ftars are to be attended to, in conjunftion with 
the particular appearances..attending the dawn or fun-rife. The heliacal tilings 
Ihew the feafon, or general conftitution of the time of the year ; the particular 
appearances of the morning indicate the minute circumftances of the weatheir 
for two or three days to. come. Thus the heliacal rifing of Arfturus was.a lign, 
■in all the ancient parapegms, tliat the ftormy feafon was at hand, and bad weather 
of various forts, rain, thunder, high wind, was to be expe£bed ; but what the par- 
ticular weather would be for a day or two to come, whether it would be only 
windy, or wet, with thunder or without, from what quarter the bad weather 
would come, ^11 this would be pre-dignifted by the particular appearances of the 
morning. Perhaps the fanie appearance may be fubjeft to fome variety of in- 
terpretation at different feafons of the year, and in different places. In this, ex- 
perience and obfervation will be the only fure guides. And for this reafon 
AR ATUs advifes his fcholar, not only to attend to the general rules laid down fpc 
him, but to keep a journal for himfelf, and make his own conclufions. 
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