{"slug":"khazarzar-joannes-lydus-laurentius-de-ostentis","id":"greek:khazarzar:khazarzar-joannes-lydus-laurentius-de-ostentis","title":"De ostentis","title_source":"De ostentis","author":"Joannes Lydus Laurentius","genre":"other","date":null,"tradition":"greek","coverage":"not-located","coverage_claim":{"status":"not-located","text":"No English translation could be identified: a language model asked twice could not name one, though it could not rule one out either. That is not proof that none exists — translations in dissertations, recent books and other modern languages are easily missed."},"publication":{"status":"machine-draft","reviewed_by":null,"model":"deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash:floor","provider":"Baidu","generated":"2026-11-15T17:50:57Z","cost_usd":0.012802},"source":{"registry_id":"greek:khazarzar:khazarzar-joannes-lydus-laurentius-de-ostentis","work_id":"khazarzar-joannes-lydus-laurentius-de-ostentis","edition":"khazarzar","language":"","license":null,"url":null},"stats":{"passages":101,"english_words":29687,"coptic_letters":0,"source_letters":110424,"commentary_units":0,"commentary_kinds":0,"derived_notes":0,"ambiguities":0,"work_notes":0,"external_links":0,"timeline":0},"summary":{},"links":[],"checks":{"work":"khazarzar-joannes-lydus-laurentius-de-ostentis","status":"pass","blocking":[],"warnings":[],"stats":{"passages":101,"translated":101,"commentary_passages":0,"commentary_units":0,"english_words":29687,"source_letters":109369,"commentary_kinds":0},"model":"deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash:floor"},"work_notes":[],"derived_work_notes":[{"kind":"coverage","severity":"info","text":"No English translation could be identified: a language model asked twice could not name one, though it could not rule one out either. That is not proof that none exists — translations in dissertations, recent books and other modern languages are easily missed."},{"kind":"limit","severity":"caution","text":"The English is a machine draft produced passage by passage from the transcribed Greek; no human has verified it. The commentary is model-written and cites only keys the pipeline could resolve."},{"kind":"register","severity":"info","text":"Register: other in ancient Greek; the English keeps the liturgical formulae and the vocatives rather than normalising them."},{"kind":"structure","severity":"info","text":"Passages: 101 narrative."},{"kind":"source","severity":"info","text":"Source edition: khazarzar."}],"derived_structure":{"narrative":101},"term_index":[],"citations":{},"segments":[{"i":1,"ref":"p1","source":"ΙΩΑΝΝΟΥ ΛΑΥΡΕΝΤΙΟΥ ΛΥΔΟΥ ΠΕΡΙ ΔΙΟΣΗΜΕΙΩΝ Οἱ τῶν Ἑβραίων λόγιοι τὸν περὶ προγνώσεως λόγον διχῆ τέμνουσιν εἰς σημεῖα καὶ τέρατα· καὶ σημεῖα μὲν εἶναι βούλονται τὰ ἐν μετεώροις συνιστάμενα, τέρατα δὲ τὰ ἐπὶ γῆς ὡς παρὰ φύσιν φαινόμενα, ὁποῖον ἐκεῖνο τὸ ἐπὶ τῆς καλουμένης τῶν Ἑβραίων ἐξόδου ἀναφερόμενον περὶ Μωϋσέως αὐτοῦ· «καὶ εἶδεν ὅτι ἡ βάτος καίεται, ἡ δὲ βάτος οὐ κατεκαίετο» ̣ ̣, καὶ πάλιν· «ἔρριψε Μωϋσῆς τὴν ῥάβδον ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν καὶ ἐγένετο ὄφις» ̣ ̣, καὶ πάλιν· «εἰσήνεγκε Μωϋσῆς τὴν χεῖρα εἰς τὸν κόλπον αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐγένετο ἡ χεὶρ αὐτοῦ ὡσεὶ χιών» ̣ ̣, εἶτα αὖθις· «καὶ εἶπεν ὁ θεὸς πρὸς Μωϋσῆν· λήψῃ ἀπὸ τοῦ ὕδατος τοῦ ποταμοῦ ἐπὶ τὸ ξηρὸν καὶ ἔσται αἷμα» ̣ ̣· εἶτα ὑποβάς· «καὶ εἶπε κύριος πρὸς Μωϋσῆν· ἐὰν λαλήσῃ Φαραὼ πρὸς ὑμᾶς λέγων \"δότε σημεῖον ἢ τέρας\", λάβε τὴν ῥάβδον σου καὶ ῥῖψον ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς καὶ ἔσται δράκων» ̣ 7, 8. 9̣. καὶ οὐ ταῦτα μόνον, ἀλλ' ἔτι τέρας ἄλλο φοβερώτερον ἡ τοῦ παντὸς Αἰγυπτίου ὕδατος εἰς λύθρον μεταβολὴ ̣ ̣ καὶ τῶν βατράχων τὸ πλῆθος ̣ ̣ καὶ οἱ λεγόμενοι σκνῖπες καὶ οἱ μύωπες, οὓς αὐτοὶ καλοῦσι κυνομυίας ̣ ̣, καὶ ἡ τῶν κτηνῶν φθορὰ ̣ ̣ καὶ ὁ κονιορτὸς ὁ ἑλκώδης, φλυκταῖναι καὶ ἀκρίδες· ταῦτα πάντα τέρατα ἂν δικαίως λέγοιντο· σημεῖα δὲ τὰ ἐξ ὑπερτέρων φαινόμενα, οἷον ἐκεῖνο ὃ ἐπὶ τῆς αὐτῆς φέρεται γραφῆς· «καὶ ἔβρεξε κύριος τὴν χάλαζαν ἐπὶ πᾶσαν τὴν γῆν Αἰγύπτου· ἦν δὴ ἡ χάλαζα καὶ τὸ πῦρ φλογίζον ἐν τῇ χαλάζῃ» ̣ ̣, καὶ πάλιν· «ἐξέτεινε δὲ Μωϋσῆς τὴν χεῖρα αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ τὸν οὐρανὸν καὶ ἐγένετο σκότος, γνόφος καὶ θύελλα ἐπὶ πᾶσαν τὴν γῆν Αἰγύπτου» ̣ ̣.","english":"IOANNES LAURENTIOS LYDOS ON PORTENTS. The learned men of the Hebrews divide the doctrine of foreknowledge in two, into signs and wonders; and they wish signs to be the things that occur in the heavens, but wonders the things that appear on earth contrary to nature, such as that which is recorded in what is called the Exodus of the Hebrews concerning Moses himself: \"And he saw that the bush was burning, but the bush was not consumed\"; and again: \"Moses threw the rod upon the ground and it became a serpent\"; and again: \"Moses put his hand into his bosom and his hand became as snow\"; then again: \"And God said to Moses: You shall take from the water of the river upon the dry land and it shall be blood\"; then he adds: \"And the Lord said to Moses: If Pharaoh speaks to you saying 'Give a sign or a wonder,' take your rod and throw it upon the ground and it shall be a dragon.\" And not these only, but another wonder still more fearful, the change of all the water of Egypt into gore, and the multitude of the frogs, and the so-called sknipes and the myopes, which they themselves call dog-flies, and the destruction of the cattle, and the dust that causes boils, blisters and locusts; all these would justly be called wonders. But signs are the things that appear from above, such as that which is recorded in the same writing: \"And the Lord rained the hail upon all the land of Egypt; the hail was indeed, and the fire flaming within the hail\"; and again: \"And Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven and there came darkness, gloom and storm upon all the land of Egypt.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":2,"ref":"p2","source":"Τοιοῦτος τοίνυν Ἑβραίοις ὁ περὶ σημείων λόγος· ἐξ ὧν, οἶμαι, καὶ τἆλλα τῶν ἐθνῶν διοσημείας ταῦτα καλεῖν ἔγνω τὰ σήματα· Ζεὺς γὰρ ὁ ἀὴρ κατὰ τοὺς φυσικοὺς λέγεται, ὅτι ζωοποιός ἐστιν ὥστε διοσημεία τὸ τοῦ ἀέρος σημεῖον, ὥσπερ εὔδιον τὸ πρᾶον καὶ γαληνὸν τοῦ ἀέρος καλεῖται σχῆμα. οὐ χρὴ οὖν πρὸς τὰ ὀνόματα ταραττομένους τοὺς ἁπλουστέρους ἀποπηδᾷν τοῦ μαθεῖν· «δώσω», γάρ φησι, «σημεῖα ἐν τῷ οὐρανῷ ἄνω καὶ τέρατα ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς κάτω· αἷμα καὶ πῦρ καὶ ἀτμίδα καπνοῦ· ὁ Ἥλιος μεταστραφήσεται εἰς σκότος καὶ ἡ σελήνη εἰς αἷμα ̣ ̣.» τουτὶ πράττειν ἐπαγγειλάμενοι. τῆς μὲν οὖν τῶν πολλῶν δόξης κἀγὼ πρῴην ἐτύγχανον ὤν, καὶ γράμματα μόνα τὰ περὶ τούτων γεγραμμένα τοῖς ἀρχαίοις ἐνόμιζον. ἐπειδὴ δὲ ἡ πεῖρα τὴν περὶ αὐτῶν ἀλήθειαν ἔδειξε καὶ ἡ γενομένη τοῦ κομήτου πρῴην ἐπιτολὴ ἱππέως δὲ ἄρα ἦν τὸ λεγόμενον σχῆμα καὶ ἡ διὰ ταύτην συμβᾶσα τῶν κακοδαιμόνων Περσῶν ἔφοδος, μέχρι μὲν τῶν Ὀρόντου γενομένη μερῶν ̣ ̣, συντομωτάτην δὲ τὴν ὑπο στροφὴν ὡς οἷόν τε λαβοῦσα ἐδήλου γὰρ δὴ καὶ τὴν τοῦ κραταιοτάτου βασιλέως νίκην, ὑπ' αὐτῶν λοιπὸν τῶν πραγμάτων καὶ τῆς ἐξ αὐτῶν μαρτυρίας γράφειν περὶ τῶν τοιούτων προήχθην, ἅμα μὲν πρὸς τῆς ἐμῆς ἔσεσθαι μνήμης τὸ πρᾶγμα νομίζων, ἅμα δὲ ἄτοπον καὶ φθόνου γέμον ἡγούμενος εἶναι τὸ πόνους τοσούτους τοῖς ἀρχαίοις καταβεβλημένους εἰς τοὺς περὶ τούτων λόγους ἄχρι παντὸς μεῖναι λανθάνοντας.","english":"Such, then, is the Hebrews' account of signs; from which, I think, the other nations also came to call these marks \"diosemeiai\" (signs from Zeus); for Zeus is said by the natural philosophers to be the air, because it is life-giving, so that a diosemeia is a sign of the air, just as \"fair weather\" is the name for the mild and calm condition of the air. It is not right, then, that the simpler folk, being disturbed by the names, should shrink back from learning; for he says, \"I will give signs in the heaven above and wonders on the earth below: blood and fire and a vapor of smoke; the Sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood...\" — this being what they promised to do. Now I too was formerly of the opinion of the many, and I supposed that only writings about these things had been written by the ancients. But since experience has shown the truth concerning them, and the recent rising of the comet — and the shape spoken of was, you see, that of a horseman — and the attack of the wretched Persians that came about because of it, reaching as far as the regions of Orontes..., and taking its return as swiftly as possible (for it also signified the victory of the most mighty emperor), I have been led forth, by the facts themselves and the testimony from them, to write about such matters, thinking both that the matter would be to my own remembrance, and at the same time considering it absurd and full of envy that such great labors as the ancients had laid down in their accounts of these things should remain hidden forever.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":3,"ref":"p3","source":"Ἁρμόδιον δὲ εἶναι νομίζω τῷ περὶ τῶν τοιούτων γράφειν ἐθέλοντι, πόθεν τε ἡ τῶν τοιούτων κατάληψις ἤρξατο, λέγειν, καὶ ὅθεν ἔσχε τὰς ἀφορμάς, καὶ ὅπως ἐπὶ τοσοῦτον προῆλθεν, ὡς καὶ αὐτούς, εἰ θέμις\n\nεἰπεῖν, Αἰγυπτίους ὑπερβαλεῖν. τούτων γὰρ δή, μετὰ Ζωροάστρην τὸν πολύν, Πετόσιρις τοῖς εἰδικοῖς τὰ ἐν γένει διαπλέξας πολλὰ μὲν κατ' αὐτὸν παραδοῦναι βιάζεται, οὐ πᾶσι δὲ παραδίδωσι ταῦτα, μόνοις δὲ τοῖς καθ' αὑτόν, μᾶλλον δὲ ὅσοι καὶ αὐτῶν πρὸς στοχασμοὺς ἐπιτηδειότεροι. Ἀντίγονος δὲ μετ' ἐκεῖνον διέκρινε μὲν καὶ διήρθρωσε τὴν παράδοσιν, πρὸς δὲ τὸ πυκνὸν τῶν ἐν τῇ ἀστρονομίᾳ γραμμῶν ἀποκλίνας ἀμύθητον ὄχλον καὶ ἀσαφείας πάσης ἀνάμεστον τῇ γραφῇ συγκατέθετο. τὰ γὰρ Ἀριστοτέλει εἰρημένα γνωριμώτατα. Ἡλιόδωρος δὲ καὶ Ἀσκλατίων, ἔτι καὶ Ὠδαψὸς ὁ Θηβαῖος καὶ ὁ Αἰγιεὺς Πολλῆς καὶ ὁ θειότατος πρὸ αὐτῶν Πτολεμαῖος, οὐ μέχρι παντὸς ἴσχυσαν τὴν παλαιὰν ἀσάφειαν τοῦ πράγματος ἐκβαλεῖν, καίτοι γε σφόδρα καὶ τοῦτο ποιῆσαι σπεύσαντες. ἐπειδὴ δὲ ἡμῖν, τοὺς ἐξ Ἰταλίας φημί, Τάγης ἀρχηγὸς τοῦ πράγματος γέγονεν, ἀκόλουθον τοῖς αὐτοῦ ῥήμασι χρήσασθαι, μᾶλλον δὲ τῇ τούτων ἐννοίᾳ· τοῖς γὰρ ἀρχαιοτέροις ὀνόμασιν ἐκεῖνα συγκείμενα δυσπαρακολούθητά πώς ἐστι καὶ οὐ σφόδρα σαφῆ. χρησόμεθα δὲ καὶ τοῖς λοιποῖς, Τάρχοντί τε τῷ θυοσκόπῳ καὶ Ταρκύτῳ τῷ τελεστῇ καὶ Καπίτωνι ἱερεῖ, ὥστε ἐκ τῶν πᾶσι τούτοις εἰρημένων γλαφυράν τινα διαπλέξαι τοῦ πράγματος ἁρμονίαν. δεῖ τοίνυν ἀφηγήσασθαι πρῶτον τίς τε οὗτος ὁ Τάγης καὶ τίνες οἱ λοιποί, καὶ ὅπως γράμμασιν ἐνεπιστεύθη παρὰ τὸ κρατοῦν ἐν τοῖς ἱεροῖς τὰ τοιαῦτα.","english":"I think it is fitting for one who wishes to write about such matters to state both whence the understanding of such things began, and from what source it took its starting points, and how it advanced so far that it surpassed even the Egyptians themselves, if it is permitted to say so. For after Zoroaster the Great, Petosiris, weaving the specific details into the general classes, forces many things to be handed down in his own person, yet he does not hand these down to all, but only to those of his own time, or rather to those among them who are more suited for conjectures. After him, Antigonus both distinguished and articulated the tradition, but inclining toward the density of the astronomical lines, he set down in his writing a countless multitude full of all obscurity. For the things said by Aristotle are most well known. Heliodorus and Asclation, and further Odapsus the Theban and Polles of Aegium and the most divine Ptolemy before them, were not able to cast out the ancient obscurity of the matter entirely, although they hastened greatly to do this too. But since Tages has been the originator of the matter for us—I mean those from Italy—it is consistent to use his own words, or rather the meaning of these; for those things composed with the more ancient names are somehow difficult to follow and not very clear. We shall also use the rest—Tarchon the diviner by sacrifice, and Tarquitius the initiator, and Capito the priest—so as to weave from what has been said by all these a certain elegant harmony of the matter. It is necessary, then, to narrate first who this Tages is and who the others are, and how such things were entrusted to writing contrary to the prevailing custom in the sacred rites.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":4,"ref":"p4","source":"Τάρχων, ταύτῃ ἔχων τὴν προσηγορίαν, ἀνὴρ γέγονε μὲν θυοσκόπος, ὡς αὐτὸς ἐπὶ τῆς γραφῆς εἰσενήνεκται, εἷς τῶν ὑπὸ Τυρρηνοῦ τοῦ Λυδοῦ διδαχθέντων. καὶ γὰρ δὴ τοῖς Θούσκων γράμμασι ταῦτα δηλοῦται, οὔπω τηνικαῦτα τοῖς τόποις ἐκείνοις Εὐάνδρου τοῦ Ἀρκάδος ἐπιφανέντος. ἦν δὲ ἀλλοῖός τις ὁ τῶν γραμμάτων τύπος, καὶ οὐδὲ ὅλως καθημαξευμένος ἡμῖν· ἦ γὰρ ἂν τῶν ἀπορρήτων τε καὶ ἀναγκαιοτέρων οὐδὲν ἔμεινεν ἄχρι τοῦ παρόντος λανθάνον. φησὶ τοίνυν ὁ Τάρχων ἐπὶ τοῦ συγγράμματος, ὅπερ εἶναί τινες Τάγητος ὑποπτεύουσιν, ἐπειδήπερ ἐκεῖ κατά τινα διαλογικὴν ὁμιλίαν ἐρωτᾷ μὲν δῆθεν ὁ Τάρχων, ἀποκρίνεται δὲ ὁ Τάγης ὡς προσκαρτερῶν ἑκάστοτε τοῖς ἱεροῖς, ὡς τυχὸν συμβέβηκεν αὑτῷ κατά τινα χρόνον ἀροτριῶντι θαυμάσιόν τι, οἷον οὐδὲ ἀκήκοέ τις ἐν τῷ παντὶ χρόνῳ γενόμενον· ἀνεδόθη γὰρ ἐκ τοῦ αὔλακος παιδίον, ἄρτι μὲν τεχθῆναι δοκοῦν, ὀδόντων δὲ καὶ τῶν ἄλλων τῶν ἐν ἡλικίᾳ γνωρισμάτων ἀπροσδεές· ἦν δὲ ἄρα τὸ παιδίον ὁ Τάγης, ὃν δὴ καὶ χθόνιον Ἑρμῆν εἶναι τοῖς Ἕλλησινἔδοξεν, ὥς που καὶ Πρόκλος φησὶν ὁ διάδοχος. τοῦτο δὲ ἀλληγορικῶς παρὰ τὸν ἱερατικὸν παρακεκάλυπται νόμον, ἐπεὶ οὐ προφανῶς ὁ περὶ θειοτέρων πραγμάτων λόγος διὰ τοὺς ἀνιέρους, ἀλλὰ νῦν μὲν μυθικῶς νῦν δὲ παραβολικῶς παραδέδοται· ἀντὶ γὰρ τοῦ εἰπεῖν ψυχὴν τελειοτάτην καὶ τῶν οἰκείων ἐνεργειῶν ἀπροσδεῆ ἐπὶ τὴν ὕλην ἐλθεῖν, βρέφος ἀρτιγενὲς ἐκ τοῦ αὔλακος ἀναδοθῆναί φησι.","english":"Tarchon, bearing this name, was a diviner, as he himself is presented in the writing, one of those taught by Tyrrhenus the Lydian. For these things are made clear in the Tuscan letters, Evander the Arcadian not yet having appeared in those regions at that time. But the style of the letters was of another sort, and not at all familiar to us; for otherwise none of the secret and more essential matters would have remained hidden until the present. Tarchon, then, says in the treatise which some suspect to be by Tages, since there, in a kind of dialogue, Tarchon asks, as it were, and Tages answers as one who constantly attends the sacred rites, that it happened to him once, as he chanced to be plowing, that something wondrous occurred, such as no one had heard of happening in all time; for a child was given up from the furrow, appearing just born, yet without need of teeth or the other marks of age. And the child was Tages, who indeed seemed to the Greeks to be the chthonic Hermes, as Proclus the successor also says somewhere. This is allegorically concealed by the priestly law, since the account concerning more divine matters is not given openly because of the uninitiated, but is handed down now mythically and now parabolically; for instead of saying that a most perfect soul, without need of its own energies, came to matter, he says that a newborn infant was given up from the furrow.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":5,"ref":"p5","source":"Τάρχων δὲ ὁ πρεσβύτερος γέγονε γὰρ δὴ καὶ νεώτερος, ἐπὶ τῶν Αἰνείου στρατευσάμενος χρόνων τὸ παιδίον ἀναλαβὼν καὶ τοῖς ἱεροῖς ἐναποθέμενος τόποις ἠξίου τι παρ' αὐτοῦ τῶν ἀπορρήτων μαθεῖν. τοῦ δὲ αἰτουμένου τυχὼν βιβλίον ἐκ τῶν εἰρημένων συνέγραψεν, ἐν ᾧ πυνθάνεται μὲν ὁ Τάρχων τῇ τῶν Ἰταλῶν ταύτῃ τῇ συνήθει φωνῇ, ἀποκρίνεται δὲ ὁ Τάγης γράμμασιν ἀρχαίοις τε καὶ οὐ σφόδρα γνωρίμοις ἡμῖν γε ἐμμένων τῶν ἀποκρίσεων. πλὴν ἀλλ' ὅσον μοι γέγονε δυνατόν, ἔκ τε τῶν Θούσκων ἔκ τε τῶν ἄλλων ὅσοι τούτους ἡρμήνευσαν, Καπίτωνός τέ φημι καὶ Φοντηίου, καὶ Ἀπουληίου Βικελλίου τε καὶ Λαβεῶνος καὶ Φιγούλου, Πλινίου τε τοῦ φυσικοῦ, πειράσομαι ταῦτα πρὸς ὑμᾶς διελθεῖν. Σπουδὴ δὲ ἡμῖν ἐστὶν εἰπεῖν περί τε ἡλιακῶν καὶ σεληνιακῶν ἐπισκιασμάτων οὕτω γὰρ τὰς ἐκλειπτικὰς τῶν φώτων ὀλισθήσεις ἐκεῖνοι καλοῦσι, κομητῶν τε καὶ τῆς κατ' αὐτοὺς διαφορᾶς, αὐλακισμῶν τε καὶ διᾳττόντων, ἀστραπῶν τε καὶ βροντῶν καὶ κεραυνῶν καὶ τῶν ἄλλων ἀερίων","english":"Tarchon the elder—for there was also, indeed, a younger one—having served in the times of Aeneas, took up the child and placed him in the sacred places, and deemed it worthy to learn something of the secret things from him. And having obtained what he asked, he composed a book from the things said, in which Tarchon inquires in this customary tongue of the Italians, while Tages answers in letters both ancient and not very familiar to us, abiding by his answers. Nevertheless, as far as has been possible for me, from both the Tuscan writers and the others who interpreted them—I mean Capito and Fonteius, and Apuleius, Vicellius, and Labeo, and Figulus, and Pliny the natural philosopher—I shall attempt to set these things before you. Our zeal is to speak about solar and lunar overshadowings—for thus those men call the ecliptic slippings of the lights—and about comets and the difference among them, and about furrowings and shootings, and lightnings and thunders and thunderbolts and the other aerial","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":6,"ref":"p6","source":"τερατισμῶν, καὶ τὸ δὴ πέρας περὶ σεισμῶν καὶ ἐμπρησμῶν καὶ τῆς ἐκ τούτων μαντείας, οὐχ ὥστε τὰς φυσικὰς αἰτίας ἢ τὰ περὶ τούτων εἰπεῖν θεωρήματα φιλοσόφοις γὰρ δὴ τὰ περὶ τούτων ἀνείσθω, ἀλλ' εἴ πως οἷόν τέ ἐστιν ἐκ τούτων δὴ τῶν διοσημειῶν τὴν τῶν ἐσομένων ἴσως προμανθάνειν ἀπόβασιν. ἔστι γὰρ ἐκ τῆς πολυμαθεστάτης ἱστορίας λαβεῖν ὡς ἥλιοί τε πλείους κατὰ ταὐτὸν καὶ σελῆναι πεφήνασι, γινομένου ἐξ ἀνακλάσεως τούτου. τοιγαροῦν οὐχ ὑπὲρ τὸν ἥλιον ἢ τὴν σελήνην, ἀλλ' ἐκ πλαγίου τὴν λεγομένην ἀντιδίσκωσιν θεωρεῖσθαι συμβαίνει, ἢ ἀνισχόντων αὐτῶν ἢ δυομένων. βασιλέων δὲ τοῦτο δυνατῶν κατ' ἀλλήλων ἐπαναστάσεις σημαίνει, ὡς ἐκ τῆς Καμβύσου κατ' Αἰγυπτίων ἐφόδου λαβεῖν ἔστι, καὶ ἐπὶ τῇ Νέρωνος καταστροφῇ, καθ' ἣν ἐπὶ μὲν τῆς Ἰουδαίας διάγων Οὐεσπασιανὸς πρὸς τὴν Ῥωμαίων ἀρχὴν ἀνεφέρετο, κατὰ δὲ τὴν ἑσπέραν Βιτέλλιος, Γάλβας τε καὶ Ὄθων ἑτέρωθεν ἀντανίσταντο. Ἀπουλήιος δὲ περὶ τῶν τοιούτων γράφων καὶ ὑπὸ Κλαυδίῳ Καίσαρι τρεῖς ἡλίους ὀφθῆναί φησιν, ὁμοίως δὲ καὶ σελήνας τοσαύτας ἐπὶ Γαίου Ἀννίου καὶ Γναίου Δομιτίου τῶν ὑπάτων· ᾧ ἄντικρυς ἐδηλοῦτο Γάλλους τε καὶ Σαυρομάτας τὰ Ῥωμαίων δῃώσειν· τὸ δὲ θῆναι. Πολλάκις δὲ καὶ διάπυρος ἀστήρ, ἀσπίδος ἀπομιμούμενος τύπον, ἐκ τῆς ἑῴας ἐπὶ τὴν δύσιν σπινθῆρας ἐκπέμπων διατρέχει, τῶν Παρθυαίων ἔφοδον μαντευόμενος. καὶ τὰ μὲν ἐκ τῶν πρωτοτύπων κέντρων, ἀνατολὴν λέγω καὶ δύσιν. οὕτως ἔστι λαβεῖν· ἀπὸ δέ γε ἄρκτου καὶ μεσημβρίας, οὐκέτι ἐφόδους βαρβαρικὰς ταῦτα ἡμῖν προδηλοῖ, ἀλλὰ βιαιοτέρας ἀνέμων ἐκρήξεις.","english":"of portents, and finally concerning earthquakes and conflagrations and the divination derived from these—not so as to state the natural causes or the theoretical principles about these matters (for these must be left to the philosophers), but to see whether it is possible from these very signs from heaven to foreknow, as it were, the outcome of future events. For it is possible to learn from the most learned history that many suns and as many moons have appeared at the same time, this occurring by reflection. Accordingly, the so-called antidisksis is observed not above the sun or the moon, but obliquely, either when they are rising or when they are setting. This signifies the uprisings of powerful kings against one another, as one may learn from the expedition of Cambyses against the Egyptians, and at the downfall of Nero, during which Vespasian, while residing in Judaea, was being raised to the Roman rule, while in the West Vitellius, and from another quarter Galba and Otho, were rising in opposition. Apuleius, writing about such matters, says that under Claudius Caesar three suns were seen, and likewise as many moons under the consuls Gaius Annius and Gnaeus Domitius; by which it was plainly indicated that the Gauls and Sarmatians would ravage the Roman territories; and the rest. Often, too, a fiery star, imitating the form of a shield, runs from the east to the west, emitting sparks, foretelling the invasion of the Parthians. And these things from the primary centers—I mean the east and the west—can be understood thus; but from the north and the south, these no longer foretell to us barbarian invasions, but rather the more violent outbursts of winds.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":7,"ref":"p7","source":"καὶ εἰ μὲν ἐξ ἄρκτου διᾴττων ἐκτρέχει αὔλακάς τε πυρὸς ἐπὶ τὸν ἀέρα ποιεῖ, βροντώδεις λέγει διοσημείας, συστροφὴν ἀέρος καὶ βορρᾶν βιαιότερον ἀναστήσεσθαι, ἐκ δὲ τοῦ ἐναντίου φερόμενος νότον ἐπάγει. τῶν γὰρ πνευμάτων ἐκ τῶν ἐσχάτων τοῦ κόσμου μερῶν διανισταμένων καὶ τὸν ἀέρα πρῶτον πληττόντων, μηδενὸς σώματος ἀντιτυποῦντος, εἰκός ἐστι τοὺς ἐκ τῶν ἀστέρων τούτων ἀφορίζεσθαι σπινθῆρας. Ὁμοίως ἔστιν ἑτέρους ἀστέρας εὑρεῖν ποτὲ μὲν ἐν γῇ, ποτὲ δὲ ἐν θαλάττῃ τὰς ἰδίας ἐνεργείας δεικνύντας· ἐπί τε γὰρ στρατιωτικῶν ἀκοντίων πολλάκις ὤφθησαν ἐφιζάνοντες ἐπί τε τῶν ἱστῶν τῶν νεῶν, καὶ ἐν ἄλλοις δὲ μέρεσι, λιγυρόν τι σύριγμα προσηχοῦντες καὶ ὀρνέων δίκην εἰς τόπον ἐκ τόπου τῆς νεὼς μεθιστάμενοι, ὡς ἂν καταδύσωσι ταύτην. ὅθεν καὶ τοῖς ξηροτέροις τῆς νεὼς ἐμπίπτουσι μέρεσιν, ἐξ ὧν συντομωτέραν εἰκὸς γενέσθαι τὴν ἐκπύρωσιν. τὸ δὲ τοιοῦτον σχῆμα ἤτοι κατάστημα οἱ τὴν θάλατταν πλέοντες Ἑλένην καλοῦσιν. ἀλλὰ κἀνταῦθα τὰ ἐξ αὑτῆς ἡ πρόνοια δείκνυσι· δύο γὰρ ἀστέρες εὐθὺς κατασκήπτουσι τῆς τοιαύτης φορᾶς, οὓς Κάστορα καὶ Πολυδεύκην καλοῦσιν, οἳ παραχρῆμα πρὸς φυγὴν τὴν λεγομένην Ἑλένην ἐλαύνουσι. Τὰ δὲ τῶν ἱστοριῶν μὴ καὶ περιττὸν ἐν ὑμῖν ᾖ λέγειν, ὡς ἐπὶ κεφαλῆς πολλάκις ἀνθρώπων διοσημεῖαι γεγόνασιν, ἐπί τε τῆς Ἀσκανίου καὶ Σερβίου Τύλλου τοῦ ῥηγὸς καὶ Κωνσταντίνου τοῦ τὴν μεγάλην ταύτην συστησαμένου πόλιν.","english":"And if, darting from the north, it runs out and makes furrows of fire in the air, he calls these thunder-like signs, [saying] that a gathering of the air and a more violent north wind will arise, while, borne from the opposite direction, it brings on the south wind. For since the winds rise from the outermost parts of the cosmos and strike the air first, with no body resisting them, it is reasonable that the sparks be separated off from these stars. In like manner one may find other stars displaying their own activities sometimes on land, sometimes on the sea; for they have often been seen settling on soldiers' spears and on the masts of ships, and in other places too, emitting a shrill whistling sound and moving from place to place about the ship like birds, so that they might sink it. Hence they also fall upon the drier parts of the ship, from which the conflagration is likely to be more quickly kindled. This shape or condition those who sail the sea call Helen. But even here Providence shows what comes from itself; for two stars immediately swoop down from such a course, which they call Castor and Polydeuces, and these at once drive the so-called Helen to flight. As for the accounts of the histories, is it not superfluous to speak of them before you—how signs have often occurred upon the heads of men, in the case of Ascanius and of Servius Tullus the king and of Constantine who founded this great city.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":8,"ref":"p8","source":"οἷς ἅπασι τὸ μὲν τῆς βασιλείας ἐντεῦθεν κατεμηνύετο κράτος, οὐ μὴν εἰρηνικὸν οὐδὲ ἥσυχον, ἀλλὰ μυρίων γέμον κακῶν αὐτοῖς τε ἐκείνοις καὶ τοῖς ὑπ' αὐτοὺς ἐσομένοις, μᾶλλον δὲ καὶ πλέον ἐκείνοις, ὅσῳ καὶ ἐλάττοσι τύχαις παρὰ τοὺς βασιλεύοντας τὸ ὑπήκοον χρῆται· Ἀσκάνιος μὲν γὰρ ἐν Ἄλβῃ τὴν μητρυιὰν σεν, ἡ δὲ ἐκαινοτόμησε περὶ τὸ Τρωικὸν καὶ τὴν προσηγορίαν δὲ ὁ λ Τύλλος οὕτω πολέμων τὴν πόλιν ἐπλήρωσεν ὥστε μὴ δυνηθῆναι τῆς ὑπὸ Νουμᾶ κατασταθείσης εἰρήνης Ῥωμαίους ἀπολαῦσαι· περὶ δὲ Κωνσταντίνου μακρηγορεῖν οὐκ ἀναγκαῖον, ἐν βιβλίοις τὴν μνήμην τῶν περὶ αὐτὸν συμβεβηκότων ἐχόντων ὑμῶν. Πολλάκις δὲ καὶ σπινθὴρ βραχὺς ἐκ μετεώρων καταφέρεσθαι δόξας ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν, εἶτα ἐξ ἐπιδόσεως εἰς κύκλον τινὰ σελήνης ὅμοιον ὤφθη δισκωθείς· τοῦτο, ὅπερ ἔναγχος γέγονεν, οὐ μετρίων προδοσιῶν τε καὶ\n\nτυχῶν παρεδήλωσε κίνδυνον. Καὶ ὄμβρων δέ τινας τεραστίους διοσημείας ἐπὶ τῆς ἱστορίας εὑρίσκομεν. ἐπὶ μὲν γὰρ Ἀκελίου Μάρκου καὶ Πορκίου τῶν ὑπάτων γάλα πρῶτον, εἶτα δὲ καὶ αἷμα κατενεχθῆναί φασιν. καὶ κρέα δὲ παραδόξως ἀνθ' ὑετοῦ κατὰ τὴν Βολουμνίου κατέπεσεν ὑπατείαν, καὶ ἔμεινεν οὕτως· οὐ γὰρ ἂν θηρίον ἢ πτηνὸν ἤ τι τῶν ἐμψύχων λιμῶξαν καθάψαιτο ἐκείνου τοῦ σώματος. κατερρύη δὲ καὶ σίδηρος ἐπὶ Λευκανίας ἀνθ' ὑετοῦ, Κράσσου τὴν ἐπὶ Πέρσας ὁρμῶντος ἐπιστρατείαν. Μαρκέλλου δὲ τὴν ὕπατον ἀρχὴν διανύοντος ἔριον κατενεχθῆναί φασι περὶ Κάψαν τὸ φρούριον ἐπὶ Μίλωνος· ὃ τοῦ τὴν χώραν ἐπιτροπεύοντος ἀναίρεσιν ἐμαντεύετο. κατηνέχθησαν δὲ πλίνθοι πολλάκις ὀπταὶ καὶ κόνις, ὥσπερ ἐπὶ Ζήνωνος τοῦ καθ' ἡμᾶς.","english":"By all these signs the power of the reign was indicated from that source, yet not peaceful nor calm, but full of countless evils both for those very men and for those who would be under them, and indeed more so for the latter, inasmuch as the subject people experience lesser fortunes than those who reign. For Ascanius in Alba... his stepmother, and she innovated concerning the Trojan matter and its name; and Tullus so filled the city with wars that the Romans could not enjoy the peace established by Numa. But concerning Constantine it is not necessary to speak at length, since you have in books the memory of the events that happened in his time. Often, too, a small spark seemed to be borne down from the heavens to the earth, and then by increase it was seen to be shaped into a disk like a circle of the moon; this, which has happened recently, indicated the danger of no moderate betrayals and fortunes. And we find in history certain monstrous signs of rain. For in the consulship of Acelius Marcus and Porcius they say that first milk, then blood, was brought down. And flesh fell wondrously instead of rain during the consulship of Volumnius, and it remained thus; for no beast or bird or any living creature, however hungry, would touch that body. And iron also flowed down over Lucania instead of rain, when Crassus was rushing his expedition against the Persians. And while Marcellus was completing the consular office, they say wool was brought down around the fortress of Capsa in the time of Milo; which foretold the destruction of the one governing the country. And often baked bricks and dust were brought down, as in the time of Zeno in our own day.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":9,"ref":"p9","source":"Ὅπλων δὲ καὶ σαλπίγγων ἀπ' οὐρανοῦ γενέσθαι διαφόρως ἔδοξεν ἦχος, ὅπερ λέγεται συμβῆναι κατὰ τὴν Κίμβρων ἐπιδρομήν, καὶ ἡνίκα τοῖς ἐμφυλίοις ἐκείνοις πάθεσι τὸ Ῥωμαϊκὸν διεταράττετο. Ἔστι δὲ καὶ ὅτε κατ' αὐτὸν τὸν οὐρανὸν ἐκπύρωσις ἔδοξε γίνεσθαι, καθάπερ καθ' ἡμᾶς, Ἀναστασίου ἓξ πρόσθεν ἐνιαυτοῖς τῆς τελευτῆς ̣ ̣, ἡνίκα τοιαύτη μὲν ἡλίου γέγονεν ἔκλειψις ὡς ἐν ἡμέρᾳ μέσῃ καὶ τοὺς ἀλαμπεστάτους τῶν ἀστέρων διαφανῆναι, τὰ δὲ ἀεροπόρα καθάπερ ἐν νυκτὶ μέσῃ καταπεσεῖν. εἶτα τῆς ἐπιούσης νυκτὸς πῦρ ἀνεφλέχθη τοσοῦτον ὥστε σπινθήρων τὸν ἀέρα γενέσθαι μεστόν. ἐδηλοῦτο δὲ ἄρα ὁ μὲν δῆμος ἐπαναστησόμενος τῷ βασιλεύοντι, ἡ δὲ πρὸς τῇ Μυσίᾳ στρατιὰ ἔργον τῆς Βιταλιανοῦ γενησομένη χειρός ̣ ̣· αὐτὸς δὲ μέχρι τῶν τῆς πόλεως τειχῶν ἐλάσας παρὰ μικρὸν ἦλθε τῶν πραγμάτων κρατῆσαι. καὶ τὸ δὴ πέρας, οὕτως ἀτιμοτάτης βαρβάρων γενομένης ἐφόδου, μικροῦ προήκατο καὶ τὴν βασιλείαν ἑκὼν Ἀναστάσιος, καὶ φαῦλα δὲ συνέβη πάντα, ὅσα ἐν εἰδόσι λέγειν ἀδολεσχίας ἐστίν. Καὶ θαυμαστὸν οὐδὲν εἰ προθεωροῦσιν ἄνθρωποι τὰ ἐσόμενα, τῆς φύσεως αὐτῆς προδεικνυούσης τὰ πράγματα. ὥς που καὶ Ἀναξαγόρας ἐπὶ τῆς ἑβδομηκοστῆς καὶ ὀγδόης ὀλυμπιάδος λίθον μέγιστον ἐκ τοῦ ἡλίου ἐκπεσεῖν ἐμαντεύσατο, ὅπερ καὶ συμβέβηκεν ὕστερον ἐπὶ Θρᾴκης· καὶ μέχρι νῦν ἔστιν ὁ λίθος, καὶ ἐξ αὐτῆς εὐθὺς τῆς θέας περιπεφλέχθαι δοκῶν. ταὐτὸ δὲ τοῦτο κατά τε Ἄβυδον καὶ Κύζικον συμβῆναί φησιν Ἀπουλήιος· ὅθεν ἔτι καὶ νῦν λίθος ἐστὶ παρ' αὐτοῖς πυρώδης μὲν τὸ χρῶμα, σιδήρῳ δὲ ἅπας κατασεσημασμένος·","english":"It has seemed in various ways that a sound of arms and trumpets came from heaven, which is said to have happened at the invasion of the Cimbri, and when the Roman state was thrown into confusion by those civil calamities. There are also times when a conflagration seemed to occur in the very heaven itself, as in our own day, six years before the death of Anastasius, when there was such an eclipse of the sun that in the middle of the day even the faintest of the stars shone forth, and things that move through the air fell as in the middle of the night. Then on the following night fire blazed up so greatly that the air became full of sparks. It was signified, then, that the people would rise up against the reigning emperor, and that the army near Mysia would become the work of the hand of Vitalianus; and he, having driven as far as the walls of the city, came near to seizing control of affairs. And in the end, when the barbarians' assault had become so utterly dishonorable, Anastasius came near to surrendering even his kingdom willingly, and all the evils that followed—to speak of them among those who know is mere idle talk. And it is no wonder if men foresee what is to come, since nature herself foretells events. As, for instance, Anaxagoras at the seventy-eighth Olympiad prophesied that a great stone would fall from the sun, which indeed happened later in Thrace; and the stone is still there, and from its very appearance it seems to have been scorched. Apuleius says that this same thing happened at Abydus and Cyzicus; whence even now there is a stone among them, fiery in color, and entirely marked with iron.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":10,"ref":"p10","source":"παραδεδόσθαι γὰρ λόγος Κυζικηνοῖς ὡς συναπολέσθαι τῷ λίθῳ τὴν πόλιν ἀνάγκη. Ἵππαρχος δὲ ἑξακοσίοις ἔμπροσθεν ἐνιαυτοῖς ἡλιακὴν προκατέλαβεν ἔκλειψιν. ἐπὶ δὲ τῆς φυσικῆς ἱστορίας ὁ Ῥωμαῖος Πλίνιος λίθον ἑωρακέναι φησὶν ἐν Βοκοντίῳ τῆς Ἰταλίας ἐξ οὐρανοῦ κατενηνεγμένον· ὥστε πολλὴ κοινωνία ταῖς διοσημείαις πρὸς τὰ γήινα, κἂν τοῖς ἀπὸ τῆς στοᾶς μὴ δοκῇ. ὥσπερ ἡ μὲν ἐπιτολὴ τῶν ὑάδων ὄμβρον πολύν, ἡ δὲ τῶν ἐρίφων καὶ τοῦ ἀρκτούρου χαλαζώδη τοῦτον ἀποτελεῖ. περὶ δὲ τῆς τοῦ κυνὸς ἐπιτολῆς μὴ καὶ περιττὸν ᾖ λέγειν ὡς τῆς ἡλιακῆς ἀναπτομένης θερμότητος λυττῶσιν οἱ κύνες, καὶ τοῦτο τῆς ἀναιρέσεως αὐτῶν γέγονεν αἴτιον, ὡς ἂν μὴ δάκνοντες ἀναιρῶσιν. ἀναβλύζειν δὲ πέφυκε καὶ τὰ θαλάττια ὕδατα ἐν ὡρισμέναις τισὶ περιόδοις, ἄνθρωποί γε μὴν νεύροις ἢ κεφαλῇ ἢ καὶ αὐτῇ τῇ διανοίᾳ ἀσθενεῖν. αἴγειροι μὲν γὰρ καὶ πτελέαι περὶ τὰς ἡλίου τροπὰς μεταβάλλειν τὴν κόμην πεφύκασιν, ̣ ̣ ὁ δὲ λεγόμενος γλήχων ὑπ' αὐτὴν τὴν τοῦ ἡλίου θάλλει τροπήν· ἡ δὲ ἡλιότροπος καλουμένη βοτάνη πρὸς τὴν ἡλιακὴν μεταστρέφεται φοράν, ἀνίσχοντι αὐτῷ καὶ δυομένῳ συμμετατιθεῖσα τὸ σχῆμα. περὶ γὰρ τῶν ἐναλίων τούτων, ὀστρέων λέγω καὶ χημῶν καὶ κτενῶν καὶ τῶν ἄλλων, οὐδεὶς ἀμφισβητήσει ὅτι αὔξεται καὶ συμφθίνει ταῖς σεληνιακαῖς φάσεσιν, ὡς καὶ τὰ τῶν μυῶν ἥπατα καὶ πλεῖστα ἕτερα, περὶ ὧν ἐν τοῖς περὶ Μηνῶν γραφεῖσιν ἡμῖν διελάβομεν. πρὸς τούτοις ἐμπρησμοὺς γίνεσθαι συμβαίνει, ὅταν ἡ σελήνη κατ' ἔλλειψιν ὑπὸ Ἄρεος θεωρηθῇ. Ὡς γὰρ αὐτὰ","english":"For it is said to have been handed down to the Cyzicenes that the city must perish together with the stone. Hipparchus, six hundred years ago, foretold a solar eclipse. And in his Natural History the Roman Pliny says that a stone was seen in Bocontium of Italy brought down from heaven; so that there is a great kinship between celestial signs and earthly things, even if it does not seem so to the Stoics. Just as the rising of the Hyades produces much rain, and that of the Kids and Arcturus produces hail. And concerning the rising of the Dog, is it not superfluous to say that when the sun's heat is kindled the dogs go mad, and this has become the cause of their destruction, so that they may not bite and kill? Sea waters too naturally gush forth at certain fixed periods, and men grow weak in the sinews or the head or even in the mind itself. For poplars and elms naturally change their foliage around the solstices, and the so-called pennyroyal blooms at the very turning of the sun; and the herb called heliotrope turns toward the sun's course, changing its shape as he rises and sets. For concerning these sea creatures—I mean oysters and mussels and scallops and the others—no one will dispute that they grow and waste away with the lunar phases, as also the livers of mice and most other things, about which we have discussed in what we wrote On Months. In addition to these, conflagrations occur whenever the moon is observed in eclipse by Mars. For as these","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":11,"ref":"p11","source":"καθ' ἑαυτὰ τὰ γήινα δηλωτικὰ τυγχάνει τῶν ἐσομένων, περιττὸν ἂν εἴη μακρηγορεῖν. ὅταν μὲν γὰρ ἱδροῦν ἢ δακρύειν δοκῇ ἀγάλματα ἢ εἰκόνες, ἢ ὅταν κάμινος ἢ ἰπνὸς περιπεφρυγμένος ἐκλάμψῃ, στάσεις ἐμφυλίους ἀπειλεῖ. ἢ ὅταν ποταμοὶ τὰς ἑαυτῶν ὑπερχέωσι κοίτας, ἔφοδον πολεμίων φράζουσιν. αἱ γὰρ ἱδρώσεις προβατείων σπλάγχνων τί σημαίνουσιν, οὐδεὶς ἀγνοεῖ. ἢ καὶ ὅταν ἐπίθολον ὕδωρ αἱ φρεατίαι ἀναβλύζωσι, καθ' ἑαυτῆς ἡ πολιτεία *. ἢ καὶ ὅταν ἰκτῖνος ἐν θεάτρῳ συνηγμέ νῳ τῷ πλήθει ἀνέδην περιποτᾶται, ὁποῖον ἱπποδρομίας ἐπιτελουμένης εἴδομεν ἐπὶ τῆς ἄρτι διελθούσης ἐνάτης ἐπινεμήσεως, ἧς ἀγομένης ἰκτῖνος τὸ βέλος, τὴν λεγομένην σαγίτταν, τῷ ῥέμφει φέρων, ὅλον ἐπικυκλώσας τὸν δῆμον, ἐπὶ τοῦ ὀβελοῦ ταύτην διωλύγιον συρίττων ἀπέθετο. ὁ δὲ δῆμος οὐδὲν βραδύνας, καθ' ἑαυτοῦ δὲ κινηθείς, αὐτὸς μὲν ἀπώλλυτο, ἡ δὲ πόλις πυρὶ πᾶσα διεφθείρετο, ὡς καὶ αὐτὴν τὴν βασιλείαν, εἰ μὴ θεὸς ἀντέπραττεν, οὐ πόρρω κινδύνων ἐλθεῖν. τὰ γὰρ περὶ ἐπόπων καὶ νυκτικοράκων λύκων τε καὶ ἀλωπέκων, ὅταν ἐν πόλεσι φαίνωνται, τὰ εἰρημένα τοῖς ἀρχαίοις μετὰ Πόλλητα καὶ τοὺς ἐξ ὧν αὐτὸς διαλέγεται, περιττὸν ἄντικρυς ἀναφέρειν. Τοσαῦτα μὲν οὖν πρὸς τοὺς ταῖς διοσημείαις ἐνισταμένους καὶ Πτολεμαίῳ τολμῶντας ἀντιλέγειν ἐκ πολλῶν ὀλίγα λελέχθω. καιρὸς δὲ ἄρξασθαι τῆς ἐπαγγελίας, ἐκ τῶν ἡλιακῶν ἀποτελεσμάτων λαμβάνοντας τὰ προοίμια. Ἰστέον ἐν πρώτοις ὡς μόνος ὁ ἥλιος καθολικὰς ἔχει ἐνεργείας, τῶν ἄλλων διοσημειῶν τοπικὰς ἐχουσῶν.","english":"That earthly things in themselves are indicative of future events, it would be superfluous to relate at length. For whenever statues or images appear to sweat or weep, or whenever a furnace or an oven thoroughly heated flashes forth, it threatens civil strife. Or whenever rivers overflow their own beds, they announce an incursion of enemies. For what the sweatings of the entrails of sheep signify, no one is ignorant. Or again, whenever wells bubble up muddy water, the state [is endangered] against itself. Or again, whenever a kite flies about freely in the theater with the crowd gathered, such as we saw when a horse-race was being held in the ninth indiction that has just passed, during which a kite, carrying in its beak the missile called the arrow, after circling the entire populace, deposited it upon the spit with a tremendous hiss. And the people, delaying not at all but stirred up against themselves, were themselves destroyed, and the whole city was consumed by fire, so that even the imperial authority itself, unless God had opposed it, came not far from danger. For the matters concerning watchers and night-ravens and wolves and foxes, whenever they appear in cities, the things said by the ancients after Polletas and those from whom he himself converses, it is altogether superfluous to report. So much, then, has been said briefly out of many things against those who oppose weather-signs and dare to contradict Ptolemy. But it is time to begin the promised work, taking our prefaces from the solar effects. It must be known first of all that the sun alone has universal energies, while the other weather-signs have local ones.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":12,"ref":"p12","source":"δέδοται γὰρ ἅπαξ ἡλίῳ μὲν καλύπτεσθαι τῇ παρεμπτώσει τῆς σελήνης, αὐτῇ δὲ τῇ ἀντιπτώσει τῆς γῆς, καὶ τὸν μὲν ἐν συνόδῳ πάντων, τὴν σελήνην δέ, ὅταν ᾖ πλησιφαής. καὶ τούτου χάριν οὐδεὶς ἂν ἀμφισβητήσειε. προγνωσθῆναι δὲ τοῦτο λέγεται παρὰ μὲν Ἕλλησι πρὸς Θαλοῦ τοῦ Μιλησίου ἐπὶ τῆς ἐνάτης καὶ τεσσαρακοστῆς ὀλυμπιάδος, ἔτει ἑβδομηκοστῷ καὶ ἑκατοστῷ τῆς κτίσεως Ῥώμης ὕστερον, παρὰ δὲ Ῥωμαίοις ὑπὸ Σουλπικίου Γάλλου, μιᾷ πρόσθεν ἡμέρᾳ τῆς Περσέως τοῦ Μακεδόνος ἥττης. ἐπὶ δὲ Οὐεσπασιανοῦ τοῦ Καίσαρος ἐν πέντε καὶ δέκα ἡμέραις ἀμφοτέροις τοῖς φωσὶ τοῦτο συνέβη παθεῖν. Οὐ μὴν ἀεὶ τοῦτο τὸ πάθος τὰ αὐτὰ προμηνύει· οὐδὲ γὰρ μονοειδεῖς αἱ ἐκλείψεις, ἡλίου μὲν τὴν Ἀσίαν διέποντος, σελήνης δὲ τὴν Εὐρώπην *, καὶ μάλιστα ὅταν πρὸς τοὺς λεγομένους κακοποιοὺς ἡ ἔκλειψις γένηται, κακουμένων μὲν τῶν βασιλικῶν ζῳδίων καὶ τῆς τῶν ἀγαθῶν ἐπικουρίας ἀργούσης. ἐν ταύρῳ μὲν γὰρ ἢ παρθένῳ ἢ αἰγόκερῳ συμβαινούσης ἐκλείψεως ὁποτέρου τῶν φώτων κατὰ τοὺς προκειμένους λόγους, καρπῶν ἔνδεια καὶ διαφερόντως τῶν ὡρίμων συμβαίνει, καθὸ σταχυηφόρος μὲν ἡ παρθένος, ἀροτρεύει δὲ ὁ ταῦρος, ὁ δὲ αἰγόκερως πρῶτος τῶν τοιούτων καρπῶν ἀπογεύεται· εἰ δὲ ἐν διδύμοις ἢ ζυγῷ ἢ ὑδροχόῳ γένηται τὸ τοιοῦτον, ἀνθρωποειδοῦς ὄντος τοῦ τριγώνου, οἱ λοιμοί τε καὶ λιμοὶ ἐνσκήψουσιν· ὅταν δὲ ἐν καρκίνῳ ἢ σκορπίῳ ἢ ἰχθύσι συμβαίνῃ, ὄχλων φθοραὶ καὶ πολέμων στάσεις καὶ ἐναλίων ὄλεθρος ἐπικείσεται.","english":"For it has been granted once for all that the sun is covered by the interposition of the moon, and the moon by the counter-position of the earth—the sun at the conjunction of all, and the moon whenever it is full. And on this account no one would dispute it. This is said to have been foreknown among the Greeks by Thales of Miletus in the forty-ninth Olympiad, in the hundred and seventieth year after the founding of Rome, and among the Romans by Sulpicius Gallus, one day before the defeat of Perseus of Macedon. And in the time of Vespasian Caesar, within fifteen days this happened to both luminaries. Yet this affliction does not always portend the same things; for eclipses are not uniform in appearance—the sun governing Asia, the moon Europe—and especially when the eclipse occurs toward those called maleficent, while the royal signs are afflicted and the aid of the beneficent is idle. For when an eclipse of either of the luminaries occurs in Taurus or Virgo or Capricorn according to the foregoing accounts, there comes a scarcity of crops, and especially of the ripe ones, inasmuch as Virgo is grain-bearing, Taurus plows, and Capricorn is the first to taste of such crops. But if such a thing happens in Gemini or Libra or Aquarius, since the triangle is man-shaped, plagues and famines will fall upon them. And whenever it occurs in Cancer or Scorpio or Pisces, destructions of crowds and outbreaks of wars and destruction of things in the sea will threaten.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":13,"ref":"p13","source":"ἐπὶ δὲ τοῦ βασιλικοῦ τριγώνου, κριοῦ τε φημὶ καὶ λέοντος καὶ τοξότου, γινομένης ἐκλείψεως ἀνάγκη τινὰ τῶν περὶ τὴν βασιλείαν αὐτὴν παθεῖν τι τοιοῦτον, ὁποῖον συμβαίνει περὶ τὸ τρίγωνον, ἐκείνου προσεπιθεωμένου· ὡς ὅταν ἔκλειψις ἐν λέοντι γένηται τοῖς μὲν βασιλεῦσι κάκωσιν σημαίνει τινά, τὸν δὲ Νεῖλον ἀποστρέφει. ὥστε καὶ θαυμάζειν εἰκότως τὴν τοῦ θεοῦ πρόνοιάν ἐστι, παρ' ὅλον τὸν τῆς εὐτυχεστάτης ταύτης τῆς βασιλείας ̣ ị καιρὸν ἐκλείψεως ἐπὶ τούτου τοῦ ζῳδίου μὴ γενομένης. ταῦτα μὲν οὖν ὑπὲρ τῶν ἡλιακῶν ἐκλείψεων εἴρηται.\n\nΤηρητέον δὲ πρὸς τὰς καθόλου περιστάσεις τὰ κατὰ τὰς ἐκλείψεις χρώματα ἢ τῶν φώτων αὐτῶν ἢ τῶν περὶ αὐτὰ γινομένων συστημάτων, οἷον ῥάβδων ἤ τινων τοιούτων. μέλανα μὲν γὰρ ἢ ὑπόχλωρα φανέντα σημαντικὰ γίνεται τῶν ἐπὶ τῆς τοῦ Κρόνου φύσεως εἰρημένων, λευκὰ δὲ τῶν ἐπὶ τῆς τοῦ Διός, ὑπόκιρρα δὲ τῶν ἐπὶ τῆς τοῦ Ἄρεος, ξανθὰ δὲ τῶν ἐπὶ τῆς τῆς Ἀφροδίτης, ποικίλα δὲ τῶν ἐπὶ τῆς τοῦ Ἑρμοῦ· κἂν μὲν ἐν ὅλοις τοῖς σώμασι τῶν φώτων ἢ ἐν ὅλοις τοῖς περὶ αὐτὰ τόποις τὸ γενόμενον ἰδίωμα φαίνηται τῆς χροιᾶς, περὶ τὰ πλεῖστα μέρη τῶν χωρῶν ἔσται τὸ ἀποτέλεσμα· εἰ δὲ ἀπὸ μέρους οἱουδήποτε, κατ' ἐκεῖνο μόνον τὸ μέρος καθ' ὃ ἂν καὶ ἡ πρόσνευσις τοῦ ἰδιώματος γένηται. εἰ δὲ περὶ τὴν ἑῴαν ἢ τὴν ἑσπέραν μέλλει τοῦτο συμβαίνειν, ἐξ αὐτοῦ τοῦ πάσχοντος τοῦτο φωστῆρος γενήσεται δῆλον τῷ τὸν μὲν ἥλιον εἰς τὴν Ἀσίαν διαπαντὸς ἀνήκειν, τὴν δὲ σελήνην εἰς τὴν Εὐρώπην.","english":"In the case of the royal triangle—I mean Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius—when an eclipse occurs, it is necessary that some matter pertaining to the kingship itself suffer something of the sort that happens in relation to the triangle, with that further being observed: that whenever an eclipse occurs in Leo, it signifies some affliction for kings, and it turns back the Nile. So that one may reasonably marvel at the providence of God, since throughout the whole time of this most fortunate reign no eclipse has occurred in this sign. These things, then, have been said concerning solar eclipses.\n\nOne must observe, with a view to general circumstances, the colors at eclipses, either of the lights themselves or of the formations occurring around them, such as rods or certain things of that kind. For when they appear black or somewhat pale-green, they are significant of the things said to belong to the nature of Kronos; white, of those belonging to Zeus; somewhat yellow, of those belonging to Ares; tawny, of those belonging to Aphrodite; variegated, of those belonging to Hermes. And if the peculiarity of color that occurs appears in the whole bodies of the lights or in all the places around them, the effect will be over the most parts of the regions; but if from any part whatsoever, then only in that part in which the inclination of the peculiarity also occurs. And if this is about to happen around the east or the west, it will be clear from the luminary itself that suffers this, since the sun always belongs to Asia, and the moon to Europe.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":14,"ref":"p14","source":"Χρήσιμοι δ' ἂν εἶεν πρὸς τὰς τῶν κατὰ μέρος ἐπισημασιῶν προγνώσεις καὶ αἱ τῶν γινομένων σημείων περί τε τὸν ἥλιον καὶ τὴν σελήνην καὶ τοὺς ἀστέρας παρατηρήσεις. τὸν μὲν οὖν ἥλιον τηρητέον πρὸς μὲν τὰς ἡμερησίους καταστάσεις ἀνατέλλοντα, πρὸς δὲ τὰς νυκτερινὰς δύοντα, πρὸς δὲ τὰς παρατεινούσας κατὰ τοὺς πρὸς τὴν σελήνην σχηματισμούς, ἑκάστου σχήματος τὴν μέχρι τοῦ ἑξῆς κατάστασιν ὡς ἐπίπαν προσημαίνοντος. καθαρὸς μὲν γὰρ καὶ ἀνεπισκότητος καὶ εὐσταθὴς καὶ ἀνέφελος ἀνατέλλων ὁ ἥλιος ἢ καὶ δυόμενος εὐδιεινῆς καταστάσεώς ἐστι δηλωτικός· ποικίλον δὲ τὸν κύκλον ἔχων ἢ ὑπόπυρρον ἢ ἀκτῖνας ἐρυθρὰς ἀποπέμπων ἤτοι εἰς τὰ ἔξω ὡς ἐφ' ἑαυτὸν κυκλούμενος, ἢ τὰ λεγόμενα παρήλια νέφη ἐξ ἑνὸς μέρους ἔχων, τὸ δὲ σχῆμα τῶν νεφῶν ὑπόκιρρον καὶ ὥσπερ μακρὰς ἀκτῖνας ἀπομηκῦνον, ἀνέμων σφοδρῶν ἐστὶ δηλωτικὸς καὶ τοιούτων πρὸς ἃς ἂν γωνίας τὰ προειρημένα σημεῖα γίνηται. μέλας δὲ ἢ ὑπόχλωρος ἀνατέλλων ἢ δύνων μετὰ συννεφείας ἢ ἅλω ἔχων περὶ αὑτὸν καθ' ἓν μέρος ἢ ἐξ ἀμφοῖν τῶν μερῶν παρήλια νέφη καὶ ἀκτῖνας ἢ ὑποχλώρους ἢ μελαίνας, χειμῶνας δηλοῖ καὶ ὑετούς. Ἐκεῖνο δέ γε καὶ τοῖς εἰς δῆμον τελοῦσι πρόδηλόν ἐστιν, ὡς ὅταν ἀνίσχων ὥσπερ ὑπολανθάνῃ καὶ σκορπίζῃ δῆθεν ἐκδιδρασκούσας καὶ διαρραινούσας τῶν νεφῶν τὰς ἀκτῖνας, χαλάζῃ φράζει τὸν ὄμβρον καταρραγήσεσθαι μεμιγμένον. ὅταν δὲ δυόμενος πηλώδης εἶναι καὶ οὐ κυανόχρους δοκῇ, ὄμβρων τε ὁμοῦ καὶ ἀνέμων ἔσται μηνυτὴς καὶ διαφερόντως ἀνέμων, καθ' οὓς λέγομεν τρόπους τε καὶ ἅμα τόπους·","english":"Useful for the forecasts of the signs that occur in detail are also the observations of the phenomena that occur around the sun and the moon and the stars. The sun must be observed at its rising for the conditions of the day, and at its setting for those of the night, and for those that extend through its configurations relative to the moon, since each configuration generally foretells the condition up to the next one. For when the sun rises or sets clear and unobscured and steady and cloudless, it is indicative of a calm condition; but when it has a varied circle, or is somewhat fiery, or sends forth red rays, or is circled outward as if toward itself, or has the so-called parhelion clouds on one side, and the shape of the clouds is somewhat yellowish and, as it were, stretches out long rays, it is indicative of violent winds, and of such winds as correspond to the angles at which the aforesaid signs occur. But when it rises or sets dark or somewhat pale with cloudiness, or has a halo around itself on one side, or parhelion clouds and rays—either somewhat pale or dark—on both sides, it indicates storms and rains. And that too is evident even to laymen, that when at its rising it somehow lurks beneath and scatters, as it were, its rays that escape and disperse the clouds, it declares that the rain will burst forth mingled with hail. And when at its setting it seems to be muddy and not dark-blue, it will be a sign of rains and winds together, and especially of winds, in the ways and at the same time the places we speak of.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":15,"ref":"p15","source":"τοῦ γὰρ πνεύματος τοῖς ἀερίοις πρῶτον προσανατείνοντος, εἰκὸς αὐτὸν πλέον ἐξάπτεσθαι καὶ διαχέειν τὰς ἀκτῖνας δίκην λαμπάδος ὑπό τινος περιωθουμένους ἀνέμου. καθαρὸς δὲ ἀνίσχων βόρειον τε ἅμα ἔσεσθαι καὶ αἴθριον τὸν ἀέρα προλέγει· «βορέης» γὰρ «αἰθρηγενέτης» κατὰ τὸν ποιητήν· τοῖς γὰρ ὑψηλοτέροις τῶν μετεώρων ἐπιπνέων εἰς γῆν τε τὸ πυκνὸν καὶ ἀχλυῶδες ὠθῶν, καθαρὸν ποιεῖ καὶ ἀνεπισκότητον ἐκλάμπειν τὸν ἥλιον, ἐκδαπανῶν τὰ πυκνώματα καὶ τῷ λεπτῷ τοῦ πνεύματος τὴν ὑπήνεμον ταύτην ζώνην καὶ μᾶλλον τὴν πρὸς ἡμᾶς ἐκκαθαίρων τε καὶ λαμπροτέραν ποιῶν· Ὁ δέ γε Ῥωμαῖος Καμπέστριος ταῖς Πετοσιριακαῖς ̣ ̣ ἀκολουθῶν παραδόσεσι λέγει, ὡς ἀργυροειδὴς καὶ ἀμβλύχρους ὁ ἥλιος ἀνίσχων ἢ ὠχρὸς μέν, ὅλως δὲ ὑπομένων ὁρᾶσθαι, πολέμους καὶ συμφορὰς καὶ διχονοίας καὶ θορύβους καὶ στάσεις ἀνδρῶν ἐνδόξων καὶ βασιλέων θρήνους καὶ συκοφαντῶν καὶ πονηρῶν ἀνθρώπων εὐτυχήματα καὶ ἐπιεικῶν ἀστοχίας καὶ λογικῶν ὕβρεις καὶ ἀτιμίας δηλοῖ· πρὸς δέ γε τούτοις δημεύσεις τε τῶν εὐπατριδῶν καὶ ἀφορισμοὺς καὶ καθολικὴν σπάνιν τῶν ἀναγκαίων, στάσεις τε καὶ πατράσι πρὸς παῖδας καὶ αὖθις τοῖς παισὶ πρὸς τοὺς φύσαντας καὶ τὰς κατ' ἀλλήλων ἐπιβουλάς. Ἔσται δὲ ταῦτα καθολικὰ μέν, ἐπειδὰν κατὰ παντὸς τοῦ δίσκου τὸ σύμπτωμα ᾖ· μερικὰ δέ, εἰ καὶ τὸ σύμπτωμα μερικόν, καὶ καθ' οὓς τόπους ἀφορᾶν δοκεῖ τὸ συμβεβηκός· εἰ δέ γε","english":"For when the spirit first stretches out toward the airy regions, it is likely that the sun itself is more kindled and diffuses its rays like a torch driven by some wind. Rising clear, it foretells that the air will be at once northerly and serene; for \"the north wind is a clear-sky begetter,\" according to the poet. For blowing upon the higher parts of the heavens and driving the dense and murky matter down to the earth, it makes the sun shine forth pure and unclouded, consuming the thick vapors and by the fineness of the spirit cleansing this windward zone, and especially the region toward us, and making it brighter. But the Roman Campestris, following the Petosirian traditions, says that when the sun rises silver-like and dull-colored, or pale indeed but altogether continuing to be seen, it signifies wars and disasters and dissensions and tumults and seditions of distinguished men, and lamentations of kings, and successes of sycophants and wicked men, and failures of the equitable, and insolences and dishonors of the rational. And in addition to these things, confiscations of the property of the well-born and banishments and a universal scarcity of necessities, and seditions both of fathers against sons and again of sons against those who begot them, and plots against one another. And these things will be universal when the phenomenon occurs over the whole disk; but partial, if the phenomenon is also partial, and in those places which the occurrence seems to regard; but if indeed","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":16,"ref":"p16","source":"κατὰ τὴν λεγομένην ἀντιδίσκωσιν ὁ ἥλιος ἐκλίποι, μόνοις ἀπειλεῖ τοῖς βασιλεῦσι τὰ κακά, ὥσπερ καὶ ἐὰν ἐπὶ τοῦ βασιλικοῦ τριγώνου. Εἰ δέ γε ἐξ ἀναδόσεως ὑγρότητος παχύτητα τοῦ ἀέρος λαμβάνοντος ὁ ἥλιος ἀμαυροῖτο–τοῦθ' ὅπερ ἐπὶ τῆς ἔναγχος παρελθούσης τετάρτης καὶ δεκάτης ἐπινεμήσεως γέγονε παρ' ὅλον σχεδὸν τὸν ἐνιαυτὸν τὴν ὕπατον ἔχοντος Βελισαρίου τιμὴν ̣535 ̣ – ὡς διαφθαρῆναι τοὺς καρποὺς ἐξ ἀωρίας, σάλους βαρεῖς ἐπὶ τῆς Εὐρώπης προμηνύει γενέσθαι–καὶ τοῦτο ἐξ αὐτῶν εἴδομεν τῶν πραγμάτων, πολέμων τε γενομένων ἐπὶ τῆς ἑσπέρας πολλῶν καὶ τῆς τυραννίδος καταλυθείσης ἐκείνης–, Ἰνδίαν δὲ καὶ τὴν Περσῶν καὶ ὅση ξηροτέρα πρὸς ἀνίσχοντα ἥλιον οὐ σαλεύει παντοίως. ἀλλ' οὐδὲ εἰκὸς κατ' ἐκείνας συμβαίνειν τὸ πάθος, ἐπεὶ κατὰ τὴν Εὐρώπην τῆς ὑποκειμένης ὑγρότητος ἀναρπαζομένης καὶ εἰς νέφη συναγομένης ἀμαυροῦσθαι συμβαίνει τὴν ἡλιακὴν αἴγλην πρὸς τὴν ἡμετέραν οὐκ ἀφικνουμένην ὄψιν οὐδὲ τοῦτο διατιτρῶσαν τὸ πύκνωμα. Τὴν δὲ σελήνην τηρητέον ἢ πρὸ τριῶν ἢ μετὰ τρεῖς ἡμέρας τῆς συνόδου τε καὶ τῆς πανσελήνου καὶ διχοτόμου. λεπτὴ γὰρ καὶ καθαρὰ φαινομένη καὶ μηδὲν ἔχουσα περὶ ἑαυτήν, εὐδιεινῆς καταστάσεώς ἐστι δηλωτική. εἰ δὲ καὶ ἐρυθραίνοιτο μετρίως καὶ τὸ ἀφώτιστον τοῦ κύκλου διαφανὲς καὶ ὑποκεκινημένον ἔχοι, ἀνέμων ἐστὶ δηλωτική, καθ' ὃ ἂν μάλιστα ποιῆται τὴν πρόσνευσιν. εἰ δὲ ὠχρὰ καὶ παχεῖα δοκοίη, χειμώνων καὶ ὄμβρων ἐστὶ δηλωτική. Παρατηρητέον δὲ καὶ τὰς περὶ αὐτὴν γινομένας ἅλως. εἰ μὲν γὰρ μία εἴη καὶ αὐτὴ καθαρὰ καὶ ἠρέμα ὑπομαραινομένη, εὐδιεινὴν σημαίνει κατάστασιν.","english":"When the sun fails at the so-called antidiskosis, it threatens evils to kings alone, just as also if it happens in the royal triangle. But if, from the release of moisture when the air takes on thickness, the sun is dimmed—which is exactly what happened in the recently past fourteenth indiction, when Belisarius held the consular honor for nearly the whole year, 535—so that the fruits are corrupted by unseasonableness, it foretells that heavy commotions will occur in Europe—and this we have seen from the events themselves, many wars having occurred in the West and that tyranny having been overthrown—, but it does not in any way disturb India and the land of the Persians and whatever is drier toward the rising sun. Nor is it likely that the condition occurs in those regions, since in Europe, when the underlying moisture is snatched up and gathered into clouds, it happens that the sun's radiance is dimmed, not reaching our sight nor piercing through that density. One must observe the moon either three days before or three days after the conjunction and the full moon and the half moon. For appearing thin and clear and having nothing about itself, it is indicative of a calm condition. But if it should also be moderately reddened and have the unilluminated part of the circle transparent and somewhat stirred, it is indicative of winds, in the direction toward which it most makes its inclination. But if it should appear pale and thick, it is indicative of storms and rains. One must also observe the halos that form around it. For if there is one and it is itself clear and gently fading, it signifies a calm condition.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":17,"ref":"p17","source":"εἰ δὲ δύο ἢ καὶ τρεῖς εἶεν, χειμῶνας δηλοῦσιν· τοὺς μὲν δι' ἀνέμων, εἰ ὑπόκιρροι εἶεν καὶ ὥσπερ ὑπορρηγνύμεναι· τοὺς δὲ διὰ νιφετῶν, εἰ ἀχλυώδεις καὶ παχεῖαι· εἰ δὲ καὶ ὑπόχλωροι καὶ μέλαιναι καὶ ὥσπερ ῥηγνύμεναι, τοὺς δι' ἀμφοτέρων καὶ τοσούτῳ μείζονας ὅσῳ καὶ πλείους εἶναι δοκοῖεν. Αἱ δὲ διαδρομαὶ καὶ οἱ ἀκοντισμοὶ τῶν ἀστέρων, εἰ μὲν ἀπὸ μιᾶς γίνοιντο γωνίας, τὸν ἀπ' ἐκείνης ἄνεμον δηλοῦσι· εἰ δὲ ἀπὸ τῶν ἐναντίων, ἀκαταστασίαν πνευμάτων· εἰ δὲ ἀπὸ τῶν τεσσάρων παντοίους χειμῶνας μέχρι βροντῶν καὶ ἀστραπῶν καὶ τῶν τοιούτων. ὡσαύτως δὲ καὶ τὰ νέφη πόκοις ἐρίων ὄντα παραπλήσια προδηλωτικὰ ἐνίοτε γίνεται χειμώνων· αἵ τε συνιστάμεναι κατὰ καιροὺς ἴριδες χειμῶνα μὲν ἐξ εὐδίας, εὐδίαν δ' ἐκ χειμῶνος προσημαίνουσιν. καὶ ὡς ἐπίπαν συνελόντι εἰπεῖν αἱ καθόλου τοῦ ἀέρος ἐπιγινόμεναι ἰδιόχροοι φαντασίαι τοιαῦτα δηλοῦσι.\n\nΤοσαῦτα μὲν περὶ ἡλίου καὶ σελήνης καὶ τῶν καθ' ἑκατέρων αὐτῶν συμβαινόντων· Χωρητέον δὲ λοιπὸν ἐπὶ τὴν πρώτην ἡμῖν καὶ σχεδὸν μόνην τοῦ συγγράμματος πρόφασιν, φαμὲν δὲ τοὺς κομήτας ἀστέρας, ἐπεξιόντας τοῖς ὑπὲρ αὐτῶν δηλουμένοις, καθάπερ ἡμῖν ἐκ τῶν προειρημένων βιβλίων γέγονε δῆλον· γινόμενοι γὰρ κατὰ τοὺς ἐλλειπτικοὺς καιροὺς ἢ καὶ καθ' οἱονδήποτε χρόνον τοῖς τὰ τοιαῦτα ἐπιτηρεῖν ἐθέλουσι δῆλον ποιήσουσι διά τε τῶν τοῦ ζῳδιακοῦ κύκλου μερῶν, καθ' ὧν ἂν αἱ τοιαῦται γένωνται συστάσεις, διά τε τῶν κατὰ τὰ σχήματα τῆς κόμης προσνεύσεων τοὺς τόπους, οἷς ἐπισκήπτουσι τὰ δι' αὐτοὺς ἐκβησόμενα·","english":"But if there are two or even three, they signify storms: those caused by winds, if they are somewhat yellowish and as it were bursting forth; those caused by snowfalls, if they are murky and thick; but if they are also somewhat greenish and black and as it were breaking apart, they signify storms caused by both, and greater in proportion as they also appear more numerous. The courses and dartings of the stars, if they come from one quarter, indicate the wind from that quarter; but if from the opposite quarters, a disturbance of winds; but if from all four, storms of every kind, up to thunder and lightning and the like. In the same way, clouds resembling fleeces of wool are sometimes prognostic of storms; and rainbows forming at particular seasons foretell a storm after fair weather, and fair weather after a storm. And, to speak summarily, on the whole the peculiar-colored appearances that come upon the air indicate such things.\n\nSo much concerning the sun and the moon and the things that happen in relation to each of them. It remains, then, to proceed to the first and almost the only occasion of our treatise—I mean the comets—going through in order what is set forth about them, as has become clear to us from the books previously mentioned. For when they occur at the times of eclipses, or at any time whatever, they will make it clear to those who wish to observe such things, both through the parts of the zodiacal circle in which such gatherings occur, and through the inclinations of the hair in accordance with its shapes, the places upon which the things that will result from them fall;","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":18,"ref":"p18","source":"καὶ διὰ μὲν αὐτῆς τῆς συστάσεως καὶ ὡσανεὶ μορφώσεως τό τε εἶδος τοῦ ἀποτελέσματος καὶ τὸ γένος περὶ ὃ τὸ πάθος συμβήσεται, διὰ δὲ τοῦ χρόνου τῆς ἐπιμονῆς τὴν τῶν συμπτωμάτων παράτασιν· ἔστι δ' ὅτε καὶ διὰ τῆς πρὸς τὸν ἥλιον σχέσεως τὴν καταρχήν· ἑῷοι μὲν γὰρ ἐπιπολὺ φαινόμενοι τάχιον ἐπισημαίνουσι * καὶ τοσούτῳ μείζονας ὅσον ἂν ἐκ πλειόνων μερῶν καὶ ἐπιπολὺ ἡ σύστασις γίνηται. Τὰ γὰρ καθολικὰ τῶν ἀποτελεσμάτων ἤτοι διὰ τῶν\n\nἐκλειπτικῶν ἐστι ἢ διὰ τῶν ἐπιφανειῶν τῶν κομητῶν συμβαίνοντα ὁρᾶται καὶ μάλιστα ὅταν πρὸ τῆς τοῦ ἡλίου ἐπιτολῆς τὰς κόμας ἐπιβάλωσι πρὸς ὁτιοῦν· διαφερόντως δὲ ὅταν ταῖς κόμαις ἐπικαλύπτωσι τινὰς τῶν πλανωμένων ἀστέρων. τῷ μὲν γὰρ τοῦ Διὸς ἐπιφέροντες τὰς κόμας, περὶ τοὺς βασιλικοὺς οἴκους τὰς ταραχὰς ἀποτελοῦσι· τῷ δὲ τοῦ Ἄρεος ὅταν ἐπενέγκωσι τὰς κόμας τῶν ἐν τοῖς ὅπλοις νόσους τε καὶ θανάτους, ἔτι δὲ καὶ πολέμων στάσεις ἀποτελοῦσι· τῷ δὲ τῆς Ἀφροδίτης γυναικῶν φθορὰν σημαίνει καὶ βασιλίδων θανάτους καὶ διαστάσεις ποιοῦνται· τῷ δὲ τοῦ Κρόνου καρπῶν ἐπισχέσεις, ἤτοι σπάνεις· τῷ δὲ τοῦ Ἑρμοῦ ταραχὰς τοῖς συναλλάγμασι παρέξουσι καὶ φήμας ἀηδεῖς τῷ πλήθει. Τὸν γὰρ ἥλιον καὶ τὴν σελήνην ἀδύνατον περιλάμψαι κομήτην. εἰ δὲ φαίνεται, ἢ πρὸ ἀνατολῶν ἢ περὶ δυσμὰς, περὶ τὸ διάφορον τῶν κλιμάτων τὴν κάκωσιν ποιήσει· ἐν μὲν γὰρ ταῖς ἀνατολαῖς τὰ περὶ τὴν Ἀσίαν, πρὸς δὲ τῇ δύσει τὰ περὶ τὴν Εὐρώπην κακώσει. οὐ μέντοι τὸ τέλος οὔτε τὴν σύντομον τῶν χρόνων παρέστησαν ὑπόστασιν οἱ περὶ ταῦτα διατρίψαντες.","english":"And through the very composition and, as it were, formation, they indicate both the form of the outcome and the kind of thing in which the affliction will occur; and through the duration of their persistence, the length of the events; and sometimes also through their position relative to the sun, the beginning. For appearing in the east for the most part, they give signs quickly, and to so much greater degree the more numerous the parts and the longer the composition becomes. For the universal outcomes are seen to occur either through eclipses or through the appearances of comets, and especially when before the sun's rising they cast their hair toward any direction; but particularly when with their hair they cover some of the wandering stars. For when they bring their hair upon the star of Zeus, they produce disturbances concerning royal houses; but when they bring their hair upon the star of Ares, they produce diseases and deaths among those in arms, and further also seditions of wars; upon the star of Aphrodite, it signifies the ruin of women and the deaths of queens, and they make dissensions; upon the star of Kronos, withholdings of crops, that is, scarcities; upon the star of Hermes, they will furnish disturbances to business dealings and unpleasant rumors to the multitude. For it is impossible for the sun and the moon to shine around a comet. But if it appears, either before sunrise or around sunset, it will cause harm according to the difference of the climes; for in the east it will harm the regions about Asia, but in the west the regions about Europe. However, those who have occupied themselves with these matters did not establish either the end or the brief subsistence of the times.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":19,"ref":"p19","source":"γίνονται δὲ καὶ ἐκ τῶν κατὰ μῆνας συνόδων καὶ πανσελήνων, ὅταν οἱ λεγόμενοι κακοποιοὶ τούτοις μαρτυρῶσι τῶν ἀγαθῶν μὴ συσχηματιζομένων, ὀλίγαι τινὲς ἐναντιώσεις, αἳ ῥαδίως λύονται διὰ τὸ μὴ κατὰ τὰς ἐκλείψεις τῶν φώτων τὰ τοιαῦτα ἀποτελεῖσθαι. Διάφοροι δὲ αἱ τῶν κομητῶν ὄψεις, ὡς καὶ διάφορα ἄλλα. οὐ τὰ αὐτὰ δὲ ἀποτελοῦσι· κακὰ δὲ πάντες. ὁ μὲν γὰρ κομήτης ἐστὶ πυρώδης καὶ ταῖς κόμαις αἱματώδης· ὁ δὲ πωγωνίας ἐκ τῶν κάτωθεν δίκην πώγωνος ἔχει τὰς κόμας· ὁ δὲ ἀκοντίας ὅμοιός ἐστιν ἀκοντίῳ καὶ ὥσπερ σίδηρος κραδαίνεται οὗ φανέντος ἡ Ἰουδαία ἑάλω, ὡς καὶ Εὐσεβίῳ τῷ Παμφίλου εἴρηται· ὁ δὲ ξιφίας βραχύτερος μὲν, ὠχρὸς δὲ καὶ ξιφήρεις ἔχων τὰς ἀκτῖνας· ὁ δὲ δισκεὺς δίσκῳ παρεμφερὴς καὶ τὸ εἶδος ὡς ἤλεκτρος· ὁ δὲ πίθος καπνώδους μὲν φωτὸς πλήρης, τὸ δὲ σχῆμα ὅμοιος τῇ προσηγορίᾳ· μεθ' οὗ ὁ κεράστης κερατοειδεῖς ἔχων τοὺς πλοκάμους· ὁ λαμπαδίας πρὸς τούτοις ὅμοιος λάμπαδι καιομένῃ· ἔστι γε μὴν ὁ ἵππος, ὁ καὶ ἱππεὺς καλούμενος δίκην λοφιᾶς ἵππου διαρραίνων τὰς ἀκτῖνας, ὀξύτατος δὲ παρὰ τοὺς ἄλλους διὸ καὶ τοιαύτης ἔτυχε τῆς προσηγορίας. σάλπιγγος ἔτι μέμνηται ὁ Πτολεμαῖος ἐν τοῖς πρὸς Σύρον, περὶ οὗ εἰπεῖν τι οὐκ ἔχομεν· οὐδὲ γὰρ εὑρίσκομεν παρ' ἑτέρῳ τοιοῦτόν τι κατάστημα. Γίνονται δὲ καὶ ἕτεροι κομῆται οἱ λεγόμενοι τράγοι, δίκην μαλλῶν ἢ πόκων ἐρίων νεφέλας τινὰς περικείμενοι· καὶ τὴν μὲν ἀρχὴν οὕτω φαίνονται, εἰς δοράτων δὲ σχῆμα ἀποτελοῦνται. οὗτοι δὲ πάντες οὐ πλείω ἢ ἐπὶ ἑπτὰ ἡμέρας πεφύκασι φαίνεσθαι·","english":"They also arise from the monthly conjunctions and full moons, whenever the so-called malefics bear witness to these, while the benefics do not configure with them—certain few oppositions, which are easily dissolved because such things are not brought to completion as in the eclipses of the luminaries. The appearances of comets are also various, as are various other things. But they do not produce the same effects; all of them, however, produce evil. For the comet is fiery and bloody in its hair; the pogonias has its hair from below in the manner of a beard; the akontias is like a javelin and is brandished like iron, at whose appearance Judaea was captured, as has also been stated by Eusebius of Pamphilus; the xiphias is shorter, but pale and having sword-like rays; the diskos is similar to a disc and in form like electrum; the pithos is full of smoky light, and in shape is like its name; with which is the kerastes, having horn-like tendrils; the lampadias, moreover, is like a burning lamp; there is also the hippos, which is also called the hippeus, scattering its rays in the manner of a horse's mane, and it is the swiftest of the others, wherefore it also obtained such an appellation. Ptolemy still mentions the salpinx in his work against Syrus, about which we have nothing to say; for we do not find such a constitution in any other writer. There also arise other comets called tragoi, wrapping certain clouds about themselves in the manner of locks or fleeces of wool; and at first they appear thus, but they are formed into the shape of spears. All these, however, are naturally disposed to appear for no more than seven days.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":20,"ref":"p20","source":"ἀλλ' οὐδὲ εἰκῇ ἐφ' οἱουδήποτε κλίματος τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, περὶ δὲ μόνον τὸν γαλαξίαν κατὰ τὸν Ἀριστοτέλην. Οἵ γε μὴν τυφῶνες κατὰ τὸν νότιον πόλον, σφαῖραι δ' εἰσὶν οὗτοι πυρώδεις καὶ ὡσανεὶ σύνδεσμοι πυρός· οὗτοι δὲ ἐπὶ μὲν τῶν Ῥωμαϊκῶν καιρῶν οὐκ ἐφάνησαν, πρὸ δὲ αὐτῶν φανέντες ἔσεισαν τὴν Αἴγυπτον. ὅθεν αὐτοὺς Ἀριστοτέλης ἐξ ὑποκειμένης ὑγρᾶς οὐσίας ἀποτελεῖσθαι βούλεται· καὶ διὰ τοῦτο ἀραιῶς ἐπὶ τῆς Αἰγύπτου φαίνεσθαι διὰ τὴν ὑποκειμένην ξηρότητα. οἱ δ' ἄλλοι πάντες ἐπὶ τὸν βορέαν, κἂν ἢ πρὸς ἀνατολὰς ἢ δύσεις ὁρῶσι.\n\nΠερὶ δὲ τὸν στέφανον ἄλλος ἀναδύεται κομήτης, ὅστις ὅταν φαίνηται τὴν τῶν Περσῶν ἀπειλεῖ κίνησιν. ἐφάνη δὲ καὶ ὅτε Νέρων τῆς μανίας ἐνήρχετο. Ἐκλάμπουσι δὲ πρὸς τούτοις καὶ λαμπάδες ἐν τῷ οὐρανῷ ἢ μᾶλλον ἐν τῷ ἀέρι οὐδὲν γὰρ ἄστρον προσπέπηγε τῷ οὐρανῷ καὶ φαίνονται ὅταν ἐκπίπτωσιν· ὁποῖον γέγονε ἐπὶ Γερμανικοῦ Καίσαρος, ὅτε ἀγομένου θεάτρου ἐπὶ τῆς Ῥώμης τοιοῦτόν τι συμβέβηκεν, ὡς μηδένα σχεδὸν ἀγνοῆσαι τῶν τότε. δύο δὲ σχήματα ἔστιν, ὧν τὰ μὲν λαμπάδες καλοῦνται, τὰ δὲ βολίδες. καὶ αἱ μὲν λαμπάδες ἐπὶ τῆς ἀρχῆς διακαίονται, αἱ δὲ βολίδες δι' ὅλου πυρώδεις","english":"But not even at random in any region of the sky, but only around the Milky Way, according to Aristotle. The typhoons, however, occur around the southern pole, and these are fiery spheres, as it were, and bonds of fire; these did not appear in Roman times, but having appeared before them they shook Egypt. Hence Aristotle holds that they are produced from an underlying moist substance; and for this reason they appear rarely over Egypt because of the underlying dryness. But all the others occur toward the north, whether they face east or west.\n\nAround the corona another comet rises, which, whenever it appears, threatens the movement of the Persians. It appeared also when Nero was beginning his madness. In addition to these, torches shine in the sky, or rather in the air—for no star has been fixed to the sky—and they appear whenever they fall out; such a thing happened in the time of Germanicus Caesar, when, as a spectacle was being held in Rome, something of this sort occurred, so that almost no one of those then was unaware of it. There are two shapes, of which some are called torches and others missiles. And the torches are kindled at their beginning, while the missiles are fiery throughout.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":21,"ref":"p21","source":"καταφέρονται ἕλκουσαι αὔλακα μακράν. Φαίνονται δὲ καὶ δοκοὶ καὶ οὕτως αὐτὰς οἱ Ἕλληνες καλοῦσιν. γίνεται δὲ καὶ χάσμα ἐν τῷ οὐρανῷ, οὗ συμβαίνοντος σάλοι καὶ ῥήξεις ἐξ αὐτῶν καὶ διαστάσεις τῆς γῆς γίνονται. καὶ ἕτερον δ' ἔτι ἐμπρησμῷ παραπλήσιον πολλάκις φαίνεται· ὁποῖον ἐπὶ τῆς ἱστορίας εὑρίσκεται, ὅτε Φίλιππος ὁ Ἀμύντου ἐσάλευσε τὴν Ἑλλάδα. Φαίνονται δὲ καὶ περὶ τὸν ἥλιον ἀστέρες διὰ πάσης τῆς ἡμέρας καὶ περὶ τὸν δίσκον αὐτὸν καθάπερ στέφανος καὶ ποικιλόχροοί τινες κύκλοι, ὁποῖοι ἐφάνησαν, ὅτε Αὔγουστος τοὺς ἐμφυλίους πολέμους ἐκδικῶν τὸν πατέρα ἀνανεοῦν ἔκρινεν. οὐδὲν δὲ ἧττον φαίνεσθαι συμβαίνει, ὡς ἔφαμεν ̣ ̣, περὶ τὸν ἥλιον ὡσανεὶ τόξον καὶ μανιάκας πυρώδεις. Τοιαῦτά τινα οἱ περὶ τὸν Ῥωμαῖον Βάρρωνα Νιγίδιόν τε καὶ Ἀπουλήιον προύθηκαν. Ὁ μέντοι Καμπέστριος, ἐξειλεγμένην τινὰ περὶ τούτων συντάξας πραγματείαν, αὐταῖς λέξεσι καθ' ἑρμηνείαν περὶ κομητῶν, καὶ ὅ τι ἀπειλοῦσι, ταῦτα λέγει.","english":"They are borne down, drawing a long furrow. Beams also appear, and this is what the Greeks call them. A gap also occurs in the sky, and when this happens, tremors and ruptures from them and clefts of the earth occur. And another thing still, resembling a conflagration, often appears—such as is found in history, when Philip the son of Amyntas shook Greece. Stars also appear around the sun throughout the whole day, and around the disk itself as it were a crown, and certain rings of varied colors, such as appeared when Augustus, avenging his father, decided to renew the civil wars. And none the less it happens that, as we said, around the sun there appear as it were a bow and fiery streamers. Such things as these Varro the Roman, Nigidius, and Apuleius set forth. Campestris, however, having composed a select treatise concerning these matters, speaks in these very words, in translation, about comets and what they threaten, as follows.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":22,"ref":"p22","source":"1112 ΚΟΜΗΤΗΣ ΙΠΠΕΥΣ Ὁ λεγόμενος ἱππεύς ἐστι μὲν Ἀφροδίτης, ἐκ δὲ τῆς ὀξύτητος οὕτως ὠνόμασται· πλαγίους δὲ ἕλκει καὶ πυρώδεις πλοκάμους, αὔλακά τέ τινα φωτὸς ἀποτείνει, καὶ πάλιν εἰς βραχύν τινα κύκλον συνάγεται, ἀπείρῳ τινὶ συντομίᾳ καὶ ὀξύτητι ποτὲ μὲν περιρραίνων, ποτὲ δὲ συνάγων τοὺς λεγομένους αὐλακισμούς. Οὗτος ὅταν πυρώδης ἀνίσχων ἀπὸ δύσεως πρὸς ἀνατολὰς ἀκοντίζῃ τοὺς ἑαυτοῦ πλοκάμους, τὴν Περσῶν ἀπειλεῖ ἐπανάστασιν, ὥστε δεῖν δυνάμεις πολλὰς στρατευμάτων ἐπὶ τὴν ἀνατολὴν συνδραμεῖν, τάς τε Συρίας πληρῶσαι τὸν ὁποιδήποτε γῆς ἀπῳκισμένον στρατιώτην, καὶ ὡς οὐκ ἀρκούσης τῆς παρασκευῆς πρὸς τὸ πολεμίων κίνημα καὶ νεωτέρων γενέσθαι στρατολογίαν. ῥαγήσεται δὲ λοιμός, καὶ διαφερόντως τοῖς ἵπποις ἐνσκήψει, οὐ τοῖς Περσῶν ἀλλὰ τοῖς ἐκ τῆς Εὐρώπης ἐπ' ἐκείνους φερομένοις. καὶ τοῦτο ἐλάττωσις ἔσται πρώτη τοῖς λοιμώττουσιν. ἀλλ' οὐ μέχρι παντὸς τὰ Περσῶν εὐτυχήσει· μεγάλης γὰρ συντρεχούσης κατ' αὐτῶν παρασκευῆς φεύξονται, καὶ αἱ ληφθεῖσαι παρ' αὐτῶν πόλεις ἀφεθήσονται, ὁ δὲ βασιλεὺς αὐτῶν φεύγων ἀπολεῖται ταῖς τῶν ἰδίων χερσίν. εἶτα καὶ διαρπαγήσεται ὁ πλοῦτος Περσῶν, τὰ δὲ λήια ἄχρηστα τῶν γεωργῶν ἀναιρεθέντων ἢ καὶ λοιμῷ διαφθαρέντων γενήσεται. οὐ μὴν ἐμμενοῦσι τοῖς Περσῶν οὐδὲ ἐμβραδυνοῦσι τοῖς αὐτῶν οἱ ἀπὸ τῆς Εὐρώπης, ἀλλ' ἑκάτερον ἔθνος ὥσπερ τετελεσμένης τῆς μάχης ἐν τοῖς οἰκείοις ἐπανήξει.","english":"THE COMET CALLED HORSEMAN. The so-called Horseman is of Aphrodite, and from its swiftness it has been so named; it draws slanting and fiery locks, and stretches out a kind of furrow of light, and again is gathered into a short circle, with some boundless swiftness and speed, sometimes scattering and sometimes gathering together the so-called furrows. When this one, fiery, rising from the west, hurls its own locks toward the east, it threatens the revolt of the Persians, so that many forces of armies must rush together to the east, and fill Syria with the soldier settled anywhere in the land, and, since the preparation is not sufficient for the movement of the enemy, a fresh levy must be made. And a plague will break out, and it will fall especially upon the horses, not those of the Persians but those from Europe borne against them. And this will be the first loss to those afflicted by the plague. But the fortunes of the Persians will not prosper to the very end; for when a great preparation rushes together against them, they will flee, and the cities taken by them will be released, and their king, fleeing, will perish by the hands of his own men. Then also the wealth of the Persians will be plundered, and the crops will become useless, since the farmers are killed or destroyed by plague. Yet those from Europe will neither remain among the Persians nor linger in their own lands, but each nation, as though the battle were finished, will return to its own homes.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":23,"ref":"p23","source":"αῦτα μὲν οὖν ἀπειλεῖ, ὅταν πυρώδης ἀνίσχῃ· εἰ δὲ ὠχρός, πολέμους μέν τινας, ἀλλ' οὐ Περσικούς, σημαίνει, σεισμοὶ δὲ πάντως καὶ πένθη τινὰ τοῖς ἀνθρώποις ἐνσκήψουσι· λοιμὸς δὲ τοῖς βοσκήμασιν ἐπιπεσεῖται καὶ λιμὸς κάρτα βίαιος. Εἰ δὲ ὁ τοιοῦτος κομήτης ἐπὶ μεσημβρίαν ὁρᾷ, ὠχροὺς καὶ ὀξεῖς ἐπ' ἐκείνην βάλλων τοὺς πυρσούς, περὶ τὴν θερινὴν τροπὴν λοιμὸς βαρὺς ἐπιπεσεῖται τῇ Λιβύῃ καὶ πλῆθος ποικίλων κακῶν. ὅταν δὲ ἐπὶ τὴν ἄρκτον ἴδῃ, ἐκ τοῦ ἐναντίου ἡ Λιβύη κατὰ τῶν βορείων στρατεύσεται, μεγίστης αὐτῇ συμμαχούσης δυνάμεως. ἐλαττωθεῖσα δὲ εἶτα καὶ δύναμιν ξενικὴν συλλαβοῦσα τὴν μὲν ἀρχὴν οὐκ ἀγεννῶς καθοπλίσεται τῶν ἐναντίων, οὐ μετὰ πολὺ δὲ εἰς παντελῆ κακοδαιμονίαν πεσεῖται, ὥστε μετὰ τὸ ἀναιρεθῆναι ἐγγὺς ἅπαντας καὶ αὐτὸν ἀνδραποδισθῆναι καὶ δεθῆναι τὸν ἡγεμόνα τοῦ ἔθνους. Ἰστέον δὲ ὡς Λιβύην τὴν ἀπὸ τῆς ἐρυθρᾶς θαλάσσης ἄχρι Γαδείρων ἢ Ταρτησσοῦ ἢ τῆς λεγομένης παρὰ Μαυρουσίοις Γάδεως λαμβάνειν χρεών. οὐδὲ γὰρ περὶ Αἴγυπτον μόνην τὸ ἀποτέλεσμα, ἀλλ' ἀπολύτως περὶ τὴν Λιβυκὴν ἅπασαν ζώνην καλῶς ἂν λαμβάνοιτο, καὶ","english":"These things, then, it threatens when it rises fiery; but if it is pale, it signifies certain wars, though not Persian ones, and earthquakes and certain griefs will certainly fall upon men; and pestilence will fall upon the grazing beasts, and a very violent famine. But if such a comet looks toward the south, casting pale and sharp fires in that direction, around the summer solstice a heavy pestilence will fall upon Libya and a multitude of varied evils. But when it looks toward the north, Libya will march from the opposite direction against the northern peoples, with a very great power allied to her. But having been diminished and then having taken up foreign force, she will arm herself against the enemy not ignobly at first, but not long after she will fall into complete misfortune, so that after nearly all have been destroyed, both the leader of the nation himself will be enslaved and bound. But it must be known that one ought to understand Libya as the region from the Red Sea as far as Gades, or Tartessus, or what is called Gadeis among the Maurusians. For the effect is not only around Egypt, but absolutely around the whole Libyan zone it would be well understood, and","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":24,"ref":"p24","source":"διαφερόντως τὴν Μαυρουσίων, οἳ καὶ προσεχεῖς εἰσὶ τῇ πρὸς δυσμὰς Εὐρώπῃ, μόνῳ τῷ λεγομένῳ κατὰ τοὺς ἐπιχωρίους φρέτῳ οἱονεὶ πορθμῷ ἀπ' αὐτῆς διεστῶτες. Πέρας δὲ λοιμώξουσιν οἱ νικήσαντες, ὡς αἱρετὴν αὐτοῖς γενέσθαι καὶ τὴν ἐν πολέμῳ ἀπώλειαν, αὐχμὸς δὲ ἐξ αὐτοῦ καὶ λιμὸς ἔσται καὶ διαφερόντως τῇ Αἰγύπτῳ, ὡς ἐλεεινὴν τὴν ζωὴν τοῖς περιλειφθεῖσι νομισθῆναι· νόσος γὰρ βαρεῖα ἐπιπεσεῖται τῇ νέᾳ ἡλικίᾳ, καὶ ὁ Νεῖλος ἀποστραφήσεται, καὶ ἀνομβρία λοιμώδης ἔσται. Εἰ δὲ ἐπὶ δύσιν ἀπίδοι, ἕως τῶν Ἡρακλέους στηλῶν πόλεμος καὶ ἀπώλεια ἔσται τῶν στρατευμάτων καὶ λιμὸς καὶ πτώσεις τῶν βοσκημάτων. Εἰ δὲ ἐπὶ τὸν Βοώτην νεύοι, κρύος ἀπηνὲς ἄχρι Εὐξείνου καὶ χειμῶνες ἀήθεις ἐπισχεθήσονται, καὶ πολέμιοι καταδραμοῦνται τὴν χώραν. καὶ τὴν μὲν ἀρχὴν ἐλαττωθήσονται οἱ ἐγχώριοι, δυνάμεως δ' ὕστερον συντρεχούσης οὐ μόνον ἡττηθήσονται οἱ πολέμιοι, ἀλλὰ καὶ αἰχμάλωτοι οἱ ἡγεμόνες αὐτῶν ἐν δεσμοῖς ἔσονται· εἶτα ἐκεῖθεν ἐπὶ μεσημβρίαν μετελεύσεται ὁ νικήσας στρατός, καὶ τῶν ἐκεῖ ἀνθέξεται πόλεων, καὶ ἐν ἐπαίνοις ἔσται· καὶ αὐτὰ δὲ τὰ θεῖα καταλείψουσι τοὺς πολεμίους, ὥστε ἐκ περιστάσεως προστεθῆναι τοῖς νικηταῖς.","english":"...especially that of the Maurusians, who are also near to Europe toward the west, separated from it by only what the locals call a strait, as it were a ferry-crossing. In the end, the victors will ravage, so that even destruction in war becomes choice for them; and from it there will be drought and famine, and especially in Egypt, so that life will be deemed pitiable by those left behind; for a grievous disease will fall upon the young, and the Nile will turn away, and there will be a pestilential lack of rain. But if it looks toward the west, as far as the Pillars of Heracles there will be war and destruction of the armies, and famine, and falls of grazing beasts. But if it inclines toward Boötes, savage cold as far as the Euxine and unaccustomed storms will be checked, and enemies will overrun the land. And at first the inhabitants will be worsted, but when force gathers later, not only will the enemies be defeated, but even their leaders will be captives in bonds; then from there the victorious army will move on toward the south, and will take possession of the cities there, and will be in praises; and the divine things themselves will abandon the enemies, so that from the reversal they are added to the victors.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":25,"ref":"p25","source":"Τοσαῦτα τὰ σημαινόμενα, ὅταν ὠχρὸς φαίνηται ὁ ἱππεὺς μετρίως· ὅταν δὲ καθ' ὁμαλοῦ ὠχρότατος, ἐξωτικὸν μὲν οὐκ ἀπειλεῖ, ἐμφυλίους δὲ φράζει πολέμους, οὐκ ἐλάττους τῶν πρὸς τοὺς ἔξωθεν ἀπειλῶν τὰς συμφοράς, καὶ οὐ τοῦτο μόνον ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐλάττωσιν. ἐκείνῳ δὲ μάλιστα προσεκτέον, ὡς ἐπὶ χρόνον φαινόμενος, ὡς εἴρηται ̣ 13̣, ἐπὶ τὸν γαλαξίαν οὐδὲ γὰρ πρὸς ἀνατολὰς ὑπὲρ τὰς ἑπτὰ φανήσεται ἡμέρας ὁ τοιοῦτος ἀστήρ, χρόνια τὰ κακά, πρὸς βραχὺν δὲ καιρόν, ἐπίκαιρα σημαίνει. Οὗτος ὁ ἀστὴρ ἀναφέρεται μὲν Ἑρμῇ, οὐχ ἥττονας δὲ τοῦ προτέρου, δολιωτέρας μέντοι τὰς ἐνεργείας ποιεῖ. ὅταν μὲν γὰρ ἐπὶ τὴν ἀνατολὴν βλέπῃ, οἱ δυνατοὶ Περσῶν καὶ Αἰθιόπων τοὺς ἑαυτῶν βασιλεῖς φαρμάκῳ διαφθεροῦσι· τὸ αὐτὸ δὲ καὶ ἐπὶ Φοινίκης πρός τινων τοῦ πλήθους κατὰ τῶν ἐν τέλει ἁμαρτηθήσεται. φῆμαι δὲ ἔσονται οὐκ ἀληθεῖς, ἐκδειματοῦσαι τοὺς ἁπανταχοῦ. εἰ δὲ ἐπὶ μεσημβρίας ἀνίσχοι, Αἰγυπτίοις καὶ τοῖς ἄλλοις Λιβυκοῖς ἔθνεσι δόλους ὡσαύτως θανατηφόρους ἐπιφέρει, καὶ Αἰγύπτιοι μὲν ἕξουσι μεταβολὴν τῶν κακῶν, Λίβυες δὲ ἐμφυλίοις πολέμοις δαπανηθήσονται. ὅτε δὲ ἐπὶ τὴν δύσιν ὁρᾷ, τοῖς ἐκεῖσε δυνατοῖς τὰ ὅμοια ἀπειλεῖ, ὡς ἐξ ὑπονοίας κατ' ἀλλήλων ἐξενεχθῆναι εἰς φανερὸν πόλεμον. ὅτε δὲ ἐπὶ τὴν ἄρκτον ὁρᾷ, ἐπιμιξίαν δηλοῖ τῶν ἀρκτῴων καὶ Λιβυκῶν ἐθνῶν, ὥστε θυγατέρα Λίβυος δυνάστου δοθῆναι πρὸς γάμον ἀρκτῴῳ τυράννῳ, καὶ ἐπιβουλεῦσαι τῷ πατρὶ τὴν παῖδα καὶ προδοῦναι αὐτόν, ἔρωτι ἀσεβεῖ περὶ τὸν ἄνδρα κρατουμένην. Λαμπαδίας κομήτης, οὕτω προσαγορευόμενος ἐκ τοῦ σχήματος, ἔστι μὲν Ἑρμοῦ καὶ αὐτός·","english":"So much for the significations when the Horse appears moderately pale; but when it is very pale on a level course, it threatens no foreign danger, but portends civil wars, whose calamities are no less than the threats from without, and not only this but also diminution. And one must especially attend to this, that when it appears for a time, as has been said, toward the Milky Way—for such a star will not appear toward the east for more than seven days—it signifies long-lasting evils, but for a short time, things timely. This star is assigned to Hermes, and makes its effects no less than the former, but more treacherous. For when it looks toward the east, the powerful among the Persians and Ethiopians will destroy their own kings by poison; and the same will be done in Phoenicia by certain of the multitude against their magistrates. And there will be rumors, not true, that terrify people everywhere. But if it rises toward the south, it likewise brings deadly treacheries upon the Egyptians and the other Libyan peoples, and the Egyptians will have a change of evils, but the Libyans will be consumed by civil wars. And when it looks toward the west, it threatens the powerful there with similar things, so that from suspicion they are brought against one another into open war. And when it looks toward the north, it indicates an intermingling of the northern and Libyan peoples, so that a daughter of a Libyan dynast is given in marriage to a northern tyrant, and the daughter plots against her father and betrays him, overcome by an impious love for the man. The comet called Lampadias, so named from its shape, is also of Hermes;","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":26,"ref":"p26","source":"ὅταν δὲ ἐπὶ ἀνατολὰς ἴδῃ, ἀχλυώδη τὸν ἀέρα καὶ ἐξ αὐτοῦ βλάβην τῇ ἀμπέλῳ μαντεύεται· ἐκ γὰρ τῆς ἀχλύος τίκτονται σκώληκες, οἱ λεγόμενοι ἶπες. καὶ ἡ βλάβη μὲν καθολική, μάλιστα δὲ τοῖς περὶ τὴν ἄνω Ἀρμενίαν, Εὐφρατησίαν τε καὶ Φοινίκην καὶ Ταυροκιλικίαν γενήσεται. καὶ οὐ μόνον ἐν ἡμέρᾳ, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐν νυκτὶ οὕτως ἡ ἀχλὺς πυκνωθήσεται ὡς καὶ λαμπάδας ἀνημμένας ἀποσβέννυσθαι. τοῖς δὲ καρποῖς ἐμφυήσεται ἡ λεγομένη αἶρα καὶ ὑγρασία τις σηπτικὴ καὶ βλαπτικὴ τοῖς ἀμητοῖς· ἐκτροπαί τε ποταμῶν καὶ ὄμβρων ῥήξεις βιαιοτέρων καὶ κεραυνῶν βολαὶ ἔσονται, καὶ οὐδὲν ἧττον ὁ αὐχμὸς ἐπιτελεῖ, ὡς καὶ τοὺς ἀεννάους τῶν ποταμῶν ἀναφρυγῆναι. εἰ δὲ ἐπὶ νότον, ἔτι μᾶλλον ξηρότερον ἔσται καὶ λοιμωδέστερον τὸ τοῦ ἀέρος κατάστημα, τοῦ Νείλου ὑποξηρανθέντος, ὥστε ἑρπετῶν πάντα πληρωθῆναι. εἰ δὲ ἐπὶ τὴν ἄρκτον, ὁ μὲν αὐχμὸς τῷ ψυχρῷ τοῦ κέντρου ἡττηθήσεται, πῦρ δὲ ταῖς ὕλαις ἀδοκήτως καὶ τοῖς ὄρεσιν ἐμπεσεῖται, ὡς μηδὲ τοὺς ἐν","english":"But when it looks toward the east, it foretells a misty air and from this harm to the vine; for from the mist are bred worms, the so-called ipes. And the harm will be universal, but especially for those around Upper Armenia, Euphratesia, Phoenicia, and Taurocilicia. And not only by day, but also by night the mist will be so thickened that even lighted torches are extinguished. And into the fruits will grow the so-called aira and a certain moisture, putrefying and harmful to the harvests; there will be diversions of rivers and bursts of more violent rains and strikes of thunderbolts, and no less does the drought accomplish its work, so that even the ever-flowing rivers are dried up. But if it looks toward the south, the constitution of the air will be still drier and more pestilential, the Nile being somewhat dried up, so that all things are filled with reptiles. But if toward the north, the drought will be conquered by the cold of the center, but fire will fall unexpectedly upon the woods and the mountains, so that not even those in","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":27,"ref":"p27","source":"τοῖς ἄκροις ἢ φρουρίοις διατρίβοντας ἔξω τῆς βλάβης γενέσθαι· θάνατός τε πολὺς ἔσται, καὶ μάλιστα ἐπὶ τῆς Αἰγύπτου. ὅταν δὲ ἀνίσχων πρὸς δυσμὰς ὁρᾷ, κεραυνοὺς μὲν τῇ χώρᾳ, πτῶσιν δὲ τοῖς βοσκήμασι μαντεύεται, ἐμπρησμοί τε ἔσονται βαρεῖς. Οὗτος ὁ ἀστὴρ Διὸς μέν ἐστιν, οὕτω δέ ἐστιν ἐπίσημος, ὡς ἐξ αὐτοῦ πάντας τοὺς ἄλλους διοσημειακοὺς ἀστέρας κομήτας προσαγορεύεσθαι. οὗτος δὲ ἡνίκα λαμπροὺς καὶ ἀργυροειδεῖς τοὺς πλοκάμους ἐπὶ τὴν ἀνατολὴν ἀκοντίσῃ, Διὸς ἐν καρκίνῳ ἢ σκορπίῳ ἢ ἰχθύσιν ὄντος, Πέρσαις ἀγαθὰ μεγάλα μαντεύεται. ἀναστήσονται γὰρ καὶ ἐπὶ τὰ Ῥωμαίων ἐκχυθέντες πόλεις τε καὶ φρούρια καθέξουσιν, αἰχμαλώτων τε ἄπειρον πλῆθος καὶ πλοῦτον πολὺν λαβόντες νικηταὶ εἰς τὴν ἑαυτῶν χώραν ἀναζεύξουσι, μηδὲ συμβαλεῖν ὅλως τινὸς θαρροῦντος αὐτοῖς. ὅταν δὲ ἀποστρόφως ἀνίσχῃ ὁ κομήτης οὗτος, τοῖς καθ' ὧν ἀποστρέφεται, τὰς ἀστοχίας ἐπιφέρει. εἰ δὲ ἐπὶ τὸν νότον ἴδοι, ἐπιδώσει ὁ Νεῖλος ἀφθονώτερον, εἰρήνη τε καὶ εὐετηρία ἔσται ἐπὶ τῆς Αἰγύπτου, ὁμόνοιά τε καὶ εἰλικρινὴς τοῖς πᾶσιν ἡσυχία. εἰ δὲ ἀποστρεφόμενος καὶ κατὰ νῶτα ἔχων τὴν ἀνατολὴν ἐπὶ τὴν δύσιν ὁρᾷ, ἄπειρος ἔσται τοῖς Ῥωμαίοις εὐδαιμονία· Πέρσας τε γὰρ καταπολεμήσουσι καὶ αὐτοῦ ἀναιρουμένου τοῦ Περσῶν βασιλέως· πάντων τε ὁμοῦ τῶν ἀγαθῶν ἀφθονία τῇ Ῥωμαίων πολιτείᾳ ἔσται· θέαι τε ἄφθονοι καὶ δωρεαὶ φιλότιμοι καὶ ἱππικοὶ ἀγῶνες σπουδαιότεροι μετὰ ψυχαγωγίας τοῦ πλήθους ἐπιτελεσθήσονται καὶ ἁπλῶς εἰπεῖν τοῖς πράγμασι καθολικὴ ἔσται ἱλαρία.","english":"Those dwelling at the heights or in fortresses will be outside the harm; and there will be great mortality, especially in Egypt. But when, rising, it looks toward the west, it foretells thunderbolts for the land and falling for the grazing animals, and there will be severe conflagrations. This star is Zeus's, and it is so conspicuous that from it all the other prognostic stars are called comets. And when this one hurls its bright and silver-like tresses toward the east, with Zeus in Cancer or Scorpio or the Fishes, it foretells great goods for the Persians. For they will rise up and, pouring out against the Romans, they will occupy cities and fortresses, and taking a countless multitude of captives and much wealth, they will return as victors to their own land, with no one at all daring to join battle with them. But when this comet rises turned away, it brings failures upon those against whom it is turned. And if it looks toward the south, the Nile will give more abundantly, and there will be peace and prosperity in Egypt, and concord and sincere tranquility for all. But if, turning away and having the east at its back, it looks toward the west, there will be boundless prosperity for the Romans; for they will conquer the Persians in war, even with the king of the Persians himself being killed; and there will be an abundance of all goods together for the Roman state; and abundant spectacles and ambitious gifts and more zealous equestrian contests will be performed with the amusement of the multitude, and, to speak simply, there will be a universal cheerfulness in affairs.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":28,"ref":"p28","source":"εἰ δὲ ἐπὶ τὴν ἄρκτον ἴδοι κατὰ νῶτα τὸν νότον ἀφείς, καταδραμοῦνται Λιβύην οἱ ἀπὸ τῆς Εὐρώπης νόμῳ πολέμου καὶ οὐχ ἥκιστα οἱ ἀπὸ τοῦ ἀνατολικοῦ βορείου κατὰ τῶν δυτικῶν νοτίων. τοῖς δὲ ἐπὶ τὴν ἀνατολὴν καὶ Αἴγυπτον νοτίοις οἱ πρὸς βοήθειαν καὶ φυλακὴν τῶν ὅρων ἐνιδρύμενοι στρατιῶται τὰ χείριστα ἐπάξουσιν. ὁ λεγόμενος δισκεὺς, ὡς εἴρηται ̣ ̣, ἀπὸ τοῦ σχήματος οὕτω προσηγορεύθη, ὥστε κυκλοτερὴς ὢν οὐκ ἔστι δῆλος ἐπὶ ποῖον μέρος τοῦ κόσμου δοκεῖ ἀφορᾶν. ἀνίσχων δὲ κοινὰ πᾶσι μαντεύεται κακά· καὶ οὐδενὶ τῶν πλανητῶν ἀνάκειται, ἀλλ' ἐξ ἀνταυγείας τοῦ ἡλίου γίνεται. ἀπειλεῖ τοίνυν θορύβους καθολικοὺς καὶ πολέμους ἀπὸ τῆς ἄρκτου καὶ μεγάλων προσώπων ἀπώλειαν καὶ εὐτελῶν καὶ ἀγενῶν εὐπραγίαν, κίνδυνον δὲ καὶ αὐταῖς ταῖς πρώταις τύχαις ἐπάγει. ἐλαττωθήσεται δὲ πανταχοῦ τὰ Ῥωμαίων στρατεύματα, ὡς ἐγγὺς παντελοῦς ἀπωλείας ἐλθεῖν. ΚΟΜΗΤΗΣ ΤΥΦΩΝ οὗτος γίνεται μὲν ἐξ ἀντανακλάσεως τοῦ ἀέρος· ἔστι δὲ δρεπανοειδής, ἀργός, καπνώδης, στυγνός. ὅπου δ' ἂν βλέπῃ, καθολικὰ ἔσται κακὰ, πόλεμοί τε ἐξωτικοὶ καὶ ἐμφύλιοι βαρεῖς καὶ στάσεις δημοτικαὶ καὶ ἔνδεια τῶν ἀναγκαίων. ἀναιρεθήσονται δὲ καὶ ἡγεμόνες ἔνδοξοι ἐν πολέμοις καὶ μάλιστα εἰ ἐπὶ τρεῖς ἢ τέσσαρας ἡμέρας φαίνοιτο. Εἰ δὲ πλέον φανῇ, τοῦ παντὸς ἀπώλειαν καὶ ἀνατροπὴν ἀπειλεῖ καὶ πέρας τῶν κακῶν οὐδαμοῦ. ἀπολοῦνται δὲ πλεῖστοι ἐκ τοῦ Ῥωμαϊκοῦ στρατεύματος ἐν πολέμῳ, ληφθήσονται δὲ καὶ παρεμβολαὶ καὶ φρούρια Ῥωμαίοις προσήκοντα· καὶ αὐτοῖς δὲ τοῖς ἄρχουσι στασιάζων ὁ δῆμος ἐπελεύσεται. καὶ λοιμὸς ἔσται καὶ οὐδεὶς εὐχόμενος ἀκουσθήσεται·","english":"But if it looks toward the north, leaving the south behind its back, those from Europe will overrun Libya by the law of war, and not least those from the eastern north against the western south. But against the southern regions toward the east and Egypt, the soldiers stationed for aid and for the guarding of the frontiers will bring the worst evils. The so-called discus, as has been said, was named thus from its shape, so that being circular it is not clear toward what part of the world it seems to look. But when it rises it prophesies common evils for all; and it is assigned to none of the planets, but comes about from the counter-radiance of the sun. It threatens, then, universal tumults and wars from the north, and the destruction of great persons and the prosperity of the cheap and low-born, and it brings danger even to the highest fortunes themselves. And everywhere the armies of the Romans will be diminished, so as to come near to complete destruction. THE COMET TYPHON: this comes about from the reflection of the air; it is sickle-shaped, sluggish, smoky, gloomy. And wherever it looks, there will be universal evils, both foreign and civil wars, heavy, and popular seditions and want of necessities. And illustrious leaders will be slain in wars, especially if it should appear for three or four days. But if it appears longer, it threatens the destruction and overthrow of the whole, and there is no end of evils anywhere. And very many of the Roman army will perish in war, and camps and forts belonging to the Romans will be captured; and the people, in revolt, will come against the rulers themselves. And there will be plague, and no one praying will be heard.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":29,"ref":"p29","source":"καὶ διαδοχαὶ κατάλληλοι τῶν ἀρχόντων ἐξ ἀβελτηρίας τῶν κρατούντων ἔσονται. ἔμπρησμοι δὲ διαφερόντως κάρτα βίαιοι καὶ φονικοὶ ὅλας πόλεις ἀποτεφροῦντες συμβήσονται. καὶ καθολικὰ μὲν ἔσται καὶ ἀνυπόστατα πανταχοῦ τὰ δεινά, τοῖς δὲ δυτικοῖς χείρονα. πόλεμος γὰρ αὐτοῖς ἐκ τῆς ἀνατολῆς δυνατὸς ἐπιπεσεῖται, διχονοούντων δὲ τῶν κινουμένων ἐκ τῆς ἀνατολῆς τὸ πλεῖστον τῆς στρατιᾶς ἀποφθαρήσεται· καὶ στάσεις ἐγερθήσονται τοῖς στρατεύμασι καὶ ἀλλήλοις τὰς\n\nποινὰς ἐπικλώσουσιν αἱ στρατεῖαι. μετ' οὐ πολὺ δὲ αὖθις οἱ νικηταὶ δυστυχήσουσι καὶ διωχθήσονται καὶ ἁπλῶς τοῖς ἁπανταχοῦ κακὰ ἔσται ἐπὶ τοσούτους ἐνιαυτούς, ἐφ' ὅσας ἡμέρας ἡ τοιαύτη διοσημεία φανήσεται.\n\nΟἱ δεισιδαιμονίαις τισὶν ἀναδεδεμένοι–ταύτῃ γὰρ καὶ ῥελεγιῶνες παρ' Ἰταλοῖς καλοῦνται παρὰ τὸ ἀναδεσμεῖν ἀγκύρας δίκην τοὺς πίπτοντας–οὐ τἀληθὲς σκοπεῖν φιλοῦσι, κἂν εἰ τυχόν παρὰ τοῖς μὴ τὰ αὐτὰ δοξάζουσιν ᾖ αὐτοῖς, ἀλλ' ἔχειν νόμον συνεκτικὸν τῆς ἐκείνων δόξης ὑπολαμβάνουσι τὸ μάχεσθαι πρὸς τοὺς ἐναντίους εἰκῇ, καὶ τόδε σχετλιώτερον, ἴσως καὶ αὐτοὶ συναισθανόμενοι τῆς αὐτῶν πλάνης εὐσεβὲς ὅμως νομίζουσιν, εἰ καὶ ψευδόμενοι ταῖς οἰκείαις συμμαχοῖεν πλάναις. οὐ γὰρ ἐπίστανται τὴν φύσιν τῶν εἰκῇ διαβαλλομένων αὐτοῖς, φάσκοντες ὡς ψευδὴς καὶ διάφωνος τοῖς παλαιοῖς ἡ περὶ διοσημειῶν ἐξερεύνησις· καὶ συγγνώμης αὐτοῖς μεταδοτέον....ίαν τῷ παντὶ παρέχουσα· καὶ ὅσα ἁπλῶς ἐν τῷ περὶ γενέσεως καὶ φθορᾶς ὁ φιλόσοφος ἀναφέρει. ὥστε ἀνάγκη πᾶσα τῶν ὑπὸ σελήνην πάντων μὴ μίαν μηδὲ τὴν αὐτὴν εἶναι φύσιν.","english":"And there will be successive rulers suited to one another arising from the stupidity of those in power. And conflagrations of a very violent and deadly kind, beyond the ordinary, will occur, reducing whole cities to ashes. And the calamities will be universal and irresistible everywhere, but worse for the westerners. For a mighty war will fall upon them from the east, and while those setting out from the east are at variance among themselves, the greater part of the army will be destroyed; and seditions will be stirred up among the troops, and the armies will spin out punishments for one another. And not long after, the victors will in turn meet with misfortune and be pursued, and, to put it simply, there will be evils everywhere for as many years as the days on which such a sign appears.\n\nThose who are bound fast by certain superstitions—for this is what the Italians also call religiones, from the binding fast of those who fall, like anchors—are not accustomed to examine the truth, even if it happens to be found among those who do not hold the same opinions as they do, but they suppose they have a law that holds their opinion together: to fight against their opponents at random, and—what is more wretched—perhaps even while they themselves are aware of their own error, they nonetheless think it pious, even if falsely, to ally themselves with their own delusions. For they do not understand the nature of the things that are slanderously imputed to them at random, saying that the investigation of signs is false and discordant with the ancients; and indulgence must be granted them....providing to the whole; and all that the philosopher sets forth simply in On Generation and Corruption. So that it is entirely necessary that all things under the moon do not have one and the same nature.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":30,"ref":"p30","source":"εἰ γὰρ ἀρχὴ γενέσεως καὶ φθορᾶς σελήνη, εἰκός ἐστι μὴ ἀεὶ ὡσαύτως θεωρεῖσθαι τὰ ὑπ' αὐτὴν φυόμενα σύμπαντα. εἰ γὰρ ἔκκεντρος παρὰ τοὺς ἄλλους τῶν πλανωμένων αὕτη, λοξῶς καὶ οὐ πρὸς ὀξὺ τὰ τῶν ἀποτελεσμάτων γίνεται. οἱ μὲν γὰρ κατὰ τοὺς διαπλόκους πόλους τὴν ἐπὶ ταῖς διοσημείαις μαντείαν ἀπευθύνουσιν, ἄλλοι δὲ κατὰ τὰς ἐπιτολὰς ἢ κατὰ τὰς φάσεις· καὶ οὗτοι μὲν πρὸς τὰ ζῴδια τὸν ἥλιον ἐπιτηρήσαντες, ἐκεῖνοι δὲ πρὸς τὰς σεληνιακὰς συνόδους καὶ ἀποστάσεις, ἄλλοι κατὰ φυσικάς τινας ἐπιτηρήσεις. κῆρυξ δὲ τῶν ἀπορρήτων ἡ φύσις. ὥστ' οὐκ ἔξω φρενοβλαβείας μέμφονται ταῖς μεθόδοις δι' ὧν τοῦ μέλλοντος στοχάζεσθαι εἰσαγόμεθα· οὐδὲ τὸ περὶ τὴν τῶν ἀστέρων θεωρίαν διασχολεῖν ἔξω θεοσεβείας ποιεῖ· ἀλλ' ἔτι μᾶλλον τὴν πάνσοφον ἔστι διὰ τῶν ἔργων αὐτῶν θεωρῆσαι πρόνοιαν τοῦ πάντων ἀρρήτου πατρός, καὶ θαυμάσαι τὴν ψυχὴν ἀνθρώπου δύνασθαι ἡγουμένου θεοῦ καὶ περὶ τῶν οὐρανίων, ὡς δυνατόν, διαλέγεσθαι. ταῦτα μὲν οὖν Φούλβιός φησιν, ἐκ τῶν τοῦ Νουμᾶ ἱστορήσας. ἡμεῖς δὲ μετὰ τὰς ἐκ διαφόρων συνειλεγμένας δόξας καὶ τὰς ἐξ ὁμαλοῦ τοῖς παλαιοῖς γραφείσας ὑποθήσομεν, ἐκ τῶν περὶ σελήνης σχηματισμῶν κατὰ τὰ ζῴδια τῆς θεωρίας λαμβάνοντες. Σελήνη ἐν αἰγόκερῳ. ἐὰν κατὰ τὴν διχομηνίαν ἡ σελήνη ἀμυδρὰ φανῇ, εὐθηνία ἔσται. ἐὰν δὲ ἐν τῇ δευτέρᾳ φυλακῇ ὁμοίως ἀμυδρὰ φαίνηται, ἔφοδον πολεμίων σημαίνει. εἰ ας τεκμήριον. εἰ δὲ ἀπειλεῖ. εἰ δὲ ἄστρον διαδράμοι, ἀπώλειαν ἀνθρώπων σημαίνει. ἐὰν δὲ ὁμίχλη γένηται, χάλαζα πεσεῖται. ἐὰν δὲ ἄνεμοι βιαιοτέρως πνεύσωσιν, ἐφόδους πολεμίων φράζουσιν. Σελήνη ἐν ὑδροχόῳ.","english":"For if the moon is the source of generation and corruption, it is likely that all things that grow under it are not always observed in the same way. For since this one is eccentric beyond the other planets, the outcomes of its effects come about obliquely and not sharply. For some direct their divination concerning weather signs by the interwoven poles, others by the risings or by the phases; and these, having observed the sun in relation to the signs of the zodiac, while those observe the moon's conjunctions and separations, and others by certain natural observations. Nature is the herald of secret things. So it is not outside madness that they find fault with the methods by which we are led to conjecture the future; nor does occupying oneself with the observation of the stars place one outside reverence for God; but still more is it possible to observe through their very works the all-wise providence of the ineffable Father of all things, and to marvel that the soul of man, with God as guide, can discourse, as far as is possible, even about heavenly things. These things, then, Fulvius says, having recorded them from the writings of Numa. But we, after the opinions gathered from various sources and those written by the ancients in a uniform manner, will set down what follows, taking our observation from the configurations of the moon in relation to the signs of the zodiac. Moon in Capricorn. If at the full moon the moon appears dim, there will be abundance. But if in the second watch it appears dim in like manner, it signifies an incursion of enemies. If... as a token. But if it threatens. But if a star darts across, it signifies the destruction of men. But if a mist occurs, hail will fall. But if the winds blow more violently, they declare incursions of enemies. Moon in Aquarius.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":31,"ref":"p31","source":"εἰ κατὰ τὴν πρώτην ἢ δευτέραν φυλακὴν ἡ σελήνη ἀμυδρὰ φαίνοιτο, πόλεμος ἔσται· εἰ δὲ κατὰ τὴν ἑωθινήν, εἰρήνην μετὰ ἐλλείψεως τῶν ἐπιτηδείων δηλοῖ. εἰ δὲ σεισμὸς ἢ ἦχος ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ γένηται, νόσους σημαίνει. εἰ δὲ ὁμίχλη γένηται, σίτου καὶ οἴνου δαψίλειαν δηλοῖ. εἰ δὲ παρ' ὅλον τὸν μῆνα ἐπιτείνουσι πνεύματα, ὑετὸς ἥξει. εἰ ὁ Ἕσπερος ἐν τῇ σελήνῃ εἰσέλθῃ, ἴδιοι ἰδίοις δυνατοὶ ἐπιβουλεύσουσιν. εἰ δὲ δόξῃ\n\nἐκλιπεῖν ἡ σελήνη ** σελήνης συνέλθωσι, σίτου ἀφθονία ἔσται. εἰ δὲ ἄστρον ἐκτρέχον ἐπὶ τὸν οὐρανὸν αὐλακίζει, κίνδυνον τοῖς παραλίοις ἀπειλεῖ. Σελήνη ἐν ἰχθύσιν. εἰ ὁ ἥλιος φαύλως ἐκλάμπειν δόξῃ, φθορὰ ἔσται ἀνθρώπων. εἰ δὲ ἐν τῇ πρώτῃ φυλακῇ ἡ σελήνη τὰς κεραίας συνάγῃ, εἰρήνη ἔσται. εἰ δὲ σεισμὸς γένηται, ἀπορίαν σημαίνει τοῖς συναλλάγμασιν. ἐὰν ἄστρον ἐν ἡμέρᾳ φανῇ, ἀνάγκη τὰ κοινὰ περιστήσεται. ἐὰν κεραυνὸς εἰς γῆν πέσῃ, παῦλα τῶν κακῶν. ἐὰν ὁμίχλη εἰς τὴν γῆν πέσῃ, συνοίσει τοῖς καρποῖς.","english":"If the moon appears dim during the first or second watch, there will be war; but if during the morning watch, it signifies peace with a shortage of provisions. If an earthquake or a sound from the sky occurs, it signifies diseases. If a mist occurs, it signifies abundance of grain and wine. If winds intensify throughout the whole month, rain will come. If the Evening Star enters the moon, men of power will plot against their own kind. If the moon seems\n\nto be eclipsed ** they come together with the moon, there will be an abundance of grain. If a star running out across the sky leaves a furrow, it threatens danger to those by the sea. Moon in the Fishes. If the sun seems to shine feebly, there will be destruction of men. If the moon gathers its horns in the first watch, there will be peace. If an earthquake occurs, it signifies scarcity in business dealings. If a star appears by day, necessity will overturn public affairs. If a thunderbolt falls to the earth, a cessation of evils. If a mist falls upon the earth, it will benefit the crops.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":32,"ref":"p32","source":"18 Σελήνη ἐν κριῷ. εἰ ἡ σελήνη ταραχώδης φανῇ, πόλεμοι ἔσονται καὶ ἐπαναστάσεις. εἰ δὲ κατὰ τὴν δευτέραν φυλακὴν ἡ σελήνη αἱματώδης φανῇ, ὁ σῖτος ἔσται ἀφθονώτατος. ἐὰν ὁ Ἕσπερος ἐγγίζῃ τῇ σελήνῃ, πόλεις πόλεσι συρραγήσονται καὶ λιμὸς ἔσται. εἰ νυκτὸς πρηστὴρ κατενεχθείη, βασιλεὺς τοῖς ἑαυτοῦ ἐπιβουλεύσει. εἰ δὲ σεισμὸς γένηται, ἔνδειαν σίτου σημαίνει. εἰ δὲ ἦχος ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ γένηται, οἱ τῆς Εὐρώπης τοῖς τῆς ἄνω Ἀσίας πολεμήσουσιν. ἐὰν ἡ ἀριστερὰ κεραία τῆς σελήνης δόξῃ ὑπερβάλλειν τὴν ἄλλην, αὐχμὸς ἔσται καὶ σίτου ἀπορία. ἐὰν ἐν ἡμέρᾳ πρώτῃ τῆς φωνῆς ἄνεμοι τὸν μῆνα καταπνεύσουσιν. Σελήνη ἐν ταύρῳ. εἰ ἐκλίπῃ ὁ ἥλιος, ἐρήμωσιν ἀπειλεῖ τοῖς ἀνθρώποις. εἰ ἡ σελήνη ἐπὶ τῆς δευτέρας φυλακῆς ταραχώδης φανῇ, φθορὰ ἀνθρώπων ἔσται. εἰ ἡ σελήνη ἐξ ἴσου τὰς κεραίας ἀνίσχουσα ἔχῃ, θόρυβον τῇ βασιλείᾳ ἀπειλεῖ· εἰ δὲ κατὰ τὴν μίαν μόνον ἐξέχῃ, θόρυβοι ἔσονται καὶ φυγαί. εἰ δὲ σεισμὸς γένηται ἀπὸ πρώτης τοῦ μηνὸς ἕως δωδεκάτης, ἀφαίρεσιν τῆς ἀρχῆς τῷ ἡγουμένῳ τοῦ τόπου, ἐφ' οὗ γενήσεται, καὶ φόβον οὐκ ἀκίνδυνον ἀπειλεῖ. εἰ δὲ ἀπὸ δωδεκάτης γένηται, οὐ μόνον ἀποκινεῖται ὁ ἐπιτροπεύων τὸ ἔθνος, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἀπόλλυται. καθολικῶς δέ, ὅποι ἂν σεισμὸς ἀπὸ δεκάτης ἕως τριακοστῆς τοῦδε τοῦ μηνὸς συμβῇ, θορύβους καὶ πολέμους ἀποτελεῖ. εἰ ἀπὸ πρώτης φυλακῆς ἕως ἕκτης σεισμὸς γένηται, πολέμου ἐθνικοῦ κίνησις ἔσται, ὁ δὲ ἡγούμενος τοῦ κινήματος ἀναιρεθήσεται.","english":"Moon in Aries. If the moon appears troubled, there will be wars and uprisings. But if during the second watch the moon appears blood-red, grain will be most abundant. If the Evening Star approaches the moon, cities will clash with cities and there will be famine. If a hurricane descends at night, the king will plot against his own people. If an earthquake occurs, it signifies a shortage of grain. If a sound from the sky occurs, the peoples of Europe will make war on those of upper Asia. If the left horn of the moon seems to exceed the other, there will be drought and a scarcity of grain. If on the first day of the month winds blow through the month. Moon in Taurus. If the sun is eclipsed, it threatens desolation for mankind. If the moon appears troubled during the second watch, there will be destruction of men. If the moon rises holding its horns equal, it threatens turmoil for the kingdom; but if it projects only one, there will be turmoils and flights. If an earthquake occurs from the first of the month to the twelfth, it threatens the removal of rule for the leader of the place in which it occurs, and a fear not without danger. But if it occurs from the twelfth, not only is the governor of the nation removed, but he also perishes. And generally, wherever an earthquake happens from the tenth to the thirtieth of this month, it produces turmoils and wars. If an earthquake occurs from the first watch to the sixth, there will be a stirring of national war, and the leader of the movement will be killed.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":33,"ref":"p33","source":"Σελήνη ἐν διδύμοις. εἰ ἔκλειψις γένηται ἡλιακή, μεταβολὴ ἔσται καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν πραγμάτων ἕτεροι ἔσονται. εἰ δὲ τῆς πρώτης φυλακῆς ἐκλίπῃ ἡ σελήνη, ἀκρίδες ἔσονται· εἰ δὲ ταραχώδης φανῇ, πόλεις πρὸς πόλεις καταφεύξονται. ἐὰν ὁ τῆς Ἀφροδίτης ἀστὴρ ταραχώδης γένηται, ἀνθρώπων φθορὰ ἔσται. ἐὰν νυκτὸς ἀστὴρ πέσῃ, κακῶν σημεῖον, ὥσπερ εἰ ἐν ἡμέρᾳ ὀφθῇ. ἐὰν πρηστὴρ πέσῃ, θόρυβος ἔσται ταῖς πόλεσι ταῖς πρὸς τὴν ἀνατολήν. εἰ σεισμὸς γένηται, χάσματα τοπικὰ ἔσται. ἐὰν ὁμίχλη πυκνωθεῖσα εἰς γῆν πέσῃ, σῖτος ἔσται πολύς. εἰ ὁ ἥλιος αἱματώδης γένηται, ἀποβολὴ ἔσται ἀνθρώπων. ἐὰν πνεῦμα ἐξαίσιον πνεύσῃ ἐπὶ ἑπτὰ ἡμέρας, σῖτος ἔσται πολύς. ἐὰν ἀπὸ νεομηνίας ἕως ἐννάτης τοῦ μηνὸς τούτου σεισμὸς γένηται, φθορὰν ἀνθρώπων ἀπειλεῖ. εἰ δὲ ἀπὸ ἐννάτης ἕως δεκαεννάτης σεισμὸς γένηται, ὁ κρα τῶν τῶν πραγμάτων κάκιστα διαγενήσεται, ἔσται δὲ καὶ λιμὸς τοῖς κτήνεσι καὶ ὕδατος λεῖψις. εἰ ἀπὸ εἰκοστῆς σεισμὸς γένηται, ταπείνωσιν τοῖς διὰ λόγων ἀπειλεῖ, τῷ δὲ τόπῳ ἐναλλαγὴν ἄρχοντος. εἰ ἀπὸ εἰκοστῆς πέμπτης ἕως τριακοστῆς σεισμὸς γένηται, χειμῶνας μεγάλους σημαίνει, καὶ πόλεμος ἔσται καὶ ἀπόπτωσις ἄρχοντος κλεινοῦ. εἰ ἐπὶ τῆς τριακάδος σεισμὸς γένηται, χειμῶνας μεγάλους σημαίνει. Σελήνη ἐν καρκίνῳ. εἰ ἡ σελήνη ἀμυδρὰ ὀφθείη, στράτευμα ἀλλότριον ἐπὶ τὴν βασιλέως ἥξει χώραν. ἐὰν ἦχος ἐκ τῆς γῆς γένηται, τύραννος ἀναιρεθήσεται. ἐὰν κεραυνὸς πέσῃ εἰς γῆν, πόλεις παράλιοι ἐρημωθήσονται καὶ ἀπορία ἔσται ἀνθρώπων. ἐὰν ἡ σελήνη αἱματώδης φανῇ, ἄνδρες δυνατοὶ κακοδαιμονήσουσιν·","english":"Moon in Gemini. If a solar eclipse occurs, there will be a change, and affairs will take a different turn. If the moon is eclipsed during the first watch, there will be locusts; but if it appears troubled, cities will flee against cities. If the star of Aphrodite becomes troubled, there will be destruction of men. If a star falls at night, it is a sign of evils, just as if it be seen by day. If a fireball falls, there will be tumult for the cities toward the east. If an earthquake occurs, there will be local chasms. If a mist thickens and falls upon the earth, grain will be abundant. If the sun becomes blood-red, there will be loss of men. If an extraordinary wind blows for seven days, grain will be abundant. If an earthquake occurs from the new moon until the ninth of this month, it threatens destruction of men. But if an earthquake occurs from the ninth until the nineteenth, the ruler of affairs will fare most wretchedly, and there will be famine for the cattle and a lack of water. If an earthquake occurs from the twentieth, it threatens humiliation for those in public life, and for the place a change of ruler. If an earthquake occurs from the twenty-fifth until the thirtieth, it signifies great storms, and there will be war and the downfall of a renowned ruler. If an earthquake occurs on the thirtieth, it signifies great storms. Moon in Cancer. If the moon appears dim, a foreign army will come against the king's land. If a sound arises from the earth, a tyrant will be slain. If a thunderbolt falls to the earth, coastal cities will be laid waste and there will be scarcity of men. If the moon appears blood-red, powerful men will be unfortunate.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":34,"ref":"p34","source":"ἐὰν ἡ σελήνη ἐξ ἴσου ἔχῃ τὰς κεραίας, εἰρήνη ἔσται καὶ εὐθηνία· εἰ δὲ ὑπερέχῃ ἡ ἑτέρα τὴν ἑτέραν, ὕδατος ἔσται λείψις. εἰ σεισμὸς γένηται ἀπὸ\n\nπρωῒ ἕως μεσημβρίας, θεοχολωσίαν ἀπειλεῖ· εἰ ἀπὸ ἕκτης ἡμέρας ἕως τριακάδος σεισμὸς γένηται, τοῖς μὲν πρωτεύουσι τῆς χώρας μετανάστασιν, τοῖς δὲ λοιποῖς θόρυβον ἀπειλεῖ. εἰ δὲ ἀπὸ πρώτης φυλακῆς τῆς νυκτὸς ἕως τρίτης ἀρχομένης σεισμὸς γένηται, τοῖς μὲν διὰ λόγων ὀφθεῖσιν ἀτιμίαν ἀπειλεῖ, τοῖς δὲ βιβλίοις φθορὰν καὶ τοῖς περὶ τὴν ἀνατολὴν πολέμους. Σελήνη ἐν λέοντι. εἰ ὁ ἥλιος ἀμαυρὸς γενήσεται, μέγας ἀνὴρ ἀπολεῖται, ἐπὶ δὲ τῶν πραγμάτων ἕτερος ἔσται ἀρχικώτερος. εἰ ἡ σελήνη ἀμαυρὰ γένηται τῇ ἑωθινῇ φυλακῇ, στράτευμα ἀλλότριον ἐπελεύσεται τῇ τοῦ βασιλέως χώρᾳ. ἐὰν σεισμὸς γένηται, θόρυβος ἔσται καὶ ἀνδρὸς δυνατοῦ ἀναίρεσις. εἰ κεραυνὸς πεσεῖται, πόλεις παράλιοι ἐρημωθήσονται. εἰ ἡ σελήνη αἱματοειδὴς φανῇ, ἀπώλειαν δυνατῶν δηλοῖ. εἰ ἄνεμος σφοδρὸς πνεύσῃ, τῇ χώρᾳ συνοίσει. ἐὰν ὁμίχλη πέσῃ, ἀνάγκη συμπεσεῖται ἀνδρὶ μεγάλῳ. ἐὰν σεισμὸς γένηται ἀπὸ νουμηνίας ἕως δεκάτης, φόνους καὶ στενώσεις καὶ φθορὰν τῶν κτηνῶν ἀπειλεῖ ἢ λιμόν, μεταλλάξει δὲ καὶ ὁ ἡγούμενος τῆς χώρας. εἰ ἀπὸ δεκάτης ἕως τριακοστῆς σεισμὸς γένηται, σημαίνει μὲν ταραχὰς καὶ φυγάς, ἐλπίδα δὲ ἀγαθῶν. εἰ σεισμὸς γένηται νύκτα παρ' ἀμφιλύκην\"2, πρὸς μὲν βραχὺ ἀγαθὰ ἔσται, ἀκολουθήσει δὲ τὰ πάντων ἀλγεινότατα. Σελήνη ἐν παρθένῳ. εἰ ὁ ἥλιος ἐρυθρὸς γένηται, σύμμαχοι ἀποστήσονται. εἰ ἡ σελήνη ἀμαυρὰ γένηται τῇ πρώτῃ φυλακῇ, φθορὰ κτηνῶν ἔσται.","english":"If the moon has its horns equal, there will be peace and prosperity; but if the one exceeds the other, there will be a scarcity of water. If an earthquake occurs from morning until midday, it threatens the wrath of God; if an earthquake occurs from the sixth day until the thirtieth, it threatens the leading men of the country with migration, and the rest with turmoil. But if an earthquake occurs from the first watch of the night until the beginning of the third, it threatens dishonor to those who are esteemed for their words, and destruction to books, and wars to the regions of the east. Moon in Leo. If the sun becomes dim, a great man will perish, and in affairs another will be more authoritative. If the moon becomes dim in the morning watch, a foreign army will come against the king's country. If an earthquake occurs, there will be turmoil and the destruction of a powerful man. If a thunderbolt falls, coastal cities will be laid waste. If the moon appears blood-red, it signifies the destruction of the powerful. If a violent wind blows, it will benefit the country. If a mist falls, a necessity will befall a great man. If an earthquake occurs from the new moon until the tenth, it threatens slaughters and straits and destruction of cattle or famine, and the leader of the country will also change. If an earthquake occurs from the tenth until the thirtieth, it signifies disturbances and flights, but hope of good things. If an earthquake occurs at night about twilight, there will be good things for a short time, but the most painful of all things will follow. Moon in Virgo. If the sun becomes red, allies will revolt. If the moon becomes dim in the first watch, there will be destruction of cattle.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":35,"ref":"p35","source":"εἰ τῇ ἑωθινῇ φυλακῇ τὸ αὐτὸ γένηται, μέγας ἀνὴρ ἀπολεῖται. εἰ ὁ τῆς Ἀφροδίτης ἀστὴρ πλησίον τῇ σελήνῃ γένηται, πολέμους ἐμφυλίους ἀπειλεῖ. εἰ πρηστὴρ πέσῃ, αἱ παράλιοι πόλεις ἀφανισθήσονται. εἰ ἀπὸ γῆς ἦχος γένηται, πόλεμον τοῖς παραλίοις ἀπειλεῖ. εἰ σελήνης ἀνισχούσης αἱ κεραῖαι αὐτῆς ἀλλήλαις πλησιάσωσι, κατομβρίαν δηλοῖ εἰς ἀπώλειαν καρπῶν. εἰ ἐκλίπῃ ἡ σελήνη, μέγας ἀνὴρ ἀπολεῖται. εἰ σεισμὸς γένηται, ἀνθρώπων φθορὰν ἀπειλεῖ. εἰ ἐν ἡμέρᾳ ἀστέρες φανῶσιν, ἀναίρεσις ἔσται ἀνθρώπων. εἰ ἄνεμος βίαιος πνεύσῃ, εἰρήνην παρ' ὅλον τὸν ἐνιαυτὸν δηλοῖ. εἰ σεισμὸς γένηται ἀπὸ νουμηνίας ἕως ἑβδόμης, εὐθηνίαν, ἅμα δὲ καὶ βίαιον θάνατον προσδοκητέον καὶ Περσῶν ἔφοδον. εἰ ἀπὸ ὀγδόης ἕως δεκάτης σεισμὸς γένηται, ἔνδειαν σίτου ἀπειλεῖ. εἰ σεισμὸς γένηται νυκτός, φθορὰν τῶν πρωτευόντων τοῦ ἔθνους καὶ ἀλλοίωσιν τῶν πραγμάτων ἀπειλεῖ. εἰ πολλάκις γένηται σάλος, ταραχὰς καθολικὰς προλέγει καὶ τῶν δυναστῶν μετάπτωσιν. Σελήνη ἐν ζυγῷ. εἰ ὁ οὐρανὸς ταραχώδης γένηται ἐπὶ τῆς πρώτης φυλακῆς τῆς νυκτός, λιμὸν ἀπειλεῖ· εἰ δὲ ἐπὶ δευτέρας, δυτικαὶ πόλεις αἰχμαλωτισθήσονται· εἰ δὲ ἐπὶ τῆς ἑωθινῆς, λικμητὸν ἀνθρώποις ἀπειλεῖ. εἰ ἦχος ἀπὸ τῆς γῆς γένηται, φθόνους ἀπειλεῖ. εἰ πρηστὴρ πέσῃ, παλαιαὶ πόλεις ἐρημωθήσονται. εἰ ὁ Ἕσπερος ὑπὸ τῆς σελήνης διέλθῃ, ἀνὴρ δυνατὸς ἀναιρεθήσεται. εἰ παρὰ πάντα τὸν μῆνα βίαιος ἄνεμος ῥεύσῃ, ταραχὰς ἀπειλεῖ. εἰ σεισμὸς ἀπὸ νουμηνίας ἕως δεκάτης γένηται, φθορὰ κτηνῶν ἔσται καὶ πτῶσις τοῦ ἡγουμένου τῆς χώρας· εἰ δὲ ἀπὸ ἑνδεκάτης ἕως ˉλ, προνομὴν ἀπειλεῖ τῆς χώρας.","english":"If the same occurs in the morning watch, a great man will perish. If the star of Aphrodite comes near the moon, it threatens civil wars. If a hurricane falls, the coastal cities will be destroyed. If a sound comes from the earth, it threatens war for the coastal peoples. If, when the moon is rising, its horns approach one another, it indicates heavy rain to the destruction of crops. If the moon is eclipsed, a great man will perish. If an earthquake occurs, it threatens the destruction of men. If stars appear by day, there will be a removal of men. If a violent wind blows, it indicates peace for the whole year. If an earthquake occurs from the new moon until the seventh, one must expect prosperity, but at the same time violent death and an invasion of the Persians. If an earthquake occurs from the eighth until the tenth, it threatens a scarcity of grain. If an earthquake occurs at night, it threatens the destruction of the leading men of the nation and a change of affairs. If a tossing occurs frequently, it foretells universal disturbances and the downfall of rulers. Moon in Libra. If the sky becomes turbulent in the first watch of the night, it threatens famine; but if in the second, the western cities will be taken captive; but if in the morning watch, it threatens a winnowing for men. If a sound comes from the earth, it threatens jealousies. If a hurricane falls, ancient cities will be laid waste. If Hesperus passes beneath the moon, a powerful man will be killed. If a violent wind flows throughout the whole month, it threatens disturbances. If an earthquake occurs from the new moon until the tenth, there will be destruction of cattle and the fall of the leader of the country; but if from the eleventh until the thirtieth, it threatens a plundering of the country.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":36,"ref":"p36","source":"Σελήνη ἐν σκορπίῳ. εἰ κατὰ τὴν πρώτην τῆς νυκτὸς φυλακὴν αἱματώδης ἡ σελήνη φανῇ, ἀνταρσίαν καὶ ἑτέρου προαγωγὴν δηλοῖ. εἰ ὁμιχλάνῃ ὁ ἀὴρ ἢ ἐπὶ γῆς ῥίψῃ τὴν ἀχλύν, φθορὰ ἔσται σίτου. εἰ δὲ διάττῃ ἀστήρ, φθορὰν σίτου καὶ ἀνθρώπων ἀπειλεῖ, ὅταν μέντοι ἀπὸ ἀνατολῶν εἰς δυσμὰς ἐκτρέχῃ. εἰ δὲ ἦχος ἐκ τῆς γῆς γένηται, φυγὴν ἀπειλεῖ. εἰ δὲ αἱ κεραῖαι τῆς σελήνης συμπέσωσι, σῖτος μὲν ἔσται πολύς, τετραπόδων δὲ θάνατος καὶ θηρίων ἔσται. εἰ σεισμὸς γένηται, ἀνὴρ ἀπολεῖται μέγας. εἰ δ' ὁ Ἕσπερος ἐγγίσῃ τῆς σελήνης, θόρυβοι ἔσονται. Σελήνη ἐν τοξότῃ. εἰ ἡ σελήνη αἱματώδης φανῇ, πόλεις μεγάλαι ἀνάστατοι ἔσονται. εἰ ἡ σελήνη ἀμαυρὰ γένηται κατὰ τὴν πρώτην φυλακὴν ἢ κατὰ τὴν μεσομηνίαν, οἱ περὶ τὰ βασίλεια ταραχθήσονται· εἰ δὲ κατὰ τὴν δευτέραν φυλακήν, τοῖς ἐν θαλάσσαις πόλεμον δηλοῖ· εἰ δὲ τῇ ἑωθινῇ, ἀνὴρ δυνατὸς\n\nὑπὸ βασιλέως ταραχθήσεται. εἰ κατὰ τὸν αὐτὸν καιρὸν ἡ σελήνη αἱματώδης φανῇ, σφαγὰς ἀπειλεῖ. εἰ πνεῦμα βίαιον παρ' ὅλον πνεύσῃ τὸν μῆνα, ἄνδρες μεγάλοι ἀπολοῦνται. εἰ ἀστὴρ διάττοι ἀπὸ τοῦ νότου ἐπὶ τὸν βορρᾶν, οὐ μόνον αὐτὸν πνεῦσαι τὸν νότον, ἀλλὰ καὶ πόλεμον τοῖς ἐπιθαλασσίοις δηλοῖ. εἰ ὁμίχλη πέσῃ εἰς τὴν γῆν, βλαβερὸν τῷ σπόρῳ. εἰ ἐκλείψῃ ἡ σελήνη, φθορὰ ὑποζυγίων ἔσται. εἰ ἦχος ἐκ τῆς γῆς γένηται, ἀνθρώπων φυγὴ ἔσται. εἰ αἱ κεραῖαι τῆς σελήνης συμπέσωσι, σῖτος ἔσται πολὺς καὶ θάνατος τετραπόδων καὶ φθίσις ἀνθρώπων.","english":"The moon in Scorpio. If in the first watch of the night the moon appears blood-red, it signifies sedition and the advancement of another. If the air becomes misty or it casts its gloom upon the earth, there will be destruction of grain. If a star darts across, it threatens destruction of grain and of men, whenever it runs from east to west. If a sound comes from the earth, it threatens flight. If the horns of the moon fall together, there will be much grain, but there will be death of four-footed beasts and of wild animals. If an earthquake occurs, a great man will perish. If Hesperos comes near the moon, there will be disturbances. The moon in Sagittarius. If the moon appears blood-red, great cities will be overthrown. If the moon becomes dim in the first watch or at the middle of the month, those about the palace will be thrown into confusion; if in the second watch, it signifies war for those at sea; if in the morning watch, a powerful man will be thrown into confusion by the king. If at the same time the moon appears blood-red, it threatens slaughters. If a violent wind blows throughout the whole month, great men will perish. If a star darts from the south to the north, it signifies not only that the south wind itself will blow, but also war for the coastal peoples. If mist falls upon the earth, it is harmful to the seed. If the moon is eclipsed, there will be destruction of beasts of burden. If a sound comes from the earth, there will be flight of men. If the horns of the moon fall together, there will be much grain and death of four-footed beasts and wasting away of men.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":37,"ref":"p37","source":"2122 ΠΕΡΙ ΒΡΟΝΤΩΝ Πολλῶν καὶ ὑπὲρ ἀριθμὸν ὄντων ὅσα τοῖς φυσικοῖς περὶ βροντῶν ἐδόκει, κέκριται συμβαίνειν αὐτὰς ἀπορρηγνυμένων τῶν νεφῶν καὶ ἐπικυλιομένων ἑαυτοῖς κινήσει σφοδρᾷ, τῇ τε προσρήξει ἐξαπτομένων εἰς ἀστραπὰς καὶ ἤχους κάρτα βιαίους, ἀλλοιοῦσθαι δὲ τὸν ἀνάμεσον τῆς ὑπηνέμου ζώνης καὶ τῆς γῆς ἀέρα. Χαλδαῖοί γε μὴν δυνάμεων ἀερίων εἶναι φωνὰς μὲν τὰς βροντάς φασι, δρόμους δὲ τὰς ἀστραπάς. τῷ δὲ Ἐπικούρῳ ἀπὸ ξηρᾶς ὀγκώσεως ἐκ τῆς γῆς, εἶτα ἐγκλειομένης τοῖς ὄρεσι, δίκην τῶν ἐν τοῖς σώμασιν ὄγκων, οὔπω διεξόδου τυχόντων, στρόφους καὶ τροχώσεις ἐμποιοῦσι τῷ κατ' αὐτὸν λεγομένῳ κενῷ· οὐδὲ γὰρ δυνάμεων εἶναι πλήρη τὸν ἀνάμεσον οὐρανοῦ καὶ τῆς γῆς δίδωσι χῶρον κατὰ τοὺς Πυθαγορείους. καὶ ἀληθῆ ἀξιοῖ λέγειν τῷ μὴ καθ' ἑτέραν ἢ κατὰ τὴν θερινὸν ὡς ἐκ τοῦ πλείονος ὥραν βροντὰς ἐπιρρήγνυσθαι, καὶ διαφερόντως ἐκδίδοσθαι ξηροτέρας, ἡνίκα βαθείας οὔσης τῆς ἐν τῷ μέσῳ χώρας ὄρεσιν ὑψηλοῖς ὁ τόπος ἐγκλείοιτο. καὶ ἅμα μὲν οὖν αὐτοῖν ἑκάτερον γίνεται, ἥ τε βροντὴ ἥ τε ἀστραπή· ἐπειδὴ δὲ ὀξυτέρα τῆς ἀκοῆς ἡ ὄψις τῷ θᾶττον ἐπὶ πᾶν ἐκτείνεσθαι, πρώτην ὁρᾶσθαι πολλάκις συμβαίνει τὴν ἀστραπήν. Πᾶσα δὲ βροντή, καὶ τούτων αἱ μετέωροι καὶ διηχέσταται μάλιστα, σημαίνουσί τι, καὶ διαφερόντως αἱ ἐκ τοῦ ἀριστεροῦ μέρους τοῦ κόσμου· τοῦτο δ' ἂν εἴη τὸ νότιον αἱ γὰρ πρὸς νότου εἰσὶ θειότεραι κατὰ τὸν ποιητήν, ἐπεὶ καὶ πρὸς τοῦ τῆς γῆς ἐφόρου ἐπιτροπεύεται, ὡς Αἰγυπτίοις δοκεῖ, τοῦ Κρόνου λέγω, ὥσπερ τὸ βόρειον ὑπὸ τοῦ τῆς γενέσεως αἰτίου·","english":"CONCERNING THUNDER. Since the opinions of the natural philosophers concerning thunder are many and beyond number, it has been judged that they occur when the clouds are rent asunder and rolled upon one another with violent motion, and by their collision are kindled into lightning and exceedingly violent sounds, and that the air between the windy zone and the earth is altered. The Chaldeans, at any rate, say that thunders are the voices of aerial powers and lightnings their courses. But to Epicurus they arise from a dry swelling out of the earth, then enclosed by the mountains, like the swellings in bodies which, not yet having found an outlet, produce twistings and rollings in what he calls the void; for he does not allow that the space between heaven and earth is full of powers, as the Pythagoreans hold. And he claims to speak the truth in that thunders burst forth not at any other season but for the most part in summer, and are discharged especially dry, whenever, the region in the middle being deep, the place is enclosed by high mountains. And at one and the same time, then, each of the two occurs, both the thunder and the lightning; but since sight is sharper than hearing because it extends more swiftly to everything, it often happens that the lightning is seen first. Every thunder, and especially those on high and most widely resounding, signifies something, and particularly those from the left part of the world; and this would be the southern part, for those from the south are more divine, according to the poet, since it is also governed by the overseer of the earth, as seems good to the Egyptians—I mean Cronus—just as the northern part is governed by the cause of generation.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":38,"ref":"p38","source":"ὅθεν καὶ πρὸς νότον τὰ ἱερὰ ἀπευθύνεσθαι Ἑβραίοις καὶ Αἰγυπτίοις δοκεῖ. τὰ δὴ οὖν χρησιμώτατα τῶν περὶ τούτου θεωρημάτων καταμαθὼν καὶ τῶν κιβδήλων ἐκκαθάρας τὴν θεωρίαν ὑποθήσω τῷ λόγῳ· ποικίλης γε μὴν οὔσης καὶ πολυσχιδοῦς τῆς θεωρίας, τέως χρειῶδες διαρθρῶσαι τὴν παράδοσιν. Οἱ μὲν δὴ παλαιοὶ τῶν περὶ ταῦτα σπουδαίων πρὸς τὴν σελήνην καὶ τὰς ἐν αὐτῇ φάσεις τὸν περὶ βροντῶν σκοπὸν ἀπευθύνουσιν, ἐπεὶ καὶ μᾶλλον ἐπιβέβηκεν αὕτη τῷ γένει τῷ παντὶ καὶ πάντα προσεχῶς διοικεῖται δι' αὐτῆς, ὅθεν καὶ Τύχη πρός τινων καὶ Πρόνοια λέγεται· οἱ δὲ Αἰγύπτιοι πρὸς ἥλιον καὶ τοὺς τῶν ἐν οὐρανῷ ζῳδίων οἴκους τὸν στοχασμὸν ἁρμόζειν διισχυρίζονται. καὶ οἱ μὲν καθ' ἑκάστην ἡμέραν τοῦ ἡλιακοῦ μηνός, οἱ δὲ ὡσαύτως ἐφήμερον τὸν σεληνιακὸν μῆνα διαλαμβάνουσι. καὶ οὗτοι μὲν πρὸς τὰ ζῴδια τὸν ἥλιον, ἐκεῖνοι δὲ τὴν σελήνην ἀνιχνεύουσιν. ὥστε χρειῶδες πάντων ἀνὰ μέρος καὶ μὴ ὑφ' ἓν ἐπιμνησθῆναι, καὶ πρῶτον τῶν ἡλιακῶν σημείων· δεῖ γὰρ τὸν ἥλιον κάλλει καὶ δυνάμει τὴν πᾶσαν διακόσμησιν ἀναβεβηκότα καὶ τοσούτῳ κρείττονα τῶν αἰσθητῶν, ὅσῳ τἀγαθὸν τῶν νοητῶν, κἀνταῦθα τὰ πρῶτα λαβεῖν.","english":"Hence it also seems to the Hebrews and Egyptians that their sacred rites are directed toward the south. Having therefore learned the most useful of the observations concerning this matter and having purged the theory of its counterfeit elements, I shall set it forth in my account. Since, however, the theory is varied and many-branched, it is for the present useful to set out the tradition in order. The ancients among those who devoted themselves to these matters direct their inquiry concerning thunder toward the moon and the phases in it, since this body has the greater sway over the whole race and all things are governed directly through it, whence it is also called by some Fortune and Providence. The Egyptians, however, insist on fitting their conjecture to the sun and the houses of the signs in the heaven. And some take the solar month day by day, while others likewise take the lunar month day by day. And the latter track the sun to the signs, the former the moon. So that it is useful to mention all in turn and not all at once, and first the solar signs; for the sun, which in beauty and power has ascended above the whole order of the universe and is as much greater than the things perceived by sense as the good is greater than the things perceived by intellect, must here too receive the first place.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":39,"ref":"p39","source":"Ὁ ἥλιος ἐν αἰγοκέρωτι μηνὶ Ἰανουαρίῳ. τοῦ ἡλίου πρὸς αἰγόκερων παριόντος, εἰ βροντὴν ἐπιρραγῆναι συμβαίη, ἀχλὺς ἔσται παχεῖα καὶ καπνώδης, ὡς ἀώρους τοὺς καρποὺς ἐναπομαρανθῆναι τοῖς φυτοῖς, καὶ ἄποιος ὁ οἶνος. εἰ δὲ μέχρι τῆς ἐπιτολῆς τοῦ κυνὸς ἡ ἀχλὺς ἐπιμένοι, ἐπίνοσος ὁ ἐνιαυτὸς ἔσται καὶ σίτου ἐνδεής. διαφερόντως δὲ ταῦτα συμβήσεται ἐπί τε Μακεδονίας, Θρᾴκης, Ἰλλυρίδος καὶ τῆς ἄνω Ἰνδικῆς, Ἀριανῆς τε καὶ Γεδρωσίας· καὶ γὰρ αὗται ὑπὸ τὸν αἰγόκερων. ταραχαὶ δὲ καὶ φόβοι τοῖς θήλεσι τῶν ζῴων, λογικῶν τε καὶ ἀλόγων, ἐπιγενήσονται, ὅτι θῆλυ ζῴδιον ὁ αἰγόκερως. Ὁ ἥλιος ἐν ὑδροχόῳ μηνὶ Φεβρουαρίῳ. τοῦ ἡλίου ἐπὶ ὑδροχόον ἰόντος εἰ βροντὴν γενέσθαι συμβαίη, Σαυρομάταις, Ὀξιανοῖς, Σογδιανοῖς, Ἀραβίᾳ μικρᾷ, Ἀζανίᾳ μέσῃ, Αἰθιοπίᾳ ὑδροχόῳ δὲ ἀνάκεινται αὗται αἱ χῶραι ἀφθονίαν μὲν τοῦ σίτου διασημαίνει, πτῶσιν δὲ ἀνδρῶν ἐνδόξων ἐν ταῖς εἰρημέναις διαφαινομένων χώραις, καὶ οὐκ ἀνδρῶν μόνον ἀλλὰ καὶ τῶν ἐν τοῖς ἄλλοις ζῴοις ἀρσενικῶν, ὅτι ἄρρεν ζῴδιον ὁ ὑδροχόος. Ὁ ἥλιος ἐν ἰχθύσι μηνὶ Μαρτίῳ. τοῦ ἡλίου ἐν ἰχθύσι γενομένου εἰ τυχὸν ἐν ἡμέρᾳ βροντὴ γένηται, ὁ ἄμητος ἔσται γεννημάτων ἀφθονώτατος, οἵ τε ὑγροὶ καρποὶ οὐχ ἥκιστα ἐπιδώσουσιν ἐπί τε τῆς καθ' ἡμᾶς Λυδίας, Κιλικίας, Παμφυλίας, Φαζανίας, Νασαμωνίτιδος καὶ Γαραμαντικῆς καὶ γὰρ ὑπὸ τοῖς ἰχθύσιν αἱ χῶραι. τὰ δὲ θήλεα τῶν ζῴων ἀπὸ λογικῶν ἕως ἀλόγων σκυθρωπάσει, ὅτι θῆλυ ζῴδιον οἱ ἰχθύες. Ὁ ἥλιος ἐν κριῷ μηνὶ Ἀπριλίῳ.","english":"The sun in Capricorn, in the month of January. As the sun passes toward Capricorn, if it happens that thunder bursts forth, there will be a thick and smoky mist, so that the fruits wither on the plants out of season, and the wine will be tasteless. And if the mist persists until the rising of the Dog Star, the year will be sickly and short of grain. These things will happen especially in Macedonia, Thrace, Illyria, and upper India, Aria, and Gedrosia; for these regions too lie under Capricorn. Disturbances and fears will come upon the females of living creatures, both rational and irrational, because Capricorn is a female sign. The sun in Aquarius, in the month of February. As the sun goes into Aquarius, if it happens that thunder occurs, for the Sauromatae, the Oxianoi, the Sogdians, small Arabia, middle Azania, and Ethiopia—for these lands are assigned to Aquarius—it signifies abundance of grain, but a fall of illustrious men appearing in the said lands, and not of men only but also of the males among the other living creatures, because Aquarius is a male sign. The sun in Pisces, in the month of March. If, when the sun is in Pisces, thunder happens to occur by day, the harvest will be most abundant in produce, and the moist fruits will yield no less in our own Lydia, Cilicia, Pamphylia, Phazania, the Nasamonitis, and the Garamantike; for these lands too are under Pisces. But the females of living creatures, from rational down to irrational, will be gloomy, because Pisces is a female sign. The sun in Aries, in the month of April.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":40,"ref":"p40","source":"τοῦ ἡλίου ἐπὶ τὸν κριὸν ἀνιόντος εἰ βροντὴν γενέσθαι συμβαίη ἀλλὰ μὴ βροχὴν ἐπακολουθῆσαι, ἐπὶ Βρεταννίας, Γαλατίας, Γερμανίας, Βασταρνῶν, Συρίας κοίλης, Ἰουδαίας, Ἰδουμαίας πτῶσις ἀνθρώπων ἔσται θόρυβοί τε κατὰ πόλεις καὶ πνιγμοὶ καὶ αὐχμοὶ καὶ τῶν φυτῶν ἀκαρπία, καὶ διαφερόντως τῶν ἀρρενωπῶν, ὅτι ἄρρεν ζῴδιον ὁ κριός. Ὁ ἥλιος ἐν ταύρῳ μηνὶ Μαΐῳ. κατὰ τοῦτο τοῦ καιροῦ εἰ βροντὴν ἐπιτροχάσαι συμβαίη, ἔνδειαν τῶν ἐπιτηδείων προσδοκητέον, οὐχ ἥκιστα δὲ τὰ ἀκρόδρυα ἀποτεύξεται· καὶ γὰρ ἁπαλὰ καὶ ὡς πρὸς τοὺς ἄλλους καρποὺς μαλακώτατα. οὐδὲν δὲ ἧττον καὶ πόλεις αἱ πρὸς τῇ θαλάττῃ πολεμίοις παραστήσονται, ἐπί τε τῶν Κυκλάδων καὶ τῶν παραλίων τῆς μικρᾶς Ἀσίας καὶ γὰρ Ἀφροδίτης ἡ θάλαττα, Κύπρου, Μηδίας τε καὶ Περσίδος αὐτῆς, ἐπεὶ καὶ μαλακώτερα τὰ ἔθνη, ὅτι θῆλυ ζῴδιον ὁ ταῦρος. ταύτῃ γὰρ καὶ ταῦρος Εὐρώπης ἐρασθῆναι λέγεται, ὅτι τοῦ ἀνατολικοῦ κέντρου ὑπὸ κριῷ, ἔστι δ' ὅπου καὶ πρὸ αὐτοῦ, νέους ὁρῶντος καρποὺς μόλις Εὐρώπη ὑπὸ τῷ ταύρῳ βλέπει. Μηνὶ Ἰουνίῳ. εἰ ἐν διδύμοις τοῦ ἡλίου ὄντος βροντὴν γενέσθαι συμβαίη, ὑγρῶν μὲν καὶ ξηρῶν καρπῶν ἀφθονίαν ἐλπιστέον, ἀνδρὸς δὲ δυνατοῦ ἀθρόαν ἀπόπτωσιν. Ὑρκανία δὲ καὶ Ἀρμενίαι δύο, Ἀμαδιανή, Μαρμαρική, Αἴγυπτος ἡ κάτω παρὰ τὰς ἄλλας χώρας ἀτυχήσουσι, καὶ διαφερόντως περὶ τοὺς ἄνδρας· καὶ γὰρ ἀρσενικὸν ζῴδιον οἱ δίδυμοι καὶ ἀνθρωποειδὲς καὶ φίλιον. Μηνὶ Ἰουλίῳ. ὅτι μὲν ὁ μὴν Κουϊντίλιος οὗτος τὸ πρὶν ὠνομάζετο, πρὸς δὲ τιμῆς Ἰουλίου Καίσαρος εἰς ταύτην μετετέθη τὴν προσηγορίαν, εἰς πλάτος ἡμῖν εἴρηται ἐν τῇ περὶ Μηνῶν πραγματείᾳ.","english":"When the sun is rising into Aries, if it happens that thunder occurs but no rain follows, there will be a falling of men in Britain, Galatia, Germania, among the Bastarnae, in Coele Syria, Judaea, and Idumaea, and tumults in cities, and suffocations and droughts and barrenness of plants, and especially of things of male aspect, because the ram is a male animal. The sun in Taurus, in the month of May. At this season, if it happens that thunder runs along, a scarcity of provisions is to be expected, and not least the tree-fruits will fail; for they are tender and, compared with other fruits, very soft. None the less, cities by the sea will also be delivered over to enemies, in the Cyclades and the coastal regions of Asia Minor; for the sea is Aphrodite's, and Cyprus, Media, and Persia itself, since those peoples are also softer, because the bull is a female animal. For this reason the bull is said to have loved Europa, because, when the eastern pivot is under the ram, and sometimes even before it, seeing the young fruits, Europa scarcely sees them under the bull. In the month of June. If, when the sun is in Gemini, it happens that thunder occurs, an abundance of moist and dry fruits is to be hoped for, but a sudden fall of a powerful man. Hyrcania, and the two Armenias, Amadiana, Marmarica, and lower Egypt will fare worse than the other lands, and especially in regard to men; for Gemini is a masculine animal, and man-shaped, and kindly. In the month of July. That this month was formerly called Quintilis, but was changed to this name in honor of Julius Caesar, has been stated by us at length in the treatise On Months.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":41,"ref":"p41","source":"εἰ τοίνυν ἐν καρκίνῳ ἡλίου γενομένου βροντὴν γενέσθαι συμβαίη, οἴνου μὲν δαψίλεια, τοῦ δὲ ἀέρος ξηρότης ἔσται. νόσοι τε φρικώδεις καὶ πυρεκτικοὶ καὶ κινδύνων ἐγγὺς ἐπί τε Βιθυνίας καὶ Φρυγίας ὅλης, Κολχικῆς, Νουμιδίας, Καρχηδόνος καὶ Ἀφρικῆς ταῖς θηλείαις διαφερόντως προσπεσοῦνται. φθαρήσεται δὲ καὶ τὰ ἐνάλια, τὰ ὀστρακώδη μάλιστα· καὶ γὰρ θῆλυ ζῴδιον καὶ σελήνης οἶκος ὁ καρκίνος. Μηνὶ Αὐγούστῳ. Σεξτίλιος τὸ πάλαι καὶ οὗτος ὁ μήν· Αὔγουστος δὲ τῷ ἴσῳ τρόπῳ πρὸς μνήμης Αὐγούστου Καίσαρος μετεκλήθη, ὡς ἡ ἱστορία λέγει. ἐφ' οὗ ἡ βροντὴ γενομένη τοῦ ἡλίου ὄντος ἐν λέοντι θόρυβον ἐξαίσιον τοῖς πράγμασι καὶ φθορὰν τοῖς καρποῖς ἐκ θηρίων ἀπειλεῖ ἐπί τε Ἰταλίας, Γαλλιῶν, Σικελίας, Φοινίκης,\n\nὈρχηνίας ἤτοι Ἀντορχηνίας. οὐχἥκιστα δὲ ταραχθήσονται οἱ ἄνδρες τῶν ἐθνῶν τούτων· καὶ γὰρ ἄρρεν ζῴδιον ὁ λέων. Μηνὶ Σεπτεμβρίῳ. τοῦ ἡλίου ἐν παρθένῳ γενομένου εἰ βροντὴν γενέσθαι συμβαίη, φθορὰν ζῴων εὐλαβητέον, ἁρπαγάς τε πολεμίων καὶ ἀνδραποδισμοὺς ἀνήβων, καὶ διαφερόντως τῶν παρθένων, ἐπειδὴ θῆλυ ζῴδιον ἡ παρθένος. ἐπὶ Ἑλλάδος δὲ ταῦτα συμβή σεται, Κρήτης, Βαβυλωνίας, Μεσοποταμίας καὶ Κοίλης Συρίας.","english":"If, then, when the sun is in Cancer, it should happen that thunder occurs, there will be abundance of wine, but dryness of the air. Shivering and feverish diseases, and dangers near at hand, will fall upon Bithynia and all Phrygia, Colchis, Numidia, Carthage, and Africa, especially upon women. Sea creatures will also perish, especially the shellfish; for Cancer is a female animal and the house of the moon. In the month of August. This month was formerly called Sextilis, and in like manner was renamed August in memory of Augustus Caesar, as history says. When thunder occurs while the sun is in Leo, it threatens extraordinary turmoil in public affairs and destruction of crops by wild beasts, in Italy, the Gauls, Sicily, Phoenicia, Orchenia, that is, Antorchenia. Not least will the men of these nations be disturbed; for the lion is a male animal. In the month of September. When the sun is in Virgo, if it should happen that thunder occurs, one must guard against destruction of living creatures, raids of enemies, and the enslavement of the young, and especially of maidens, since Virgo is a female animal. These things will happen in Greece, Crete, Babylonia, Mesopotamia, and Coele Syria.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":42,"ref":"p42","source":"26 Ὁ ἥλιος ἐν ζυγῷ μηνὶ Ὀκτωβρίῳ. τοῦ ἡλίου ἐν ζυγῷ γενομένου ἐὰν βροντὴ γένηται, θορύβους καὶ στάσεις σφαλερὰς μετὰ δυσμὰς ἡλίου ἀναφθῆναι προλέγει, καὶ τῇ ἀμπέλῳ τὴν ἐκ θηρίων βλάβην ἀπειλεῖ ἐπί τε Βακτρίας, Κασπίας, Σηρικῆς, Θηβῶν τῶν ἄνω, Ὀάσεως, Τρωγλοδυτικῆς. ἡ δὲ ἐκ τοῦ θορύβου βλάβη οὐ γυναικῶν, ἀνδρῶν δὲ μᾶλλον καθάψεται, ἐπεὶ καὶ ἄρρεν τὸ ζῴδιον. Ὁ ἥλιος ἐν σκορπίῳ μηνὶ Νοεμβρίῳ. εἰ κατὰ τοῦτο τοῦ καιροῦ βροντὴν γενέσθαι συμβαίη, ἀνὴρ μὲν δυνατὸς ἐκ τοῦ πολιτεύματος πεσεῖται, ὁ δὲ σῖτος ἄφθονος ἔσται ἐπί τε Κομμαγηνῆς Συρίας, Κασπίας, Μαυριτανίας καὶ Γαιτουλίας. τὸ δὲ θῆλυ γένος τῶν ζῴων κακωθήσεται, καὶ διαφερόντως ἐπὶ τῶν χωρῶν τούτων, ὅτι θῆλυ ζῴδιον ὁ σκορπίος. Μηνὶ Δεκεμβρίῳ. τοῦ ἡλίου ἐπὶ τοξότην ἰόντος εἰ βροντὴν ἐπιρραγῆναι συμβαίη, τοῖς Περσῶν βασιλεῦσι κίνδυνος ἐπιπεσεῖται τῷ τε ἔθνει παντί. ἡ δὲ Κελτικὴ πρὸς Ἱσπανίας καὶ Τυρρηνία καὶ ἡ εὐ δαίμων Ἀραβία σφόδρα ταραχθήσεται, καὶ διαφερόντως τοῖς ὅπλοις, ἐπεὶ καὶ ἄρρην ὁ τοξότης.","english":"The sun in Libra, in the month of October. If, when the sun is in Libra, thunder occurs, it foretells that tumults and dangerous seditions will be kindled after sunset, and it threatens the vine with harm from wild beasts, and also in Bactria, Caspia, Serica, Upper Thebes, Oasis, and the Troglodytic region. The harm from the tumult will attach not to women but rather to men, since the sign is also male. The sun in Scorpio, in the month of November. If it should happen that thunder occurs at this time, a powerful man shall fall from the government, and grain shall be abundant, and also in Commagene, Syria, Caspia, Mauretania, and Gaetulia. The female kind of animals shall be afflicted, and especially in these regions, because the scorpion is a female sign. In the month of December. If, when the sun is going into Sagittarius, it should happen that thunder bursts forth, danger shall fall upon the kings of the Persians and upon the whole nation. And Celtic land toward the Iberias, and Tyrrhenia, and blessed Arabia shall be greatly disturbed, and especially in arms, since the archer is also male.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":43,"ref":"p43","source":"8 ΕΦΗΜΕΡΟΣ ΒΡΟΝΤΟΣΚΟΠΙΑ ΤΟΠΙΚΗ ΠΡΟΣ ΤΗΝ ΣΕΛΗΝΗΝ ΚΑΤΑ ΤΟΝ ΡΩΜΑΙΟΝ ΦΙΓΟΥΛΟΝ ΕΚ ΤΩΝ ΤΑΓΗΤΟΣ ΚΑΘ' ΕΡΜΗΝΕΙΑΝ ΠΡΟΣ ΛΕΞΙΝ Εἰ ἐπὶ πάσαις ταῖς τῆς διοσημείας παραδόσεσι τὴν σελήνην φαίνονται λαβόντες οἱ ἀρχαῖοι ὑπ' αὐτὴν γὰρ τά τε βροντῶν τά τε κεραυνῶν ἐκδέδοται σημεῖα, καλῶς ἄν τις ἄρα καὶ τὸν σελήνης οἶκον ἐπιλέξαιτο, ὥστε ἀπὸ τοῦ καρκίνου καὶ ἐνταῦθα τὴν ἐφήμερον ἀπὸ τῆς σεληνιακῆς νουμηνίας κατὰ τοὺς σεληνιακοὺς μῆνας ληψόμεθα τῶν βροντῶν ἐπίσκεψιν· ἐξ ἧς τὰς τοπικάς, ἐφ' ὧν ῥήγνυνται χωρίων αἱ βρονταί, παρατηρήσεις οἱ Θοῦσκοι παρέδοσαν.\n\nΜΗΝΙ ΙΟΥΝΙΩ Σελ. αʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, τῶν καρπῶν εὐφορία ἔσται, ἐξῃρημένων κριθῶν· νοσήματα δὲ ἐπισφαλῆ τοῖς σώμασιν ἐπισκήψει. βʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, ταῖς μὲν ὠδινούσαις ἀπαλλαγὴ μᾶλλον ῥᾳδία, τοῖς δὲ θρέμμασι φθορά, ἰχθύων γε μὴν ἀφθονία ἔσται. γʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, καύσων ἔσται ξηρότατος, ὥστε μὴ τοὺς ξηροὺς μόνους ἀλλὰ καὶ τοὺς ὑγροὺς καρποὺς διαφρυγέντας ἀποκαυθῆναι. δʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, νεφελώδης καὶ ὑετώδης ὁ ἀὴρ ἔσται, ὡς ἐκ σηπτικῆς ὑγρότητος φθαρῆναι τοὺς καρπούς. εʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, ἀπαίσιον τοῖς ἀγροῖς· οἱ δὲ χωρίοις ἢ πολίχναις ἐφεστῶτες ταραχθήσονται. ςʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, ἀκμάσασι τοῖς καρποῖς ἐντεχθήσεταί τι θηρίον τὸ βλάπτον αὐτούς. ζʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, νοσήματα μὲν ἐνσκήψει, ἀλλ' οὐ πολλοὶ ἐξ αὐτῶν τεθνήξονται· καὶ οἱ μὲν ξηροὶ καρποὶ ἐπιτεύξονται, οἱ δὲ ὑγροὶ ξηρανθήσονται. ηʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, ἐπομβρίαν καὶ φθορὰν σίτου δηλοῖ. θʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, φθορὰ τοῖς θρέμμασιν ἔσται ἐξ ἐπιδρομῆς λύκων. ιʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, θάνατος μὲν ἔσται συχνός, εὐθηνία δὲ ὅμως.","english":"A Daily Thunder-Reading, Local, Relative to the Moon, According to the Roman Figulus, from the Writings of Tagetes, Translated Word for Word\n\nSince in all the traditions of divination by thunderbolts the ancients appear to have taken the moon as their starting point—for under her are set forth the signs both of thunders and of lightning-bolts—one would rightly choose also the house of the moon, so that from Cancer, here too, we shall take the daily inspection of thunders from the lunar new moon, according to the lunar months; from which the Tuscans handed down the local observations, in the places where the thunders break forth.\n\nIn the month of June. 1st. If it thunders, there will be abundance of fruits, except for barley; but dangerous diseases will fall upon bodies. 2nd. If it thunders, for women in labor there will be a rather easy delivery, but destruction for cattle, yet abundance of fish. 3rd. If it thunders, there will be a most parching heat, so that not only dry but also moist fruits will be scorched and burnt up. 4th. If it thunders, the air will be cloudy and rainy, so that from putrefying moisture the fruits will be destroyed. 5th. If it thunders, it is inauspicious for fields; but those set over places or towns will be thrown into turmoil. 6th. If it thunders, when the fruits are at their peak some beast will be bred in them that harms them. 7th. If it thunders, diseases will descend, but not many will die from them; and the dry fruits will succeed, but the moist ones will be dried up. 8th. If it thunders, it signifies heavy rain and destruction of grain. 9th. If it thunders, there will be destruction for cattle from an inroad of wolves. 10th. If it thunders, there will be frequent death, yet abundance nonetheless.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":44,"ref":"p44","source":"ιαʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, καύματα μὲν ἀβλαβῆ, τὰ δὲ πολιτικὰ ἐν εὐφροσύνῃ ἔσται. ιβʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, ὁμοίως ὡς ἐπὶ τῇ πρὸ\n\nταύτης. ιγʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, δυνάστου πτῶσιν ἀπειλεῖ. ιδʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, καυσῶδες μὲν τὸ περιέχον ἔσται, εὐφορία δὲ τῶν καρπῶν καὶ εὔροια τῶν ποταμίων οὐχ ἥκιστα ἰχθύων. τὰ σώματά γε μὴν ἐξασθενήσει. ιεʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, τὰ μὲν πτηνὰ λυμανθήσεται τῷ θέρει, οἱ δὲ ἰχθύες φθαρήσονται. ιςʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, οὐκ ἐλάττωσιν μόνον τῶν ἐπιτηδείων ἀλλὰ καὶ πόλεμον ἀπειλεῖ, ἀνὴρ δέ τις εὐτυχὴς ἀφανισθήσεται. ιζʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, καύματα ἔσται καὶ μυῶν καὶ ἀσφαλάκων καὶ ἀκρίδων φορά· εὐθηνίαν δὲ ὁμῶς καὶ φόνους τῷ δήμῳ φέρει. ιηʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, φθορὰν τῶν καρπῶν ἀπειλεῖ. ιθʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, τὰ λυμαινόμενα τοῖς καρποῖς θηρία φθαρήσεται. κʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, διχόνοιαν ἀπειλεῖ τῷ δήμῳ. καʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, ἐλάττωσιν μὲν οἴνου, ἐπίδοσιν δὲ τῶν ἄλλων καρπῶν δηλοῖ καὶ ἀφθονίαν ἰχθύων. κβʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, ἐπίφθορον ἔσται τὸ καῦμα. κγʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, εὐφροσύνην καὶ κακῶν ἀπαλλαγὴν καὶ νόσων ἀφανισμὸν δηλοῖ. κδʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, εὐθηνίαν δηλοῖ. κεʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, πόλεμοι καὶ μυρία ἔσονται κακά. κςʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, ὁ χειμὼν τοῖς καρποῖς ἐπιβλαβὴς ἔσται. κζʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, κίνδυνος στρατιωτικὸς τοῖς κρατοῦσιν ἔσται. κηʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, εὐετηρία ἔσται τῶν καρπῶν. κθʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, τὰ τῆς βασιλίδος πόλεως ἔσται κρείττονα. λʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, πρὸς βραχὺ θάνατος ἔσται συχνός.","english":"11. If it thunders, the heats will be harmless, and public affairs will be in a state of gladness. 12. If it thunders, likewise as in the case of the one before this. 13. If it thunders, it threatens the fall of a ruler. 14. If it thunders, the surrounding air will be scorching, but there will be abundance of fruits and a good flow of river fish not least. Yet bodies will be weakened. 15. If it thunders, the birds will be harmed in summer, and the fish will perish. 16. If it thunders, it threatens not only a scarcity of provisions but also war, and some fortunate man will be destroyed. 17. If it thunders, there will be heats and a swarm of mice and moles and locusts; alike it brings abundance and slaughters to the people. 18. If it thunders, it threatens the destruction of fruits. 19. If it thunders, the beasts that harm the fruits will perish. 20. If it thunders, it threatens discord for the people. 21. If it thunders, it signifies a decrease of wine, but an increase of the other fruits and an abundance of fish. 22. If it thunders, the heat will be pestilential. 23. If it thunders, it signifies gladness and release from evils and the disappearance of diseases. 24. If it thunders, it signifies abundance. 25. If it thunders, there will be wars and countless evils. 26. If it thunders, the winter will be harmful to the fruits. 27. If it thunders, there will be military danger for those in power. 28. If it thunders, there will be a good season for the fruits. 29. If it thunders, the affairs of the queen's city will be better. 30. If it thunders, there will be frequent death for a short time.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":45,"ref":"p45","source":"28 ΙΟΥΛΙΟΣ αʹ. Ἐπὶ τῆς σεληνιακῆς νουμηνίας ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, εὐθηνία μὲν ἔσται, τῶν δὲ θρεμμάτων πτῶσις. βʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, καλὸν τῷ φθινοπώρῳ. γʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, χειμῶνα βαρὺν σημαίνει. δʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, ἀέριοι ἔσονται ταραχαί, ὡς ἐξ αὐτῶν σπάνιν γενέσθαι. εʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, εὐθηνία μὲν σίτου, ἄρχοντος δὲ ἀγαθοῦ πτῶσις ἔσται. ςʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, νόσους θανατηφόρους ταῖς δουλικαῖς τύχαις ἀπειλεῖ. ζʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, κατομβρία ἔσται βλαβερὰ τοῖς σπορίμοις. ηʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, εἰρήνην μὲν τοῖς κοινοῖς, ὄλεθρον δὲ τοῖς βοσκήμασι καὶ βῆχα ξηρὸν ἐνσκῆψαι δηλοῖ. θʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, ἐποψίαν θεῶν καὶ ἀγαθῶν πολλῶν πρόσοδον δηλοῖ. ιʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, σωτηριώδη ἔσται τὰ ποτάμια ὕδατα. ιαʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, καῦμα σημαίνει καὶ ὄμβρον βίαιον καὶ σπάνιν σίτου. ιβʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, ψῦχος τῷ θέρει ἔσται ἀδόκητον, δι' οὗ φθαρήσεται τὰ ἐπιτήδεια. ιγʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, ἑρπετὰ φανεῖται βλαβερώτατα. ιδʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, εἰς ἕνα τὴν πάντων δύναμιν ἐλθεῖν φράζει· οὗτος δὲ ἔσται τοῖς πράγμασιν ἀδικώτατος. ιεʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, διχόνοια ἔσται τοῦ δήμου καὶ τοῦ σίτου ἔνδεια. ιςʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, πόλεμον ὁ τῆς ἀνατολῆς βασιλεὺς ἐκδεχέσθω καὶ νόσον ἀπὸ ξηροῦ καύματος. ιζʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, διαδοχὴν μεγάλου ἄρχοντος δηλοῖ. ιηʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, ἔνδειαν καρπῶν ἐξ ἐπομβρίας ἀπειλεῖ. ιθʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, πόλεμον δηλοῖ καὶ ἀπώλειαν δυνατῶν· ἀφθονία δὲ ἔσται τῶν ξηρῶν καρπῶν. κʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, αὐχμὸν νοσώδη ἀπειλεῖ. καʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, διχόνοια ἔσται τοῖς ὑπηκόοις, ἀλλ' οὐκ εἰς μακράν. κβʹ.","english":"28 JULY 1. If it thunders at the lunar new moon, there will be prosperity, but a fall of cattle. 2. If it thunders, it is good for the autumn. 3. If it thunders, it signifies a heavy winter. 4. If it thunders, there will be disturbances in the air, so that scarcity arises from them. 5. If it thunders, there will be prosperity of grain, but the fall of a good ruler. 6. If it thunders, it threatens deadly diseases for servile fortunes. 7. If it thunders, there will be heavy rain harmful to sown fields. 8. If it thunders, it indicates peace for public affairs, but destruction for grazing animals, and that a dry cough will fall upon them. 9. If it thunders, it indicates the visitation of the gods and the approach of many good things. 10. If it thunders, the river waters will be salutary. 11. If it thunders, it signifies heat and a violent rainstorm and scarcity of grain. 12. If it thunders, there will be unlooked-for cold in summer, through which provisions will be destroyed. 13. If it thunders, reptiles will appear most harmful. 14. If it thunders, it declares that the power of all will come to one man; and this man will be most unjust in public affairs. 15. If it thunders, there will be discord of the people and lack of grain. 16. If it thunders, let the king of the East expect war and disease from dry heat. 17. If it thunders, it indicates the succession of a great ruler. 18. If it thunders, it threatens a lack of fruits from flooding rain. 19. If it thunders, it indicates war and the destruction of the powerful; but there will be abundance of dry fruits. 20. If it thunders, it threatens a diseased drought. 21. If it thunders, there will be discord among subjects, but not for long. 22.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":46,"ref":"p46","source":"ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, ἀγαθὰ μὲν τοῖς κοινοῖς πράγμασι, νόσους δὲ τοῖς σώμασι περὶ τὴν κεφαλὴν σημαίνει. κγʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, ἡ διχόνοια τοῦ δήμου παυθήσεται. κδʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, δυνατοῦ ἀνθρώπου δηλοῖ δυνατὸν ἀτύχημα. κεʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, τῇ νεολαίᾳ κάκωσις καὶ τοῖς καρποῖς μετ' αὐτῆς, νοσώδης δὲ ὁ καιρὸς ἔσται. κςʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, ἀπὸ μεγάλης εὐθηνίας ἔνδεια ἔσται. κζʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, ἐκβρασμὸν τοῖς σώμασιν ἀπειλεῖ. κηʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, ἔνδεια ὑδάτων καὶ ὄχλος ἑρπετῶν ἐπιβλαβῶν ἔσται. κθʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, εὐετηρίαν δηλοῖ. λʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, οἱ ἄνθρωποι ἐκ ποινηλασίας ἐπὶ τὰ χείριστα τῶν πταισμάτων ὀλισθήσουσιν. ΑΥΓΟΥΣΤΟΣ\n\nαʹ. Ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, καὶ τὰ τῆς πολιτείας ἠρέμα πως καλλίονα καὶ εὐθηνία ἔσται. βʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, νόσους ἅμα καὶ ἔνδειαν τῶν ἐπιτηδείων ἀπειλεῖ. γʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, δίκας καὶ λέσχας τῷ δήμῳ ἀπειλεῖ. δʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, ἔνδεια τροφῶν λογικοῖς ἅμα καὶ ἀλόγοις ἔσται. εʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, τὰς γυναῖκας συνετωτέρας δηλοῖ. ςʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, μέλιτος μὲν ἀφθονία ἔσται, ὕδατος δὲ καὶ τῶν λοιπῶν τροφίμων λεῖψις. ζʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, ἀνέμους τραχεῖς καὶ νόσους ὁμοῦ σημαίνει. ηʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, νόσον ἀκίνδυνον τοῖς τετραπόδοις ἀπειλεῖ. θʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, ὑγίειαν μὲν ἀνθρώποις ὡς ἐκ τοῦ πλείονος ἐπαγγέλλεται. ιʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, λύπας καὶ μοχθηρίας τῷ πλήθει ἀπειλεῖ. ιαʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, εὐετηρία μὲν ἔσται, πτῶσις δὲ ἑρπετῶν καὶ βλάβη τοῖς ἀνθρώποις. ιβʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, χόρτου καὶ βαλάνου ἀφθονία ἔσται, τῇ δὲ πρώτῃ ἡλικίᾳ κάκωσις. ιγʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, ὄλεθρος ἔσται τοῖς σώμασι λογικῶν τε καὶ ἀλόγων. ιδʹ.","english":"If it thunders, it signifies good things for public affairs, but diseases in bodies around the head. 23. If it thunders, the discord of the people will cease. 24. If it thunders, it reveals a mighty misfortune for a mighty man. 25. If it thunders, there will be affliction for the youth and with it for the crops, and the season will be sickly. 26. If it thunders, there will be scarcity after great abundance. 27. If it thunders, it threatens an eruption upon bodies. 28. If it thunders, there will be a scarcity of waters and a swarm of harmful reptiles. 29. If it thunders, it signifies fertility. 30. If it thunders, men will slip from the pursuit of punishment into the worst of offenses. AUGUST\n\n1. If it thunders, the affairs of the state will also become somehow gently better and there will be fertility. 2. If it thunders, it threatens diseases together with a scarcity of provisions. 3. If it thunders, it threatens lawsuits and gossip for the people. 4. If it thunders, there will be a scarcity of food for rational and irrational creatures alike. 5. If it thunders, it signifies that women will be more prudent. 6. If it thunders, there will be an abundance of honey, but a lack of water and the other foods. 7. If it thunders, it signifies rough winds and diseases together. 8. If it thunders, it threatens a harmless disease for quadrupeds. 9. If it thunders, it promises health for men, for the most part. 10. If it thunders, it threatens griefs and miseries for the multitude. 11. If it thunders, there will be fertility, but a fall of reptiles and harm for men. 12. If it thunders, there will be an abundance of grass and acorns, but affliction for the first age. 13. If it thunders, there will be destruction for the bodies of rational and irrational creatures. 14.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":47,"ref":"p47","source":"ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, πόλεμον μὲν τοῖς κοινοῖς, ἀφθονίαν δὲ τοῖς καρποῖς δηλοῖ. ιεʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, ἐπὶ τὸ χεῖρον τὰ πράγματα. ιςʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, εἰρήνην βαθεῖαν ἐπαγγέλλεται. ιζʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, οἱ χείρους τῶν ἀνθρώπων στυγνάσουσιν. ιηʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, πόλεμον ἐμφύλιον ἀπειλεῖ. ιθʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, φόνους αἱ γυναῖκες καὶ τὸ δουλικὸν τολμήσει. κʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, ὄλεθρον βοῶν καὶ ταραχὰς τοῖς πράγμασιν ἀπειλεῖ. καʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, εὐθηνίαν ἅμα καὶ διχόνοιαν τῷ δήμῳ δηλοῖ. κβʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, καλὰ μετρίως τὰ πράγματα ἀνὰ πάντα τὸν ἐνιαυτόν. κγʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, κεραυνὸν πεσεῖσθαι δηλοῖ καὶ φόνους ἀπειλεῖ. κδʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, ἀπώλειαν εὐγενῶν νέων ἀπειλεῖ. κεʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, χειμῶνα καὶ σπάνιν ὀπωρῶν ἔσεσθαι προλέγει. κςʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, πόλεμον σημαίνει. κζʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, πολέμους ἅμα καὶ δόλους ἀπειλεῖ. κηʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, εὐθηνίαν μὲν τῶν καρπῶν, φθορὰν δὲ τῶν βοῶν σημαίνει. κθʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, οὐδεμίαν ἐναλλαγὴν σημαίνει. λʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, νόσους τῇ πόλει, ἐφ' ἧς ῥαγήσεται, ἀπειλεῖ. τ ΣΕΠΤΕΜΒΡΙΟΣ αʹ. Ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, εὐετηρίαν ἅμα καὶ εὐφροσύνην δηλοῖ. βʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, διχόνοια τῷ δήμῳ ἔσται. γʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, κατομβρίαν καὶ πόλεμον δηλοῖ. δʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, δυνατοῦ πτῶσιν παὶ πολέμου παρασκευὴν δηλοῖ. εʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, κριθῆς μὲν ἀφθονίαν, σίτου δὲ ἐλάττωσιν δηλοῖ. ςʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, δύναμις ἔσται ταῖς γυναιξὶ κρείττων ἢ κατ' αὐτάς. ζʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, νόσον καὶ πτῶσιν τῷ δουλικῷ ἐξ αὐτῆς ἀπειλεῖ. ηʹ.","english":"If it thunders, it signifies war for public affairs, but abundance for crops. 15. If it thunders, affairs will turn for the worse. 16. If it thunders, it promises deep peace. 17. If it thunders, the worse sort of men will be sullen. 18. If it thunders, it threatens civil war. 19. If it thunders, women and the slave class will dare murders. 20. If it thunders, it threatens destruction of cattle and disturbances for public affairs. 21. If it thunders, it signifies prosperity together with discord for the people. 22. If it thunders, affairs will be moderately good throughout the whole year. 23. If it thunders, it signifies that a thunderbolt will fall and threatens murders. 24. If it thunders, it threatens the destruction of noble young men. 25. If it thunders, it foretells that there will be storm and scarcity of fruits. 26. If it thunders, it signifies war. 27. If it thunders, it threatens wars together with treacheries. 28. If it thunders, it signifies abundance of crops, but destruction of cattle. 29. If it thunders, it signifies no change. 30. If it thunders, it threatens diseases for the city over which it will burst. SEPTEMBER. 1. If it thunders, it signifies fair weather together with gladness. 2. If it thunders, there will be discord for the people. 3. If it thunders, it signifies heavy rain and war. 4. If it thunders, it signifies the fall of a powerful man and preparation for war. 5. If it thunders, it signifies abundance of barley, but a decrease of wheat. 6. If it thunders, there will be power for women greater than is fitting for them. 7. If it thunders, it threatens disease and downfall for the slave class from it. 8.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":48,"ref":"p48","source":"ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, τοὺς μάλιστα δυνατοὺς τοῦ πολιτεύματος σκολιὰ ἐννοεῖν, ἀποτεύξεσθαι δὲ τῶν νοουμένων κατηγορεῖ. θʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, ἄνεμον πνεῦσαι ἐπίνοσον ἀπειλεῖ. ιʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, ἔρις ἔσται τῷ τόπῳ ἐφ' οὗ ῥαγήσεται πρὸς ἕτερον οὐκ ἄλογος. ιαʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, οἱ ὑπεξούσιοι τῶν εὐγενῶν σκέψονταί τι καινὸν ἐν τοῖς κοινοῖς. ιβʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, ἔπομβρον τὸν τοῦ ἀμητοῦ καιρὸν καὶ λιμὸν ἔσεσθαι λέγει. ιγʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, λιμὸν βαρὺν ἀπειλεῖ. ιδʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, νόσους ἀπειλεῖ. ιεʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, κατομβρίαν μὲν δηλοῖ, εὐθηνίαν δὲ ὅμως. ιςʹ. ἐὰν βροντήσῃ, ὁ σπόρος πολὺς, ἄκαρπος δὲ δηλοῦται. ιζʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, ἔνδειαν τῶν ἀναγκαίων ἀπειλεῖ. ιηʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, λιμὸν ἅμα καὶ πολέμους σημαίνει. ιθʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, ὁ μὲν δενδρώδης καρπὸς ἐπιτεύξεται, νόσοι δὲ καὶ στάσεις δημοτικαὶ ἔσονται. κʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, ἀπώλειαν κλεινοῦ ἀνθρώπου καὶ πόλεμον ἀπειλεῖ. καʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, λύπας καὶ ζημίας τῷ δήμῳ ἀπειλεῖ. κβʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, εὐθηνίαν μέν, χειμῶνα δὲ βαρὺν καὶ ὑγρὸν σημαίνει. κγʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, τὸν χειμῶνα τοῦ ἔτους ἐνδεᾶ προλέγει. κδʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, λειψυδρίαν ἀπειλεῖ. τῶν δὲ ἀκροδρύων εὐφορία ἔσται, περὶ δὲ τὸ φθινόπωρον θυέλλαις διαφθαρήσεται. κεʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, ἐκ διχονοίας τοῦ πολιτεύματος τύραννος ἀναστήσεται, καὶ αὐτὸς μὲν","english":"If it thunders, it accuses the most powerful men of the state of devising crooked schemes, but they will fail to achieve what they intend. 9. If it thunders, it threatens that a disease-bringing wind will blow. 10. If it thunders, there will be strife in the place where the thunderclap breaks out against another, not unreasonably. 11. If it thunders, the dependents of the noble will consider some new thing in public affairs. 12. If it thunders, it says that the harvest season will be rainy and there will be famine. 13. If it thunders, it threatens a severe famine. 14. If it thunders, it threatens diseases. 15. If it thunders, it indicates heavy rain, yet nevertheless abundance. 16. If it thunders, the seed is plentiful, but it is declared to be fruitless. 17. If it thunders, it threatens a shortage of necessities. 18. If it thunders, it signifies famine together with wars. 19. If it thunders, the fruit of trees will succeed, but there will be diseases and popular seditions. 20. If it thunders, it threatens the destruction of a famous man and war. 21. If it thunders, it threatens griefs and losses for the people. 22. If it thunders, it signifies abundance, but a severe and wet winter. 23. If it thunders, it foretells that the winter of the year will be deficient. 24. If it thunders, it threatens a lack of water. But there will be abundance of tree fruits, and around autumn they will be destroyed by storms. 25. If it thunders, a tyrant will arise from the discord of the state, and he himself","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":49,"ref":"p49","source":"ἀπολεῖται, ζημίαις δὲ ἀφορήτοις οἱ δυνατοὶ ὑποστήσονται. κςʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, ὁ κακὸς δυνάστης βουλῇ θεοῦ πεσεῖται. κζʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, δυνατοὶ πρὸς ἑαυτοὺς διενεχθήσονται καὶ ἀλλήλους διαβαλοῦσιν. κηʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, σημεῖα ἔσται πραγμάτων μεγάλων μηνυτικά. εὐλαβητέον δὲ μὴ καὶ πῦρ ἐπομβρήσῃ ἐνιαχοῦ. κθʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, αὐχμὸν ἐπιβλαβῆ ἀπειλεῖ. λʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, ἀπὸ χειρόνων ἐπὶ τὰ κρείττω τὰ κοινά. ΟΚΤΩΒΡΙΟΣ αʹ. Εἰ βροντήσῃ, κακὸν τύραννον τοῖς πράγμασιν ἀπειλεῖ. βʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, εὐθηνία μὲν ἔσται, φθορὰ δὲ τῶν χερσαίων μυῶν. γʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, θυέλλας καὶ ταραχὰς δηλοῖ, δι' ὧν τὰ μὲν δένδρα φθαρήσεται· μεγάλων δὲ ζαλῶν ἔσται τοῖς κοινοῖς μήνυμα. δʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, οἱ ἐλάττους τὰ τῶν κρειττόνων καθέξουσιν, ὑγιεινὸν δὲ ἔσται τὸ τοῦ ἀέρος κατάστημα. εʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, πάντων ἐπιδόσεις τῶν ἀναγκαίων, ἐξῃρημένου σίτου. ςʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, ἡ ὄψις μὲν εὐθηνίας, ἀμητὸς δὲ ἐλάττων, καὶ τὸ φθινόπωρον ἐγγὺς ἄκαρπον. ζʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, ὄσπρια μὲν ἄφθονα, οἶνος δὲ ἐλάττων ἔσται. ηʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, σεισμὸν μετὰ μυκήματος προσδοκητέον. θʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, ὄλεθρον θηρίοις ἀπειλεῖ. ιʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, ἀνδρὸς ἐπαινουμένου πτῶσιν δηλοῖ. ιαʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, ἀλληλανεμίαν ἐπισφαλῆ ταῖς βοτάναις δηλοῖ. ιβʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, εὐθηνία μὲν ἔσται, σκηπτοὶ δὲ ἐκθλιβήσονται. ιγʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, καλὰ τὰ συναλλάγματα, καὶ εὐθηνία πρὸς αὐτοῖς· ὁ δὲ ἐπὶ τῇ πολιτείᾳ βαρὺς οὐκ ἐπὶ πλέον ἰσχύσει. ιδʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, πόλεμον καὶ φθορὰν βοσκημάτων ἀπειλεῖ. ιεʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, σπάνις ἔσται πνεύματος ξηροῦ καὶ καυστικοῦ ἐμπίπτοντος τοῖς καρποῖς. ιςʹ.","english":"will perish, and the powerful will undergo unbearable losses. 26. If it thunders, the wicked ruler will fall by the counsel of God. 27. If it thunders, the powerful will quarrel among themselves and slander one another. 28. If it thunders, there will be signs portending great events. But one must beware lest fire also rain down in some places. 29. If it thunders, it threatens a harmful drought. 30. If it thunders, public affairs will change from worse to better. OCTOBER 1. If it thunders, it threatens the state with a wicked tyrant. 2. If it thunders, there will be abundance, but destruction of field mice. 3. If it thunders, it signifies storms and disturbances, through which trees will be destroyed; and it will be a portent of great tempests for the public. 4. If it thunders, the lesser will seize the possessions of the greater, and the condition of the air will be healthful. 5. If it thunders, there will be increases of all necessities, except grain. 6. If it thunders, the appearance is of abundance, but the harvest will be smaller, and the autumn will be nearly fruitless. 7. If it thunders, legumes will be plentiful, but wine will be less. 8. If it thunders, one must expect an earthquake with a bellowing. 9. If it thunders, it threatens destruction for wild beasts. 10. If it thunders, it signifies the fall of a praised man. 11. If it thunders, it signifies a dangerous exchange of crops among the plants. 12. If it thunders, there will be abundance, but lightning bolts will be crushed out. 13. If it thunders, business dealings will be good, and abundance will attend them; but the man who is burdensome to the state will not prevail further. 14. If it thunders, it threatens war and destruction of grazing animals. 15. If it thunders, there will be a scarcity of dry and burning wind falling upon the fruits. 16.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":50,"ref":"p50","source":"εἰ βροντήσῃ, ἐξασθενήσουσιν οὕτως ἄνθρωποι, ὡς ἄγνωστοι εἶναι δοκεῖν. ιζʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, πλουσίου ἀνδρὸς καὶ εὐγενῶν εὐτυχήματα. ιηʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, ἐπείσακτον εὐθηνίαν δηλοῖ. ιθʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, δυνάστου πτῶσιν ἢ βασιλέως ἐκβολὴν ἀπειλεῖ, διχόνοιάν τε τῷ δήμῳ καὶ ἀφθονίαν δηλοῖ. κʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, ἕλκη ξένα ἀπειλεῖ, τῷ δὲ πλήθει ἐκ διχονοίας ἐσχάτην ἀτυχίαν. καʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, νόσοι βηχώδεις ἔσονται καὶ στηθῶν κακώσεις. κβʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, μοχθηρίας τῷ δήμῳ καὶ νόσους ποικίλας ἀπειλεῖ. κγʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, ὁ δῆμος εὐφρανθήσεται παραδόξως. κδʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, ἐκ διχονοίας τῶν κρατούντων ὁ δῆμος περιέσται. κεʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, βαρεῖα ἔσται ἀπὸ τῶν κακῶν δειλία. κςʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, αὐξηθήσεται μὲν τὰ θηρία, λιμώξει δὲ ὅμως. κζʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, ἐπομβρίαν δηλοῖ. κηʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, ἔνδεια ἔσται τῶν ἀναγκαίων. κθʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, ἐπίνοσος ὁ ἐνιαυτός. λʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, οὐκ εὐθηνίαν μόνον ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐλάττωσιν τῶν πολεμίων καὶ εὐφροσύνην τοῖς πράγμασι δηλοῖ. ΝΟΕΜΒΡΙΟΣ αʹ. Εἰ βροντήσῃ, διχόνοιαν δηλοῖ τῇ πόλει. βʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, εὐθηνίαν προλέγει. γʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, πράγματα ἀναφύεται, δι' ὧν οἱ ἐλάττους περιέσονται τῶν μειζόνων. δʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, κρείττων ὁ σῖτος. εʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, ζάλην τοῖς πράγμασι δηλοῖ, αἰσθητοῖς τε καὶ ἀλόγοις νόσον. ςʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, σκώληκες τῷ σίτῳ λυμανοῦνται. ζʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, τοῖς ὑπὸ τὴν δύσιν ἀνθρώποις τε καὶ ἀλόγοις νόσοι. ηʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, ἀδδηφαγίας ἔσεσθαι δεῖ διὰ νόσους ἀπειλουμένας. θʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, δημοτῶν ἀνασκολοπισμοὶ ἔσονται, ἀλλὰ μὴν καὶ ἀφθονία τῶν ἐπιτηδείων. ιʹ.","english":"If it thunders, men will be weakened so that they seem to be unknown. 17. If it thunders, good fortune for a wealthy man and for the noble. 18. If it thunders, it signifies imported prosperity. 19. If it thunders, it threatens the fall of a ruler or the expulsion of a king, and it signifies discord for the people and abundance. 20. If it thunders, it threatens strange ulcers, and for the multitude, from discord, the utmost misfortune. 21. If it thunders, there will be coughing diseases and afflictions of the chest. 22. If it thunders, it threatens wickedness for the people and various diseases. 23. If it thunders, the people will rejoice unexpectedly. 24. If it thunders, from the discord of those in power the people will prevail. 25. If it thunders, there will be grievous cowardice from evils. 26. If it thunders, wild beasts will increase, yet there will be famine. 27. If it thunders, it signifies heavy rain. 28. If it thunders, there will be a lack of necessities. 29. If it thunders, the year will be sickly. 30. If it thunders, it signifies not only prosperity but also the diminution of enemies and gladness for affairs. NOVEMBER. 1. If it thunders, it signifies discord for the city. 2. If it thunders, it foretells prosperity. 3. If it thunders, affairs spring up through which the lesser will prevail over the greater. 4. If it thunders, the grain will be better. 5. If it thunders, it signifies a storm for affairs, and disease for both living creatures and irrational beasts. 6. If it thunders, worms will ravage the grain. 7. If it thunders, diseases for men and irrational beasts in the regions under the west. 8. If it thunders, there must be gluttony because of the diseases threatened. 9. If it thunders, there will be impalings of the common people, but indeed also abundance of provisions. 10.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":51,"ref":"p51","source":"εἰ βροντήσῃ, πέρας ἔχει τὰ κακῶς βουλευθέντα τοῖς κρατοῦσιν, ἄνεμος δὲ καυσώδης τοῖς δένδροις λυμαίνεται. ιαʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, εὐχαριστείτωσαν ἄνθρωποι τῷ θεῷ· ἄνεμος γὰρ ἐξ ἀνατολῶν ῥεύσει. ιβʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, ἐνύπνια τοῖς ἀνθρώποις πλείονα δόξει. ιγʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, ἐπικερδῆ μὲν τὸν καιρὸν, λοιμικὸν δὲ ἀπειλεῖ, ἕλμισι δὲ ἐντοσθίοις κακοῖ τὰ σώματα. ιδʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, ἑρπετὰ τοῖς ἀνθρώποις ἠρέμα πως λυμαίνεται. ιεʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, ὁ μὲν ἰχθὺς ἀφθονώτατος, λοιμώξει δὲ τὰ ἔνυδρα θηρία, καὶ τὰ κοινὰ δῆθεν καλλίονα. ιςʹ. εἰ\n\nβροντήσῃ, ἀκρίδες καὶ μυῶν ἀρουραίων γένεσις, τῷ δὲ βασιλεῖ κίνδυνος, καὶ σίτου ἀφθονία ἔσται. ιζʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, νομὴν ἄφθονον τοῖς κτήνεσι δηλοῖ. ιηʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, πόλεμον δηλοῖ καὶ τοῖς ἀστειοτέροις λύπας. ιθʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, γυναικῶν εὐπραγίας. κʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, λιμὸν ἀλλ' οὐκ εἰς μακρὰν δηλοῖ. καʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, οἱ μύες φθαρήσονται, εὐθηνία δὲ οὐ σίτου μόνον ἀλλὰ καὶ νομῆς, καὶ ἰχθύων πλῆθος. κβʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, εὐετηρίαν δηλοῖ. κγʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, ἄνεμος νοσώδης πνεύσει. κδʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, φρούριον τῇ πολιτείᾳ χρηστὸν ὑπὸ πολεμίοις τελέσει. κεʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, πόλεμος ἐπικίνδυνος ἔσται· καὶ ἄνεμος νοσώδης πνεύσει. κςʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, πόλεμον ἐμφύλιον καὶ πτῶσιν πολλῶν δηλοῖ· ὄμβροι τε ἔσονται λοιμώδεις. κζʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, τὰ αὐτὰ ἀπειλεῖ. κηʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, τῆς συγκλήτου πολλοὶ ἀθυμίᾳ φθαρήσονται. κθʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, οἱ μὲν χείρους κάλλιον πράξουσιν, αἱ δὲ ἐσόμεναι ὀπῶραι φθαρήσονται. λʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, θεοφιλέστερον οἱ ἄνθρωποι ζήσονται· καὶ εἰκότως σύμμετρα τὰ κακά.","english":"If it thunders, the things badly planned by the rulers come to an end, and a scorching wind damages the trees. 11. If it thunders, let men give thanks to God; for a wind will flow from the east. 12. If it thunders, dreams will seem more numerous to men. 13. If it thunders, it threatens a profitable season but a pestilential one, and with intestinal worms it afflicts bodies. 14. If it thunders, reptiles harm men somewhat gently. 15. If it thunders, fish will be most abundant, but the water-dwelling creatures will suffer pestilence, and public affairs, as one might say, will be better. 16. If it thunders, there will be a generation of locusts and field mice, and danger for the king, and there will be abundance of grain. 17. If it thunders, it reveals abundant pasturage for cattle. 18. If it thunders, it reveals war and griefs for the more refined. 19. If it thunders, prosperity for women. 20. If it thunders, it reveals famine, but not for long. 21. If it thunders, the mice will perish, and there will be plenty not only of grain but also of pasturage, and a multitude of fish. 22. If it thunders, it reveals a good season. 23. If it thunders, a diseased wind will blow. 24. If it thunders, a fortress useful to the state will fall under enemies. 25. If it thunders, there will be dangerous war; and a diseased wind will blow. 26. If it thunders, it reveals civil war and the fall of many; and the rains will be pestilential. 27. If it thunders, it threatens the same things. 28. If it thunders, many of the senate will perish through despondency. 29. If it thunders, the worse will fare better, but the fruits to come will be destroyed. 30. If it thunders, men will live more beloved of God; and reasonably the evils will be moderate.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":52,"ref":"p52","source":"ΔΕΚΕΜΒΡΙΟΣ αʹ. Εἰ βροντήσῃ, εὐετηρίαν μεθ' ὁμονοίας δηλοῖ. βʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, ἀφθονία ἰχθύων καὶ καρπῶν διαφερόντως. γʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, τοῖς θρέμμασιν ἄνθρωποι καταχρήσονται δι' ἔνδειαν ἰχθύων. δʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, βαρὺς ἔσται χειμών, εὐθηνία δὲ ὅμως. εʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, νόσους ψωρώδεις ἀπειλεῖ. ςʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, αἰσίους ὀνείρους οἱ ἄνθρωποι ἐνυπνιασθήσονται, οἳ κακὸν πέρας ἕξουσιν. ζʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, τὸ αὐτὸ δηλοῖ πᾶσιν. ηʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, νότος ἐπικρατήσει· ἐξ οὗ εὐθηνία μὲν καρπῶν ἔσται, ὄλεθρος δὲ θρεμμάτων. θʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, κλεινοῦ ἀνδρὸς πτῶσις ἔσται. ιʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, φθορὰν ἀνθρώποις ἐκ νοσημάτων ἀπειλεῖ, οἱ δὲ ἰχθύες ἐπιδώσουσιν. ιαʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, καυσώδης ἡ θερινὴ ἔσται τροπή, καὶ ἀφθονία ἐπείσακτος. ιβʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, ἐκ γαστρορροίας νόσους ἀπειλεῖ. ιγʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, εὐθηνίαν, νόσους δὲ ἀπειλεῖ. ιδʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, ἐμφύλιον ἅμα πόλεμον καὶ εὐθηνίαν δηλοῖ. ιεʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, πολλοὶ ἐπὶ πόλεμον πορεύσονται, ὀλίγοι δὲ ἀναστρέψουσιν. ιςʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, καινοπρεπῆ πράγματα ἐπὶ τῆς πολιτείας. ιζʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, ἀκρίδας φύσεσθαι λεπτὰς ἀπειλεῖ, εὐθηνίαν δὲ ὅμως. ιηʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, πόλεμος ἔσται βαρύς. ιθʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, ἐπίτασιν τοῦ πολέμου ἀπειλεῖ. κʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, ἔνδειαν τῶν ἀναγκαίων λέγει. καʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, ἄνεμον θερμὸν καὶ νοσοποιὸν ῥεῦσαι ἀπειλεῖ. κβʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, καυσῶδες ἔσται τὸ θέρος καὶ πολύκαρπον. κγʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, ἀνθρώποις νόσον δηλοῖ, ἀλλ' ἀκίνδυνον. κδʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, ἐμφυλίους πολέμους τῇ πόλει καὶ ὄλεθρον τοῖς ὑλαίοις θηρίοις ἀπειλεῖ. κεʹ.","english":"DECEMBER 1. If it thunders, it signifies fair weather with concord. 2. If it thunders, abundance of fish and fruits beyond measure. 3. If it thunders, men will make excessive use of the livestock through scarcity of fish. 4. If it thunders, the winter will be severe, but nevertheless prosperity. 5. If it thunders, it threatens scabby diseases. 6. If it thunders, men will dream auspicious dreams, which will have a bad end. 7. If it thunders, it signifies the same for all. 8. If it thunders, the south wind will prevail; from which there will be prosperity of fruits, but destruction of livestock. 9. If it thunders, there will be the fall of a renowned man. 10. If it thunders, it threatens destruction for men from diseases, but the fish will increase. 11. If it thunders, the summer turning will be scorching, and abundance will be imported. 12. If it thunders, it threatens diseases from a flux of the belly. 13. If it thunders, it threatens prosperity, but also diseases. 14. If it thunders, it signifies civil war and prosperity together. 15. If it thunders, many will go to war, but few will return. 16. If it thunders, strange novelties in the state. 17. If it thunders, it threatens that slender locusts will breed, but nevertheless prosperity. 18. If it thunders, the war will be severe. 19. If it thunders, it threatens an intensification of the war. 20. If it thunders, it speaks of a scarcity of necessities. 21. If it thunders, it threatens that a hot and disease-bringing wind will flow. 22. If it thunders, the summer will be scorching and fruitful. 23. If it thunders, it signifies disease for men, but without danger. 24. If it thunders, it threatens civil wars for the city and destruction for the beasts of the forest. 25.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":53,"ref":"p53","source":"εἰ βροντήσῃ, ἐκστρατείας κίνησις ἐπὶ πόλεμον, ἀλλ' εὐτυχήσει. κςʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, νόσους τοῖς θεράπουσιν ἀπειλεῖ. κζʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, ὁ βασιλεὺς πολλοὺς ὠφελήσει. κηʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, ἀκρίδων γένεσις. κθʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, ἰσχνότητα τοῖς σώμασιν ὑγιεινὴν δηλοῖ. λʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, ἀνταρσίαν κατὰ τῆς βασιλείας δηλοῖ καὶ εἰκότως πόλεμον.\n\n34 ΙΑΝΟΥΑΡΙΟΣ αʹ. Εἰ βροντήσῃ, ἐλαφρὸς ἄνεμος ῥεύσει, ἀλλ' ἀκίνδυνος. βʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, ἀδόκητος ἔσται πόλεμος. γʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, μετὰ νίκην ἧτταν τοῖς ἐν πολέμῳ φράζει· εὐθηνία δὲ ἔσται. δʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, ὁμονοήσει ὁ δῆμος πρὸς εἰρήνην. εʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, ὑγίειαν τοῖς κτήνεσι σημαίνει. ςʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, βηχώδη νόσον ἀπειλεῖ, ἀφθονίαν δὲ ἰχθύων καὶ καρπῶν δηλοῖ. ζʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, δουλομαχία ἔσται καὶ νόσος συχνή. ηʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, ὁ δυνάστης τῆς πολιτείας πρὸς τοῦ δήμου κινδυνεύσει. θʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, ὁ τῆς ἀνατολῆς βασιλεὺς κινδυνεύσει. ιʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, ἀνέμου κίνησιν σφοδρὰν καὶ σίτου μὲν","english":"If it thunders, there will be a stirring of military expeditions for war, but it will turn out well. 26. If it thunders, it threatens diseases for servants. 27. If it thunders, the king will benefit many. 28. If it thunders, a generation of locusts. 29. If it thunders, it signifies a healthful leanness for bodies. 30. If it thunders, it signifies insurrection against the kingdom and, reasonably, war.\n\n34 JANUARY 1. If it thunders, a light wind will blow, but without danger. 2. If it thunders, there will be an unexpected war. 3. If it thunders, it foretells defeat after victory for those in war; but there will be prosperity. 4. If it thunders, the people will be of one mind for peace. 5. If it thunders, it signifies health for the livestock. 6. If it thunders, it threatens a coughing disease, and signifies abundance of fish and fruits. 7. If it thunders, there will be strife of slaves and frequent disease. 8. If it thunders, the ruler of the state will be in danger from the people. 9. If it thunders, the king of the east will be in danger. 10. If it thunders, a violent stirring of wind and of grain","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":54,"ref":"p54","source":"εὐφορίαν τῶν δ' ἄλλων καρπῶν ἀφορίαν δηλοῖ. ιαʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, λιμὸν σημαίνει καὶ μέχρις ἀλόγων. ιβʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, οἱ ἄνθρωποι τὰς ὄψεις νοσήσουσιν, ἔσται δὲ πολὺς χόρτος καὶ ἰχθύων ἐπίδοσις. ιγʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, νόσους ἀπειλεῖ. ιδʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, σπάνιν καὶ μυῶν γένεσιν καὶ ὄλεθρον τετραπόδων ἀπειλεῖ. ιεʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, στάσιν δουλικὴν καὶ τιμωρίαν αὐτοῖς καὶ εὐθηνίαν καρπῶν. ιςʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, ὁ δῆμος ὑπὸ τοῦ βασιλέως ταραχθήσεται. ιζʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, νόσους ἀκινδύνους ἀπειλεῖ. ιηʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, πράγματα ἐκδειματοῦντα τὸν δῆμον ἀναστήσεται. ιθʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, καὶ ὁ βασιλεὺς νικήσει καὶ ὁ δῆμος τὴν κρείττονα ἕξει τάξιν. κʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, εὐθηνία μὲν ἐπείσακτος ἔσται, βηχώδης δὲ νόσος ἐνοχλήσει τοῖς σώμασιν. καʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, ὁ βασιλεὺς πολλοῖς ἐπιβουλεύσας τέλος ἐπιβουλεύεται. κβʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, εὐθηνία μὲν ἔσται, μυῶν δὲ καὶ ἐλάφων πλῆθος. κγʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, εὐταξίαν τῇ πόλει δηλοῖ. κδʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, νόσον μετὰ ἐνδείας δηλοῖ. κεʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, δουλομαχία ἔσται. κςʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, πολλοὶ πρὸς τοῦ κρατοῦντος ἀναιρεθήσονται, τέλος δὲ καὶ αὐτός. κζʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, νόσους ἀκινδύνους δηλοῖ. κηʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, οἱ μὲν ἐνάλιοι ἰχθύες ἐπιδώσουσι, τὰ δὲ θρέμματα φθαρήσεται. κθʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, λοιμικὸν καὶ νοσῶδες ἐπὶ πᾶσι τὸ τοῦ ἀέρος κατάστημα. λʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, θάνατον συχνὸν ἀπειλεῖ.","english":"It indicates abundance of the other fruits, but scarcity. 11. If it thunders, it signifies famine, extending even to irrational animals. 12. If it thunders, people will suffer diseases of the eyes, but there will be much grass and an increase of fish. 13. If it thunders, it threatens diseases. 14. If it thunders, it threatens scarcity, a generation of mice, and destruction of four-footed animals. 15. If it thunders, servile sedition and punishment for them, and abundance of fruits. 16. If it thunders, the people will be thrown into confusion by the king. 17. If it thunders, it threatens diseases without danger. 18. If it thunders, affairs that terrify the people will arise. 19. If it thunders, both the king will conquer and the people will have the better order. 20. If it thunders, there will be imported abundance, but a coughing disease will trouble bodies. 21. If it thunders, the king, having plotted against many, will in the end be plotted against. 22. If it thunders, there will be abundance, but a multitude of mice and deer. 23. If it thunders, it signifies good order for the city. 24. If it thunders, it signifies disease together with want. 25. If it thunders, there will be servile war. 26. If it thunders, many will be killed by the ruler, and in the end he himself as well. 27. If it thunders, it signifies diseases without danger. 28. If it thunders, the sea fish will increase, but the livestock will perish. 29. If it thunders, the condition of the air will be pestilential and diseased in all respects. 30. If it thunders, it threatens frequent death.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":55,"ref":"p55","source":"35 ΦΕΒΡΟΥΑΡΙΟΣ αʹ. Εἰ βροντήσῃ, πόλεμον καὶ πτῶσιν ἀνδρῶν εὐπόρων ἀπειλεῖ. βʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, ὁ μὲν σῖτος ἐλάττων, ἡ δὲ κριθὴ κρείττων, καὶ θηρίων μὲν αὔξησις, φθίσις δὲ ἀνθρώπων ἔσται. γʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, ἐμφύλιος ἔσται στάσις. δʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, οἱ ἄνθρωποι οὐ προσώποις μόνον ἀλλὰ καὶ διανοίαις αὐταῖς ταραχθήσονται. εʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, ἄμητος πολὺς καὶ ἀνθρώπων ἀπώλεια ἔσται. ςʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, φθορὰ τῶν ξηρῶν καρπῶν, καὶ διαφερόντως τῶν κριθῶν. ζʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, φθορὰν οὐκ εἰς μακρὰν ἀνθρώποις ἀπειλεῖ. ηʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, πρᾶγμα μέγιστον ἀναφύσεται τῇ πολιτείᾳ, καὶ οἱ μὲν ἰχθύες ἐπιδώσουσι, τὰ δὲ θηρία φθαρήσεται. θʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, ἐλάττων ἡ κριθή. ιʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, τὰ θηρία τοῖς ἀνθρώποις λυμανεῖται. ιαʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, εὐτοκία γυναικῶν. ιβʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, θάνατον συχνὸν ἀπειλεῖ καὶ ἀνέμους ἀήθεις. ιγʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, εὐθηνία μὲν ἔσται, στάσις δὲ ὅμως πολιτική. ιδʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, ἀποβολὴν τέκνων καὶ ἔφοδον ἑρπετῶν ἐπιβλαβῆ ἀπειλεῖ. ιεʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, λοιμικὸς ἀὴρ ἔσται, θηρίων τε καὶ μυῶν γένεσις. ιςʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, τῷ μὲν δήμῳ αἴσιον, τοῖς δὲ δυνατοῖς ἐκ διχονοίας κακόν. ιζʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, θέρος ἔσται ἀφθονώτατον. ιηʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, ἄνεμον βαρὺν καὶ φλυκταινῶν ἀνάστημα τοῖς σώμασιν ἀπειλεῖ. ιθʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, ἑρπετῶν καὶ ἑλμίνθων πρὸς αὐτοῖς ὄχλος ἔσται. κʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, καλοὺς ἀέρας δηλοῖ. καʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, εὐθηνίαν δηλοῖ. κβʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, ἐπίνοσος ὁ ἀήρ, ἀλλ' οὐ φθαρτικὸς ἔσται. κγʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, ἀνθρώποις μὲν δυσμορφίαν, ὀρνέοις δὲ φθορὰν ἀπειλεῖ. κδʹ.","english":"FEBRUARY 1. If it thunders, it threatens war and the fall of wealthy men. 2. If it thunders, grain will be less, but barley better, and there will be an increase of wild beasts and a wasting away of men. 3. If it thunders, there will be civil strife. 4. If it thunders, men will be disturbed not only in their faces but in their very minds. 5. If it thunders, there will be a great harvest and a destruction of men. 6. If it thunders, destruction of dry fruits, and especially of barley. 7. If it thunders, it threatens men with destruction before long. 8. If it thunders, a very great matter will spring up for the state, and fish will increase, but wild beasts will perish. 9. If it thunders, barley will be less. 10. If it thunders, wild beasts will ravage men. 11. If it thunders, easy childbirth for women. 12. If it thunders, it threatens frequent death and unseasonable winds. 13. If it thunders, there will be abundance, yet nevertheless civil strife. 14. If it thunders, it threatens loss of children and a harmful invasion of reptiles. 15. If it thunders, the air will be pestilential, and there will be a generation of wild beasts and mice. 16. If it thunders, it is auspicious for the common people, but evil for the powerful through discord. 17. If it thunders, the summer will be most abundant. 18. If it thunders, it threatens a heavy wind and a breaking out of pustules on bodies. 19. If it thunders, there will be a multitude of reptiles and worms besides them. 20. If it thunders, it indicates fine weather. 21. If it thunders, it indicates abundance. 22. If it thunders, the air will be sickly, but not destructive. 23. If it thunders, it threatens ugliness for men and destruction for birds. 24.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":56,"ref":"p56","source":"εἰ βροντήσῃ, ὑγίειαν μὲν ἀνθρώποις, ἰχθύσι δὲ καὶ ἑρπετοῖς ὄλεθρον ἀπειλεῖ. κεʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, τοῖς τρυφῶσιν ἐναντίον· πόλεμοι γὰρ ἔσονται, καὶ ζάλη βαρεῖα. κςʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, αὐχμὸν καὶ λειψυδρίαν καὶ ψώρωσιν τοῖς σώμασιν ἀπειλεῖ. κζʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, στάσιν τῷ δήμῳ δηλοῖ. κηʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, εὐθηνίαν μέν, ἄνεμον δὲ νοσοποιὸν ῥεῦσαι μαντεύεται. κθʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, πόλεμον καὶ εὐθηνίαν δηλοῖ. λʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, ἀγαθὰ σημαίνει μετὰ μακρᾶς τινος τοῦ δήμου διχοστασίας. ΜΑΡΤΙΟΣ αʹ. Εἰ βροντήσῃ, ἅπαν τὸ ἔτος ἁψιμαχίαι καὶ διχόνοιαι ἔσονται. βʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, παύσεται τὰ προαπειλούμενα. γʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, κακοδαιμονία μετὰ ἐνδείας τοῖς\n\nπράγμασιν. δʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, εὐθηνία ἀφθονωτάτη ἔσται. εʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, εὐήλιον τὸ ἔαρ καὶ εὔκαρπον τὸ θέρος ἔσται. ςʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, ὅμοια τοῖς πρὸ ταύτης. ζʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, ἄνεμος βαρὺς ἀναστήσεται, ὁ δὲ κρατῶν τὰ πράγματα κινήσει. ηʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, βροχὰς σημαίνει. θʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, φθορὰν μὲν ἀνθρώπων, γένεσιν δὲ θηρίων ἀπειλεῖ. ιʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, φθορὰ τοῖς τετραπόδοις. ιαʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, κατομβρίαν καὶ ἀκρίδων γένεσιν δηλοῖ. ιβʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, δυνατὸς τοῦ πολιτεύματος ἢ στρατηγὸς κινδυνεύσει, διὸ μάχαι συρραγήσονται, καὶ τὰ θηρία τοῖς ἀνθρώποις ἐπέλθῃ. ιγʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, εὐθηνία ἔσται, τὰ δὲ θηρία φθαρήσεται, καὶ οἱ ἰχθύες ἐπιδώσουσι· καὶ ἑρπετὰ τοῖς οἰκήμασιν ἐνοχλήσει, οὐ μὴν βλάψει. ιδʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, εὐθηνίαν μὲν σημαίνει, θάνατον δὲ ἀνθρώπων καὶ γένεσιν θηρίων ἀπειλεῖ. ιεʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, καύματα σημαίνει καὶ λειψυδρίαν καὶ μυῶν ὄχλον καὶ ἰχθύων πολύν. ιςʹ.","english":"If it thunders, it threatens health for men, but destruction for fish and reptiles. 25. If it thunders, it is contrary to the luxurious; for there will be wars, and a heavy storm. 26. If it thunders, it threatens drought and scarcity of water and a breaking out on bodies. 27. If it thunders, it reveals sedition for the people. 28. If it thunders, it prophesies that prosperity will flow, but a disease-bringing wind. 29. If it thunders, it reveals war and prosperity. 30. If it thunders, it signifies good things after some long dissension of the people. MARCH 1. If it thunders, the whole year will be full of skirmishes and discords. 2. If it thunders, the things previously threatened will cease. 3. If it thunders, misfortune with want for affairs. 4. If it thunders, there will be most abundant prosperity. 5. If it thunders, the spring will be sunny and the summer fruitful. 6. If it thunders, the same as those before this. 7. If it thunders, a heavy wind will arise, and the one who governs affairs will stir them up. 8. If it thunders, it signifies rains. 9. If it thunders, it threatens destruction of men, but birth of wild beasts. 10. If it thunders, destruction for four-footed beasts. 11. If it thunders, it reveals heavy rain and a generation of locusts. 12. If it thunders, a powerful man of the state or a general will be in danger, wherefore battles will be joined, and the wild beasts will attack men. 13. If it thunders, there will be prosperity, and the wild beasts will be destroyed, and the fish will increase; and reptiles will trouble the dwellings, but will not harm. 14. If it thunders, it signifies prosperity, but threatens death of men and birth of wild beasts. 15. If it thunders, it signifies heat and scarcity of water and a multitude of mice and many fish. 16.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":57,"ref":"p57","source":"εἰ βροντήσῃ, ὑγιεινὸν μὲν τὸ ἔτος, ἀλλ' ἐνδεὲς τῶν ἐπιτηδείων. ιζʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, πρᾶγμα παράδοξον τῷ δήμῳ συμβήσεται, συχνὴ δὲ φθορὰ ἀνθρώποις τε καὶ θηρίοις τετράποσιν. ιηʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, κατομβρίαν καὶ νόσον καὶ ἀκρίδων γένεσιν καὶ ἐγγὺς ἀκαρπίαν δηλοῖ. ιθʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, αὐχμὸς ξηρότατος καὶ φθοροποιός. κʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, εὐπορώτερον οἱ ἄνθρωποι ἅμα καὶ ἀφθονώτερον ζήσονται. καʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, εὐθηνίαν μετὰ πολέμους καὶ φθορώδεις αὐχμοὺς δηλοῖ. κβʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, φθορὰν μὲν ὀρνέων, ἐπίδοσιν δὲ τῶν ἐπιτηδείων. κγʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, στάσεις δηλοῖ. κδʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, εὐθηνίαν σημαίνει. κεʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, καινὰ πράγματα τῷ δήμῳ ἀναφύεται. κςʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, κτῆσιν ἐπεισάκτων ἀνδραπόδων δηλοῖ. κζʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, ἐπείσακτον εὐθηνίαν δηλοῖ. κηʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, ἀφθονία ἰχθύων θαλαττίων ἔσται. κθʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, αἱ γυναῖκες τῆς κρείττονος δόξης ἀνθέξονται. λʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, δυνατός τις τῆς βασιλείας ἐγκρατὴς ἔσται, δι' οὗ εὐφροσύνη. ΑΠΡΙΛΙΟΣ αʹ. Εἰ βροντήσῃ, ἐμφύλιον στάσιν καὶ ἀποπτώσεις οὐσιῶν ἀπειλεῖ. βʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, δίκης σημεῖον, ἐσθλοῖς ἐσθλὰ φερούσης καὶ φαύλοις φαῦλα. γʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, κέρδη ἐξ ἐπεισάκτου εὐθηνίας δηλοῖ. δʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, ὀργὴν τῶν κρειττόνων ἀπειλεῖ τοῖς ἀξίοις. εʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, αὐχμὸν μὲν τῷ ἦρι, ὑγιεινὸν δὲ τὸν ἐνιαυτὸν σημαίνει. ςʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, πόλεμοι ἐμφύλιοι ἀναστήσονται. ζʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, ἀγαθὰ πάντα καὶ ἄφθονον εὐετηρίαν δηλοῖ. ηʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, κατομβρίαν δηλοῖ ἐπίνοσον. θʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, νίκην τῇ βασιλείᾳ δηλοῖ καὶ τοῖς δυνατοῖς εὐφροσύνην. ιʹ.","english":"If it thunders, the year will be healthy, but lacking in provisions. 17. If it thunders, an unexpected event will befall the people, and there will be great destruction for men and for four-footed beasts. 18. If it thunders, it signifies heavy rain, disease, a generation of locusts, and barrenness near at hand. 19. If it thunders, a most severe and destructive drought. 20. If it thunders, men will live more prosperously and at the same time more abundantly. 21. If it thunders, it signifies prosperity after wars and destructive droughts. 22. If it thunders, destruction of birds, but increase of provisions. 23. If it thunders, it signifies civil strife. 24. If it thunders, it signifies prosperity. 25. If it thunders, new circumstances spring up for the people. 26. If it thunders, it signifies the acquisition of imported slaves. 27. If it thunders, it signifies imported prosperity. 28. If it thunders, there will be abundance of sea fish. 29. If it thunders, women will take hold of greater repute. 30. If it thunders, some powerful man will gain control of the kingdom, through whom there will be gladness. APRIL 1. If it thunders, it threatens civil strife and losses of property. 2. If it thunders, a sign of justice, bringing good things to the good and bad things to the bad. 3. If it thunders, it signifies profits from imported prosperity. 4. If it thunders, it threatens the anger of the powers above against those who deserve it. 5. If it thunders, it signifies drought for the spring, but a healthy year. 6. If it thunders, civil wars will arise. 7. If it thunders, it signifies all good things and abundant fertility. 8. If it thunders, it signifies heavy rain bringing disease. 9. If it thunders, it signifies victory for the kingdom and gladness for the powerful. 10.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":58,"ref":"p58","source":"εἰ βροντήσῃ, ἀνδρῶν ἀγαθῶν προκοπαὶ ἔσονται. ιαʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, τὰ αὐτὰ σημαίνει. ιβʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, βροχὰς καὶ εὐθηνίας καὶ φθορὰν ἰχθύων δηλοῖ. ιγʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, ἀνθρώποις καὶ κτήνεσι φθορὰν ἀπειλεῖ. ιδʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, ὑγίειαν καὶ εὐθηνίαν δηλοῖ. ιεʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, λοιμὸν σημαίνει. ιςʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, εὐθηνίαν μέν, μυῶν δὲ ἀρουραίων γένεσιν δηλοῖ. ιζʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, ἀφθονίαν τῶν ἐπιτηδείων σημαίνει. ιηʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, διχόνοιαν καὶ ἀνδρῶν ἀστοχίαν σημαίνει. ιθʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, δυνατὸς ἀνὴρ τῆς πολιτείας οὐσίας ἅμα καὶ δόξης ἀφαιρεθήσεται. κʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, θεοχολωσίαν σημαίνει. καί. εἰ βροντήσῃ, τοῖς μὲν καρποῖς δεξιόν, τῇ δὲ πολιτείᾳ πόλεμον σημαίνει. κβʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, φθορὰ τῶν μυῶν ἔσται. κγʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, βροχὴν ὠφέλιμον τοῖς σπορίμοις δηλοῖ. κδʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, διχόνοια ἔσται τῶν δυνατῶν, τὰ δὲ σκέμματα αὐτῶν ἀναφανήσεται. κεʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, εἰρήνη ἀνὰ πάντα τὸν ἐνιαυτόν. κςʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, ἐλπίδα καρπῶν μεγάλην καὶ ἀμήτων σπάνιν δηλοῖ. κζʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, διοσημεία παράδοξος ὀφθήσεται. κηʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, ὅπλοις ὁ δῆμος ἀναζώσεται. κθʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, ἐπικρατήσει ὁ ζέφυρος. λʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, πραγμάτων καλῶν ἐπομβρία. ΜΑΙΟΣ αʹ. Εἰ βροντήσῃ, φυγὴν τῷ δήμῳ καὶ ἀτιμίαν δηλοῖ. βʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, λιμὸν ἀπειλεῖ. γʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, ἐπείσακτον εὐθηνίαν δηλοῖ. δʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, εὔκρατος ἀήρ, καὶ οἱ καρποὶ εὐθηνοὶ ἔσονται. εʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, ἐναλλαγὴ τῶν λυπηρῶν τοῖς πράγμασιν ἔσται, καὶ πλείων ὁ σῖτος ἤπερ ἡ κριθή· τὰ δὲ","english":"If it thunders, there will be advancements for good men. 11. If it thunders, it signifies the same things. 12. If it thunders, it indicates rains and abundance and destruction of fish. 13. If it thunders, it threatens destruction for men and for cattle. 14. If it thunders, it indicates health and abundance. 15. If it thunders, it signifies pestilence. 16. If it thunders, it indicates abundance, but a generation of field mice. 17. If it thunders, it signifies an abundance of provisions. 18. If it thunders, it signifies discord and failure of men. 19. If it thunders, a powerful man of the state will be deprived of his substance and his glory at the same time. 20. If it thunders, it signifies the wrath of God. 21. If it thunders, it signifies what is favorable for crops, but war for the state. 22. If it thunders, there will be destruction of mice. 23. If it thunders, it indicates rain beneficial to sown fields. 24. If it thunders, there will be discord among the powerful, and their designs will be brought to light. 25. If it thunders, peace throughout the whole year. 26. If it thunders, it indicates great hope of crops and a scarcity of harvests. 27. If it thunders, a portentous sign from heaven will be seen. 28. If it thunders, the people will be girded anew with arms. 29. If it thunders, the west wind will prevail. 30. If it thunders, a downpour of good things. MAY 1. If it thunders, it indicates flight for the people and dishonor. 2. If it thunders, it threatens famine. 3. If it thunders, it indicates imported abundance. 4. If it thunders, the air will be temperate, and the crops will be abundant. 5. If it thunders, there will be a reversal of sorrows in affairs, and wheat will be more plentiful than barley; but the","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":59,"ref":"p59","source":"ὄσπρια φθαρήσεται. ςʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, θᾶττον ἀκμάσαι τοὺς καρποὺς καὶ φθαρῆναι δηλοῖ. ζʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, ὀρνέων καὶ ἰχθύων ἀφθονία ἔσται. ηʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, ἀπαίσιον τῷ δήμῳ. θʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, λοιμὸν σημαίνει, ἀλλὰ μετρίως ἐπικίνδυνον. ιʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, ταραχὰς κατομβρίας καὶ ὑπερχύσεις ποταμῶν ἐπιβλαβεῖς δηλοῖ, σαυρῶν τε καὶ ἑρπετῶν πλῆθος. ιαʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, εὐθηνίαν κατά τε τὴν γῆν κατά τε τὴν θάλασσαν ἐλπιστέον. ιβʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, φθορὰ ἰχθύων ἔσται. ιγʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, ἐπίδοσιν ποταμίων ὑδάτων δηλοῖ, νόσους δὲ τοῖς ἀνθρώποις. ιδʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, ἀνατολικὸς ἔσται πόλεμος καὶ φθορὰ πολλή. ιεʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, εὐθηνίαν δηλοῖ. ιςʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, εὔχεσθαι δεῖ διὰ τὰ ἀπειλούμενα. ιζʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, ὑετὸν σημαίνει. ιηʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, στάσιν καὶ ἐξ αὐτῆς πόλεμον καὶ ἔνδειαν τῶν ἐπιτηδείων. ιθʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, εὐνοίᾳ τοῦ δήμου ἀνήρ τις εἰς ἄκρον εὐδαιμονίας ἀρθήσεται. κʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, τοῖς μὲν περὶ τὴν ἀνατολὴν εὐθηνία, τοῖς δὲ ἐπὶ δύσιν οὐχ οὕτως. καʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, εὐχῶν δεῖ διὰ τὰ ἀπειλούμενα. κβʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, κατομβρίαν καὶ φθορὰν τῶν θαλαττίων ἰχθύων σημαίνει. κγʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, εὐομβρίαν καρποφόρον δηλοῖ. κδʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, μεγάλα κακά, ὡς ἐξ ἀθυμίας λειποθυμῆσαι τοὺς ὑπηκόους. κεʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, ἀνάπαυλαν καὶ ὕφεσιν τῶν κακῶν ἐλπιστέον. κςʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, καλὸν τοῖς περὶ γεωργίαν ἔχουσιν. κζʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, διοσημεία ἔσται καὶ κομήτης ἐξαφθήσεται. κηʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, ὡσαύτως ἔσται. κθʹ. εἰ βροντήσῃ, πόλεμον ἀρκτῷον σημαίνει, ἀλλ' ἀκίνδυνον τοῖς πράγμασιν. λʹ.","english":"Legumes will be destroyed. 6. If it thunders, it signifies that the fruits will ripen quickly and be destroyed. 7. If it thunders, there will be abundance of birds and fish. 8. If it thunders, it is an evil omen for the people. 9. If it thunders, it signifies pestilence, but moderately dangerous. 10. If it thunders, it signifies disturbances of heavy rain and harmful overflows of rivers, and a multitude of lizards and reptiles. 11. If it thunders, one must expect prosperity both on land and at sea. 12. If it thunders, there will be destruction of fish. 13. If it thunders, it signifies an increase of river waters, but diseases for men. 14. If it thunders, there will be an eastern war and great destruction. 15. If it thunders, it signifies prosperity. 16. If it thunders, one must pray because of the threats. 17. If it thunders, it signifies rain. 18. If it thunders, it signifies sedition and from it war and scarcity of provisions. 19. If it thunders, by the goodwill of the people a certain man will be raised to the height of prosperity. 20. If it thunders, prosperity for those in the east, but not so for those in the west. 21. If it thunders, prayers are needed because of the threats. 22. If it thunders, it signifies heavy rain and destruction of sea fish. 23. If it thunders, it signifies fruitful good rain. 24. If it thunders, great evils, so that from despondency the subjects will faint. 25. If it thunders, one must expect rest and relief from evils. 26. If it thunders, it is good for those concerned with farming. 27. If it thunders, there will be a sign from Zeus and a comet will be kindled. 28. If it thunders, it will be likewise. 29. If it thunders, it signifies a northern war, but not dangerous to affairs. 30.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":60,"ref":"p60","source":"εἰ βροντήσῃ, τὰ φυτὰ τῷ ἀνέμῳ συντριβήσεται. Ταύτην τὴν ἐφήμερον βροντοσκοπίαν ὁ Νιγίδιος οὐ καθολικὴν ἀλλὰ μόνης εἶναι τῆς Ῥώμης ἔκρινεν.\n\n3941 ΒΡΟΝΤΟΣΚΟΠΙΑ ΕΚ ΤΩΝ ΦΟΝΤΗΙΟΥ ΤΟΥ ΡΩΜΑΙΟΥ ΚΑΘ' ΕΡΜΗΝΕΙΑΝ ΠΡΟΣ ΛΕΞΙΝ Σελήνης ἐχούσης τὸν αἰγόκερων εἰ ἐν ἡμέρᾳ βροντὴ γένηται, τύραννον ἐπαναστήσεσθαι ἀπειλεῖ τοῖς ἀπὸ τῆς στενῆς θαλάσσης ἄχρι Νείλου χωρίοις, ἐκπεσεῖν δὲ ὅμως αὐτὸν τῆς ἐγχειρήσεως. οὐχ ἥκιστα δὲ καὶ τῶν ἐπιτηδείων ἔσται ἐλάττωσις. ὑπονοστήσει δὲ καὶ ὁ Νεῖλος, καὶ διχόνοια ἔσται τέκνοις πρὸς γονεῖς, καὶ ταραχαὶ τῶν ἀρχόντων ἐνίοις. Πέρ σαι δὲ καὶ οἱ τῆς Εὐρώπης τὸ δυτικὸν ἔχοντες ἠρεμήσουσιν. εἰ δὲ νυκτός, ἔθνη βάρβαρα κατ' ἀλλήλων ἐξενεχθήσεται, καὶ δογμάτων ἕνεκα τὰ τῆς Ῥωμαϊκῆς εἰρήνης σαλευθήσεται, καὶ τόπους δέ τινας τοῦ πολιτεύματος πολέμιοι πρὸς βραχὺ καθέξουσιν. ἄρχοντες ἐκ τῶν δυτικῶν ὁρμώμενοι ἡγήσονται παρανόμως τῶν κοινῶν. δυσδαίμονες δὲ ἔσονται οἱ τῶν ἀνθρώπων πλείους, καὶ χειμῶνες πικροί, καὶ ναυάγια, καὶ σάλοι σφαλεροί. Σελήνης ἐν ὑδροχόῳ οὔσης εἰ ἐν ἡμέρᾳ βροντήσῃ, κλεινῶν ἀνθρώπων καταλύσεις δηλοῖ ἐμπρησμούς τε βαρεῖς. καὶ ὁ μὲν ἄμητος ἱλαρός, ἀκρίσι δὲ καὶ θηρίοις ἐκβρωθήσεται, ἡ δὲ σταφυλὴ σφηξί. καὶ τὸ πάντων σχετλιώτερον, φάσματα τοῖς σώμασιν ἐνοχλήσει μετὰ νόσων, καὶ τῶν ὑδάτων διαμαρτήσει τὸ νόστιμον. καὶ οἱ μὲν ἐλάττονες τὰς τύχας ἐπὶ τὸ βέλτιον ἀνασπασθήσονται, οἱ δὲ μείζους ἐπὶ τὸ χεῖρον ἐκπεσοῦνται. ἀμετρία τε τῶν νόμων τὴν εἰρήνην ταράξει, καὶ ἐθνικῶν ἔσται ἐπὶ τῆς πολιτείας πάροδος.","english":"If it thunders, the plants will be crushed by the wind. Nigidius judged that this daily thunder-inspection was not universal but concerned only Rome.\n\n3941 THUNDER-INSPECTION FROM THE FONTEIUS OF ROME, TRANSLATED WORD FOR WORD. When the moon is in Capricorn, if thunder occurs by day, it threatens that a tyrant will rise up against the regions from the narrow sea as far as the Nile, but that he will nevertheless fail in his undertaking. And there will be no small reduction of provisions. The Nile will also subside, and there will be discord of children against parents, and disturbances of the rulers among some. But the Persians and those of Europe who hold the west will be at peace. If it happens by night, barbarian nations will be stirred up against one another, and for the sake of doctrines the affairs of Roman peace will be shaken, and enemies will briefly occupy certain places of the commonwealth. Rulers setting out from the western regions will lead public affairs lawlessly. And the majority of men will be wretched, and there will be bitter storms, and shipwrecks, and perilous swells. When the moon is in Aquarius, if it thunders by day, it signifies the downfall of famous men and grievous conflagrations. The harvest will indeed be cheerful, but it will be devoured by locusts and wild beasts, and the vintage by wasps. And, most wretched of all, phantoms will trouble bodies together with diseases, and the wholesomeness of the waters will fail. And the lesser in fortune will be drawn up to the better, while the greater will fall to the worse. And excess of laws will disturb the peace, and there will be an inroad of foreign peoples upon the commonwealth.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":61,"ref":"p61","source":"εἰ δὲ νυκτὸς βροντήσῃ, ἀπολεγέτω μὲν τῇ εἰρήνῃ τὸ δυτικόν, ὁ δὲ ἄμητος τῆς Ἀσίας εὐκταιότατος, καὶ οἱ ἄρχοντες παρὰ τὸ κρατοῦν ἐν αὐτοῖς οὐ σφόδρα τοὺς ὑπηκόους λυπήσουσι. Σελήνης ἐν ἰχθύσιν οὔσης ἐὰν βροντὴ ἐν ἡμέρᾳ γένηται, ὑδάτων ἐπίδοσιν δηλοῖ οὐ ποταμίων μόνον ἀλλὰ καὶ θαλαττίων, ἀχλύν τε τῷ ἀέρι, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἀφανισμὸν τοῖς ἰχθύσιν ἀπειλεῖ. τὰ δὲ θηρία πρὸς τὰς παγίδας αὐτομολήσει· φυτεύειν δ' ὅμως φυτὰ ἐπευκταῖον. καὶ νοσῶδες μὲν τὸ\n\nκατάστημα, οἱ δὲ ἄρχοντες ἀνωμάλως διακείσονται. εἰ δὲ νυκτὸς Σελήνης οὔσης ἐν κριῷ ἐὰν βροντὴ γένηται ἐν ἡμέρᾳ, φυγὴν μὲν Ἀραβίοις, λοιμὸν δὲ Πέρσαις ἀπειλεῖ. εἰ δὲ νυκτί, Ἀσίαν καὶ Εὐρώπην ταράξουσι πολέμιοι, οἵ τε ναυτιλλόμενοι οὐκ ἔξω κινδύνων ἔσονται. καὶ ἀφθονία μὲν τῶν καρπῶν ἔσται, δυνατοῦ δὲ προσώπου πτῶσις· καὶ τὰ κοινὰ ἐγγὺς εὐθηνίας ἔσται. Σελήνης οὔσης ἐν ταύρῳ εἰ ἐν ἡμέρᾳ βροντήσῃ, ἐπομβρίαν δηλοῖ καὶ χαλαζώδη τὸν ἀέρα, καὶ ποταμῶν προχεύματα. καὶ ὁ μὲν ἰχθὺς ἄφθονος, οἱ δὲ περὶ τοὺς θαλαττίους πόρους ἀγρυπνοῦντες λυπηρότατοι. καὶ ὁ μὲν ἄμητος ἀγαθός, τοῖς δὲ κτήνεσι λοιμός. εἰ δὲ νύκτωρ, καρπῶν μὲν ἔνδειαν, ὑετῶδες δὲ καὶ χαλαζῶδες τὸ θερινὸν κατάστημα. ἄμβλωσίς τε γυναικῶν συμβήσεται, καὶ τὸ νόστιμον ὕδωρ ἐπιλείψει· καὶ κινήσεις μὲν στρατευμάτων λυπηραί, τῇ δὲ ἀνατολῇ τύραννος οὐκ εὐτυχὴς ἐνοχλήσει. Σελήνης οὔσης ἐν διδύμοις εἰ ἐν ἡμέρᾳ βροντήσῃ, θεοσεβέστατα ἔσται τὰ κοινά· εἰ δὲ ἐν νυκτί, τὰ ἐναντία.","english":"If it thunders at night, let the West take leave of peace, but the harvest of Asia will be most desirable, and the rulers will not greatly distress their subjects, contrary to what prevails among them. When the Moon is in the Fishes, if thunder occurs by day, it signifies an increase of waters, not only of rivers but also of the sea, and it threatens mist upon the air, and also destruction for the fish. But wild beasts will come of their own accord to the snares; nevertheless it is desirable to plant plants. And the condition is diseased, and the rulers will be in an irregular state. If, when the Moon is in the Ram, thunder occurs by day, it threatens flight for the Arabians and plague for the Persians. But if by night, enemies will trouble Asia and Europe, and those who sail will not be free from dangers. And there will be abundance of fruits, and the fall of a powerful personage; and public affairs will be near prosperity. When the Moon is in the Bull, if it thunders by day, it signifies heavy rain and a hailstormy air, and overflowings of rivers. And the fish will be abundant, but those who keep watch around the sea-passages will be most grievous. And the harvest will be good, but pestilence for the cattle. But if by night, a lack of fruits, and the summer condition will be rainy and hailstormy. And abortions of women will occur, and the returning water will fail; and movements of armies will be grievous, and an unhappy tyrant will trouble the East. When the Moon is in the Twins, if it thunders by day, public affairs will be most reverent toward the gods; but if by night, the opposite.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":62,"ref":"p62","source":"Σελήνης οὔσης ἐν καρκίνῳ εἰ ἐν ἡμέρᾳ βροντὴ γένηται καὶ νεκρὰ συμβαίη, ταραχαὶ τοῖς κοινοῖς πράγμασιν ἔσονται καινοτομίαι τε τοῖς πράγμασιν ἐπὶ τὸ χεῖρον· οἱ δὲ καρποὶ ψεύσονται. ἀλλὰ μὴν καὶ ἡ θάλασσα τοῖς ναυτιλλομένοις ὀλεθρία ἔσται, καὶ φθορὰ μὲν ἀνθρώπων, ἀφθονία δὲ ἰχθύων. εἰ δὲ ἐν νυκτί, Αἰθίοψι καὶ Πέρσαις ὄλεθρος ἐνσκήψει· τὰ δὲ δυτικὰ οὕτως λιμώξει, ὡς καὶ εἰς Αἴγυπτον δι' ἔνδειαν καταφυγεῖν. Σελήνης οὔσης ἐν λέοντι ἐὰν βροντὴν ἐν ἡμέρᾳ γενέσθαι συμβαίη, δόλον κατὰ τῆς βασιλείας μελετᾶσθαι δηλοῖ. καινισμοί τε νόσων ἔσονται, καὶ θάνατοι τοῦ πλήθους ἐκ τιμωριῶν. καὶ ὁ μὲν ἄμητος ἄφθονος ἔσται, ὑπὸ δὲ πολεμίων διαρπαγήσεται, καὶ διαφερόντως κατὰ τὸ δυτικόν. κατισχύσουσί τε καὶ ἀδικήσουσιν οἱ ὑπερέχοντες τὸ ὑπήκοον. εἰ δὲ νυκτός, καὶ οὕτως ἡ βασιλεία ἐπιβουλευθήσεται, καὶ μέρος τῆς ἀνατολῆς ὑπὸ βαρβάροις τελέσει. κατόμβρισις δὲ τοῖς ὑγροῖς καρποῖς λυμανεῖται. ἐπισυρήσονται δὲ τοῖς κτήνεσιν ἑρπετὰ θανατηφόρα· δυνατοὶ δὲ τῆς πολιτείας πεσοῦνται. Σελήνης οὔσης ἐν παρθένῳ εἰ ἐν ἡμέρᾳ βροντήσῃ, ὑγρότερον ἔσται τὸ τοῦ ἀέρος κατάστημα, ἀφθονία δὲ τῶν ξηρῶν καρπῶν, ὡς ἠρέμα πως ἐπιρρεπεστέρους γενέσθαι τοὺς ἀνθρώπους ἐπὶ τὰ πταίσματα. ἔσται δὲ καὶ φθορὰ τοῦ γυναικείου ἔθνους. εἰ δὲ νυκτός, λοιμὸς ἐνσκήψει τοῖς δυτικοῖς· τὰ δὲ θηρία οὕτως ἐπελεύσεται τοῖς ἀνθρώποις, ὡς φωλεοῖς αὐτοὺς ἐγκατακρύπτεσθαι· καὶ δυνατῶν δὲ ἀνδρῶν ἔσται πτῶσις, καὶ ἔνδεια ξηρῶν καρπῶν. Σελήνης οὔσης ἐν ζυγῷ εἰ ἐν ἡμέρᾳ βροντήσῃ, ἀγαθὰ ἐκδεχέσθωσαν ἄνθρωποι, ἐξῃρημένων Αἰγυπτίων.","english":"If the Moon is in Cancer and thunder occurs by day and a dead calm follows, there will be disturbances in public affairs and innovations in matters for the worse; and the crops will fail. Moreover, the sea will be deadly for sailors, and there will be destruction of men but abundance of fish. But if it happens by night, destruction will fall upon the Ethiopians and Persians; and the western regions will suffer famine so severely that people will flee to Egypt for want of food. If the Moon is in Leo and thunder happens to occur by day, it indicates that treachery is being plotted against the kingdom. There will also be new outbreaks of diseases, and deaths of the multitude from punishments. And the harvest will be abundant, but it will be plundered by enemies, and especially in the western region. And those in power will prevail over and wrong their subjects. But if it happens by night, the kingdom will likewise be plotted against, and a part of the East will be subject to barbarians. And heavy rain will ruin the moist crops. Deadly serpents will drag themselves against the cattle; and the powerful men of the state will fall. If the Moon is in Virgo and it thunders by day, the condition of the air will be rather moist, and there will be abundance of dry crops, so that men will become somewhat more inclined to failings. There will also be destruction of the female race. But if it happens by night, a plague will fall upon the western regions; and wild beasts will come upon men so that they hide themselves in dens; and there will be a fall of powerful men, and a scarcity of dry crops. If the Moon is in Libra and it thunders by day, let men expect good things, with the Egyptians excepted.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":63,"ref":"p63","source":"εἰ δὲ νυκτός, ἡ μὲν νεολαία ἐν ὅπλοις τελέσει καὶ ἐν πολέμοις φθαρήσεται, ἀφθονία γε μὴν τῶν καρπῶν ἔσται, ὑπὸ δὲ βαρβάρων δαπανηθήσεται. Σελήνης οὔσης ἐν σκορπίῳ ἐὰν ἐν ἡμέρᾳ βροντὴν ἢ ἀστραπὴν γενέσθαι συμβαίη, Ἀράβιοι ταραχθήσονται, ἔνδεια δὲ τῶν καρπῶν ἔσται, καὶ οἱ ἄνθρωποι κατ' ἀλλήλων χωρήσουσιν· Ἀσσυρία γε μὴν πιεσθήσεται λιμῷ. εἰ δὲ νυκτός, πυρκαϊαὶ μὲν ἔσονται, πτώσεις δὲ πόλεων παραλίων καὶ διαφθορὰ καρπῶν καὶ τετραπόδων, θηρίων δὲ παντοίων ἐπιδρομή· ὅθεν εὔχεσθαι δεῖ, ὅπως μὴ καὶ κεραυνῶν ἐνσκήψεσιν ἀναλωθῶσι. Σελήνης οὔσης ἐν τοξότῃ ἐὰν ἐν ἡμέρᾳ βροντήσῃ, Πέρσαις ἀφανισμὸν ἀπειλεῖ, καὶ ὁ βασιλεὺς δὲ αὐτῶν δολοφονηθήσεται, εὐκαρπία δὲ ἔσται καὶ χειμῶνες εὔδιοι ἔσονται, καὶ φθορὰ μὲν ἀνθρώπων, ἀνδραποδισμοὶ δὲ πόλεων. εἰ δὲ ἐν νυκτί, ἐπομβρίαν δηλοῖ, καὶ κάματον δὲ τοῖς ἐγκύμοσι καὶ νόσους καὶ θανάτους αἰφνιδίους, ὡς περιττεύειν μὲν τοὺς καρπούς, ἀπολείπεσθαι δὲ τοὺς δαπανῶντας. ἔσονται δὲ σάλοι καὶ ἄνεμοι βίαιοι, καὶ ἀφανισθήσεται ἀνὴρ δυνατὸς καὶ βαρὺς τοῖς πράγμασιν.","english":"But if it happens at night, the young men will be enlisted in arms and will perish in wars; yet there will be abundance of crops, but they will be consumed by barbarians. When the Moon is in Scorpio, if it happens that thunder or lightning occurs by day, the Arabians will be thrown into confusion, and there will be a scarcity of crops, and men will set upon one another; and Assyria indeed will be oppressed by famine. But if at night, there will be conflagrations, and falls of coastal cities, and destruction of crops and of four-footed beasts, and an incursion of wild beasts of every kind; wherefore one must pray that they may not also be destroyed by the onsets of thunderbolts. When the Moon is in Sagittarius, if it thunders by day, it threatens the Persians with annihilation, and their king will be treacherously murdered, and there will be good fruitfulness, and the winters will be fair, and there will be destruction of men, and enslavement of cities. But if at night, it indicates heavy rain, and toil for pregnant women, and diseases and sudden deaths, so that the crops abound, but those who would consume them are left behind. And there will be earthquakes and violent winds, and a powerful man, burdensome to public affairs, will be destroyed.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":64,"ref":"p64","source":"42 ΚΑΘΟΛΙΚΗ ΕΠΙΤΗΡΗΣΙΣ ΠΡΟΣ ΣΕΛΗΝΗΝ ΑΠΟ ΤΗΣ ΘΕΡΙΝΗΣ ΤΡΟΡΗΣ ΕΚ ΤΩΝ ΛΑΒΕΩΝΟΣ ΚΑΘ' ΕΡΜΗΝΕΙΑΝ ΠΡΟΣ ΛΕΞΙΝ Εἰ κατὰ τὴν ἑνδεκάτην τοῦ καρκίνου μοῖραν σελήνη εἴη ἐν κριῷ, ἔσονται ἀχλύες καὶ βρονταὶ καὶ χάλαζαι, ταραχαὶ δὲ τοῖς δένδροις ἐκ βιαιοτέρων πνευμάτων, καὶ ζάλη ἀερία, τίμιοί τε οἱ καρποί, καὶ αὐχμηρὸν τὸ περιέχον ἐκ λοιμικῆς θερμασίας. Εἰ δὲ ἐν ταύρῳ, ἔνδεια μὲν ἔσται τῶν ἐπιτηδείων, ἐλαίου δὲ διαφερόντως, τὰ μέντοι σταθμῷ ἀποδιδόμενα εὐτελῆ ἔσται. Ἐν διδύμοις γε μὴν οὔσης τῆς σελήνης ἐπὶ τῆς θερινῆς τροπῆς ἀμφίβολος ἔσται ὁ ἐνιαυτός· ἡγήσεται μὲν γὰρ ὑγρότης, ἕψεται δὲ ξηρότης, καὶ ὁ μὲν σῖτος ἐλάσσων, κρείττων δὲ ὁ οἶνος, καὶ οὐχ ἥκιστα τὸ ἔλαιον ἀφθονώτατα διαρκέσει.\n\nἘν καρκίνῳ δὲ οὔσης σελήνης ἐπὶ τῆς θερινῆς τροπῆς, ὡς προϋποδέδεικται ̣ 12̣, εὔφορος ὁ ἐνιαυτὸς ἔσται περὶ πάντας τοὺς καρπούς, ξηρούς τε καὶ ὑγρούς· εἰκότως οὖν εὐθηνίαν προσδοκητέον. Εἰ δὲ ἐπὶ τοῦ λέοντος σελήνης οὔσης ἡ θερινὴ συνέλθοι τροπή, βροντώδη καὶ θυελλώδη ἄν τις ἐκδέξαιτο τὸν ἀέρα· νεφώδης γὰρ ἔσται καὶ ἀχλυώδης, ὡς περιττευούσης τῆς ἐξ ὑπερῴων ὑγρασίας τοὺς μὲν ξηροὺς καρποὺς ἐλαττωθῆναι, τοὺς δὲ ὑγροὺς ἐπιδοῦναι. Ὅταν δὲ ἐπὶ τῆς θερινῆς τροπῆς σελήνη τὴν παρθένον ἔχῃ, στεῖρος μὲν καὶ ἐγγὺς ἄκαρπος ὁ ἐνιαυτός, ἐκ δὲ ἀδοκήτου περί τε τοὺς ξηροὺς καρποὺς καὶ ὑγροὺς ἔσται τις παραψυχή. Ἐν ζυγῷ οὖσα σελήνη εἰ τὴν θερινὴν καταλάβοι τροπήν, εὔφορον μὲν καὶ αὐτάρκη τὸν ἐνιαυτὸν ἐμφαίνει περὶ τοὺς ξηροὺς καρπούς, ὑγρὸν δὲ ὅμως καὶ ἔπομβρον·","english":"42 GENERAL OBSERVATION ON THE MOON AT THE SUMMER SOLSTICE, FROM THE TABLES OF LABEO, TRANSLATED WORD FOR WORD. If the Moon is in Aries at the eleventh degree of Cancer, there will be mists and thunder and hail, and disturbances to the trees from more violent winds, and a stirring of the air, and the fruits will be costly, and the surrounding atmosphere will be dry from pestilential heat. But if in Taurus, there will be a scarcity of provisions, and especially of oil, yet things sold by weight will be cheap. When the Moon is in Gemini at the summer solstice, the year will be doubtful; for moisture will lead and dryness will follow, and grain will be less, but wine better, and oil especially will abound most plentifully.\n\nBut when the Moon is in Cancer at the summer solstice, as has been shown beforehand, the year will be fruitful in all crops, both dry and wet; reasonably, then, abundance is to be expected. But if, when the Moon is in Leo, the summer solstice occurs, one would expect the air to be thundering and stormy; for it will be cloudy and misty, so that, with the moisture from above being excessive, the dry crops will be diminished, but the wet ones will increase. And when at the summer solstice the Moon has Virgo, the year will be barren and nearly fruitless, but unexpectedly there will be some relief for both dry and wet crops. If the Moon, being in Libra, reaches the summer solstice, it indicates a year fruitful and self-sufficient in dry crops, yet wet and rainy;","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":65,"ref":"p65","source":"καὶ τὰ σταθμῷ διδόμενα τίμια ἔσται, τὸ δὲ ἔλαιον σὺν καὶ τῷ οἴνῳ ἔσται τιμιώτατον. Ἐν σκορπίῳ σελήνης ἐπὶ τῆς μὲν θερινῆς τροπῆς τυγχανούσης ξηρὸς καὶ ὄψιμος ὁ ἐνιαυτὸς ἐπὶ τοῖς καρποῖς ἔσται, χαλαζώδης δὲ οὐχ ἥκιστα καὶ ταρακτικός· ὅ γε μὴν σπόρος, καὶ εἴ τι ὑπὸ γῆν, ἔξω ἐλπίδος· λιμὸς οὖν ἔσται πάντως καὶ φθορὰ τῶν ἀνθρώπων. Τοξότην ἐχούσης σελήνης ἐπὶ τῆς τοῦ θερινοῦ κέντρου τροπῆς, πλημμύρα ἔσται ὑδάτων ἀτμοί τε καὶ χαλαζώδεις ὄμβροι, καὶ φθορὰ τῶν πτηνῶν, καὶ ναυάγια οὐ μικρά, καὶ ἐλαττώσεις μὲν τῶν ὑγρῶν καρπῶν, ἀφθονία δὲ τῶν ξηρῶν. Ὅταν γε μὴν τὸν αἰγόκερων ἔχῃ σελήνη ἐπὶ τῆς ἐν θέρει τροπῆς, οὕτως ἐπομβρήσει ὁ ἀὴρ ὡς ἐμποδὼν γενέσθαι τῇ συναγωγῇ τῶν καρπῶν καὶ μεταμελῆσαι τοῖς γεωργοῖς τῆς ἐπὶ τῷ σπόρῳ σπουδῆς· ἐκ παραδόξου δὲ οἱονεὶ τῆς προνοίας οἴνου μὲν καὶ ἐλαίου ἀφθονία, ἥκιστα δὲ λοιμῶδες τὸ τοῦ ἀέρος κατάστημα. Τῷ δ' ὑδροχόῳ ἢ τοῖς ἰχθύσιν ἐνδιατριβούσης σελήνης τὰ αὐτὰ μὲν ἔσται σχεδὸν περὶ τὴν τῶν καρπῶν ἐκδοχήν, ἐλάττους δὲ ἔσονται οἱ ἰχθύες πρὸς αὐτούς, καὶ διαφερόντως οἱ ποτάμιοι καὶ ὅσοι θαλάσσης ἔξω μειωθήσονται.","english":"And the goods sold by weight will be dear, and olive oil together with wine will be most dear. When the Moon is in Scorpio at the summer solstice, the year will be dry and late for fruits, and not least hail-prone and turbulent; indeed the sowing, and whatever is under the earth, will be beyond hope; therefore there will certainly be famine and destruction of men. When the Moon is in Sagittarius at the summer solstice, there will be a flood of waters and vapors and hail-bearing rains, and destruction of birds, and no small shipwrecks, and a decrease of moist fruits, but abundance of dry ones. But whenever the Moon is in Capricorn at the summer solstice, the air will rain so much as to hinder the gathering of fruits and to make farmers regret their zeal in sowing; yet, as if by providence contrary to expectation, there will be abundance of wine and olive oil, and the state of the air will be least pestilential. When the Moon dwells in Aquarius or in Pisces, nearly the same things will happen regarding the expectation of fruits, but the fish will be fewer in number, and especially river fish and all those outside the sea will be diminished.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":66,"ref":"p66","source":"4346 ΠΕΡΙ ΚΕΡΑΥΝΩΝ Τὰς φύσεις τῶν πραγμάτων λέγειν, καὶ ὅπως γίνεσθαι κεραυνοὺς ἡ παλαιότης ὑπολαμβάνει, τοῖς ἀρχαιοτέροις ἀποχρώντως τῆς περὶ τῶν τοιούτων θεωρίας διαληφθείσης οὐ τούτου καιρός, οὐδὲ τὸ ἐπάγγελμα τουτὶ προύθηκεν, ἀλλ' ὅπως κατὰ τὴν Θούσκων παράδοσιν ἐπιγνωσθεῖεν οἱ κεραυνοί, τί ἄρα παραδηλοῦσιν ἐκπίπτοντες. ἐν τούτοις μὲν εἰδέναι χρὴ ὡς οὐ κατὰ πάντα τὸν ἐνιαυτὸν κεραυνοὶ ἀποθλίβονται· οὐδὲ γὰρ ἐπὶ θέρους ἢ ἐπὶ χειμῶνος τοῦτο συμβαίνειν πέφυκε καθόλου, ἀλλ' ἐν ἦρι ἢ μετοπώρῳ, περὶ τὴν πλειάδος καὶ ἀρκτούρου ἐπιτολήν. ὅθεν οὔτε ἐν Σκυθίᾳ ἢ συνελόντι εἰπεῖν ἐπὶ τὸ ἀρκτῷον κέντρον κεραυνοὺς βάλλεσθαι, οὔτε ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ ἤγουν\n\nἐπὶ τὸ νότιον, κέκριται, διὰ τὸ ψυχρὸν καὶ θερμὸν τοῦ κατὰ τοὺς χώρους ἐκείνους καταστήματος. ἐπὶ δὲ τῆς Ἰταλίας ὡς μάλιστα· εὔκρατος γὰρ σχεδὸν παρὰ πᾶν χωρίον ὁ κατ' ἐκείνην ἀήρ, ἀπὸ μὲν ἄρκτου πλευρᾶς ἑκατέρας τῷ βορρᾷ ἰάπυγί τε κώρῳ τε ἐξ Ἄλπεων καταπνεομένης πάσης τῆς ὑποκειμένης τῷ Ἀπεννίνῳ βαθείας, ἀπὸ δὲ τοῦ πρὸς λίβα νεύματος τῷ νότῳ, καὶ νότῳ οὐ τῷ ξηρῷ καὶ βαρεῖ ἀλλὰ τῷ γονιμωτάτῳ πάντων, οἷον εἶναι τοῦτον ἡ παρήκουσα πρὸς Γάδειρα ἐπὶ τὸ Ἀτλαντικὸν μεγάλη παρασκευάζει θάλασσα, κιρνῶσα ταῖς ψυχραῖς ἀναθυμιάσεσι τὴν ἀτμώδη καὶ λοιμικὴν τοῦ μεσημβρινοῦ νότου θερμότητα. καὶ τὸ δὴ πάντων τῇ χώρᾳ τῆς εὐκρασίας αἰτιώτατον, ἄνωθεν τῷ Ἰονίῳ, κάτωθεν δὲ τῷ Τυρσηνικῷ παρακλύζεται πελάγει. ὅθεν δίς τε τὰ θρέμματα τοῦ ἔτους ἀπογεννᾶν πέφυκε, τυρός τε οὐ λείπει οὔτ' ἐν θέρει οὔτ' ἐν ὀπώρῃ.\"2 τοιαῦτα μὲν ἄν τις περὶ Ἰταλίας εἴποι.","english":"Concerning Thunderbolts. To speak of the natures of things, and how thunderbolts come to be, as antiquity supposes, is not the occasion for this, since the ancients have sufficiently set out the theory concerning such matters; nor did this promise propose that, but rather how, according to the Etruscan tradition, thunderbolts may be recognized, and what they signify when they fall. In these matters one must know that thunderbolts are not squeezed out through the whole year; for it is not natural for this to happen in summer or in winter generally, but in spring or autumn, around the rising of the Pleiades and Arcturus. Wherefore it has been judged that thunderbolts are cast neither in Scythia, or to speak briefly, toward the northern region, nor in Egypt, that is, toward the southern, because of the cold and heat of the condition in those regions. But in Italy especially; for the air throughout that land is nearly everywhere temperate, since from both sides of the north the north wind and the Iapygian and Caurus blow down from the Alps over all the deep land lying beneath the Apennine, and from the quarter toward the west the south wind blows, and not the dry and heavy south wind but the most fertile of all, such as the great sea stretching toward Gades in the Atlantic prepares this to be, mingling with its cold exhalations the vaporous and pestilential heat of the meridian south wind. And what is most of all the cause of the temperateness for the land: it is washed above by the Ionian sea and below by the Tyrrhenian. Wherefore it is natural for the flocks to give birth twice a year, and cheese is not lacking either in summer or in autumn. Such things one might say about Italy.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":67,"ref":"p67","source":"Διάφορος δὲ καὶ οὐ μονοειδὴς ἡ τῶν κεραυνῶν φύσις. τοὺς μὲν γὰρ ψολόεντας ἡ παλαιότης καλεῖ, τοὺς δὲ ἀργῆτας, σκηπτούς τε καὶ πρηστῆρας. οὐδὲ γὰρ πάντες ταὐτὸ πράττουσιν. εἰσὶ δὲ οἳ καὶ ἀναστρέφουσι πρὸς τὰς ῥήξεις τῶν νεφῶν, ὅθεν καὶ ἐξεθλίβησαν. καὶ οἱ μὲν διάπυροι πρηστῆρες, οἱ δὲ μὴ πυρώδεις τυφῶνες, οἱ δ' ἔτι μᾶλλον ἀνειμένοι ἐκνεφίαι. αἰγίδες γε μὴν λέγονται οἱ ἐν συστροφῇ ἀέρος φερόμενοι. ταύτῃ αἰγίδα Διὶ περιτίθησιν ὁ λόγος, οἱονεὶ τὸν ἀέρα καταιγίδος καὶ συσσεισμοῦ αἴτιον παραινιττόμενος. εἰσὶ δὲ καὶ ἕτερα σχήματα κεραυνῶν· ἑλικίας αὐτοὺς τὰ βιβλία καλεῖ, ὅτι ἑλικοειδῆ γραμμὴν ἐν τῷ καταφέρεσθαι παραδεικνῦσιν.\n\nἜστι δὲ θαυμάσαι κἀν τούτῳ τὴν φύσιν καὶ τὸ ἄβατον τῶν ἐν αὐτῇ θεωρημάτων. οὐδὲ γὰρ πάντες καίτοι πάντες ἐξ ἀέρος καὶ συστροφῆς νεφῶν φερόμενοι τὰ αὐτὰ ἀλλήλοις δρῶσιν. ὁ γὰρ ἐν αὐτοῖς λεγόμενος ἀργής, ὃν καὶ λαμπρὸν ἐξαιρέτως καλοῦσιν οἱ ἀρχαῖοι, πολλάκις ἐμπεσὼν ἐπὶ πίθον ἢ ἄγγος ἁπλῶς ἢ οἴνου ἢ ὕδατος, τὸ μὲν περιέχον ἀπήμαντον τὸ δὲ ἐμπεριεχόμενον ἄφαντον ἐποίησεν. οὐχ ἥκιστα δὲ καὶ ἐν σκεύεσι χρυσίον ἢ ἀργύριον φέρουσιν ἐμπεσὼν τῷ ἴσῳ τρόπῳ τὰ μὲν ἔνδον ἔτηξε, τὰ δὲ ἔξωθεν ἔσωσε. καὶ τὸ δὴ πάντων θαυμασιώτατον ἐπὶ γυναικὸς ἐγκύμονος συμβῆναί φησιν ὁ μέγας Ἀπουλήιος, καὶ γυναικὸς οὐκ ἠγνοημένης, Μαρκίας δὴ ἐκείνης τῆς Κάτωνι τῷ τελευταίῳ συνοικησάσης.","english":"The nature of thunderbolts is varied and not of one kind. For antiquity calls some of them smoky, others bright, and still others thunderbolts and fire-blasts. For not all of them do the same thing. There are some that even turn back toward the ruptures of the clouds, whence they were also squeezed out. And some are fiery fire-blasts, others are not fiery but typhoons, and others still more relaxed are cloud-born. Indeed, those carried in a swirling of air are called aegides. In this way the account places an aegis around Zeus, hinting as it were that he is the cause of the air's storm-blast and convulsion. There are also other shapes of thunderbolts; the books call them heliciai, because they display a spiral line as they descend.\n\nOne may marvel at nature in this too, and at the inaccessibility of the speculations within it. For not all of them, although all are carried from air and a swirling of clouds, do the same things to one another. For the one among them called bright, which the ancients also call especially luminous, often falling upon a jar or a vessel simply of wine or water, made the container unharmed but the contents invisible. Not least, also, falling in the same way upon vessels bearing gold or silver, it melted what was inside but preserved what was outside. And the most wonderful of all, the great Apuleius says happened to a pregnant woman, and a woman not unknown, that Marcia who lived with Cato the last.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":68,"ref":"p68","source":"ἐμπεσὼν γὰρ αὐτῇ κεραυνὸς ὁ λεγόμενος ἀργὴς ἤτοι λαμπρὸς αὐτὴν μὲν παντελῶς ἐφύλαξεν ἀβλαβῆ, τὸ δὲ ἐν αὐτῇ διεφόρησεν οὕτως ἀνεπαισθήτως, ὡς μηδὲ αὐτὴν συνιδεῖν ὅ τι γέγονε τὸ ἐν αὐτῇ, καίτοι πρὸς ἔξοδον ἔχον. τοιαύτην μὲν κατ' ἐξαίρετον ἐνέργειαν ἡ τοῦ ἀργῆτος εἴληχε φύσις. Γενικῶς δ' εἰπεῖν, ἀβλαβῶς φυλάττεται ἀπὸ κεραυνῶν καὶ οὐδὲ βάλλεται τὴν ἀρχὴν ἐν μὲν φυτοῖς δάφνη καὶ συκῆ· καὶ γὰρ ἡλίου ταῦτα. ὅθεν καὶ δάφνην φιλεῖν Ἀπόλλων μυθεύεται, οἷον ὁ ἥλιος· καὶ εἰς λέοντα μεταβαλλόμενος, ἀντὶ τοῦ εἰς πῦρ, οὐ φθείρει τὴν δάφνην. ἐν δὲ πτηνοῖς ἀετός, ἐν δὲ ὑγροῖς φώκη· ὅθεν καὶ κεραυνοφόρος ὁ ἀετὸς καὶ Διὸς εἶναι νενόμισται. ἡ δὲ φώκη ὡς ἀπήμαντος ἐπιβολῇ κεραυνοῦ, μάρτυς ἡ πεῖρα ἀποδέδωκε· τῶν γὰρ νεῶν τὰ ἱστία, ἐν αἷς οἱ βασιλεῖς πλέουσι, φωκείοις εἴθισται ἀποδιφθεροῦσθαι δέρμασιν. οὐ πλέον δὲ πέντε ποδῶν κατακρύπτεσθαι κεραυνὸς πέφυκεν εἰς γῆν, ἐξωθούμενος ἄνωθεν· ὁ γὰρ ἀριθμὸς γηϊνώτατος. Ἔστι δ' ὅτε καὶ ὑπ' αἰθρίῳ τῷ ἀέρι πίπτουσι κεραυνοί· ὅπερ εἰ συμβαίη, οὐκέτι τὸν ἐπὶ τοῖς ζῳδίοις ἥλιον ἢ ἑτέραν γοῦν τῶν ἐγνωσμένων δέοι ἑρμηνείαν τοῦ ἐσομένου θηρᾶσθαι, ἀλλ' αὐτόθεν ἀποφήνασθαι ἀνατροπὴν μὲν τοῖς κοινοῖς, ἀπώλειαν δὲ τῷ παντελεῖ χωρίῳ, ἐν ᾧ τοιοῦτό τι συμβήσεται. Ἄλλην δὲ ἐκ τοῦ ἐναντίου ὁ Νιγίδιος ἐν τῇ τῶν Ὀνείρων ἐπισκέψει παραδίδωσιν ἐπὶ τοῖς κεραυνοῖς ἑρμηνείαν. φησὶ γὰρ πᾶσι μὲν καθόλου ἀπευκταίαν εἶναι τὴν τῶν σκηπτῶν φοράν, κἂν εἰ μὴ τυχὸν βλάπτοιεν, τοῖς δ' ὄναρ","english":"For a thunderbolt, the one called \"bright\" or \"shining,\" falling upon it, kept it completely unharmed, but it dispersed what was inside it so imperceptibly that it could not even perceive what had happened to what was within it, although it was ready to come forth. Such is the exceptional effect that the nature of the bright thunderbolt possesses. To speak generally, the laurel and the fig are kept unharmed by thunderbolts and are not struck at all among plants; for these belong to the sun. Hence Apollo is mythically said to love the laurel, as being the sun; and when he changes into a lion, that is, into fire, he does not destroy the laurel. Among birds, the eagle; among sea creatures, the seal. Hence the eagle is considered thunderbolt-bearing and to belong to Zeus. That the seal is unharmed by the impact of a thunderbolt, experience has given as witness; for the sails of the ships in which kings sail are customarily covered with seal skins. A thunderbolt is by nature buried no more than five feet into the earth, being driven down from above; for this number is the most earthy. Sometimes thunderbolts fall even under a clear sky; and if this should happen, one need no longer hunt for an interpretation of what is to come from the sun among the zodiac signs or any other of the known means, but to declare forthwith the overthrow of public affairs and the destruction of the entire region in which such a thing shall occur. Nigidius, in his examination of dreams, hands down another interpretation of thunderbolts, from the opposite direction. For he says that the occurrence of thunderbolts is universally to be deprecated by all, even if they should not happen to harm, but for those in dreams","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":69,"ref":"p69","source":"τουτὶ πάσχειν φανταζομένοις αἰσιώτατον καὶ λαμπρᾶς τύχης προμάντευμα. Ἄξιον δὲ ζητῆσαι τίνος χάριν ἐπὶ μὲν τῶν ἄλλων διοσημειῶν τὴν σελήνην, ἐπὶ δὲ μόνων τῶν κεραυνῶν τὸν ἥλιον ἡ ἀρχαιότης ἐπετήρησεν. εἴρηται τοίνυν πολλαχοῦ, ὡς πάσης τῆς ὁποιδήποτε τυγχανούσης θερμῆς φύσεως καὶ πυρὸς ταμίας καὶ αἴτιος ἥλιός ἐστι, καὶ διαφερόντως ἐκείνου τοῦ πυρὸς λέγω, τοῦ κατ' ἐνέργειαν δραστικοῦ, καὶ ἐν ᾇ οὐδεμίαν ἡ σελήνη μετουσίαν ἔχειν φαίνεται. τί γὰρ κεραυνοῦ δραστικώτερον ἢ πυρωδέστερον; ἐν ᾧ τοσαύτη τίς ἐστιν ἡ κατὰ φύσιν ὀξύτης, ὡς μηδὲ ἓν σῶμα παντελῶς ὑπομένειν αὐτόν· ὥστε ἐπειδὴ μὴ μόνον ἐστὶν ὑγρότητος ἔξω, ἀλλὰ καὶ πάσης τῆς ὁπωσδήποτε ὑποπιπτούσης αὐτῷ φύσεως σκεδαστής, δῆλον ὅτι ἡ σελήνη ἀλλοτρία κεραυνῶν ἐστί. καὶ γὰρ ὑγρὰ τὴν φύσιν καὶ ἐπὶ τῆς ὑγρᾶς τεταγμένη ζώνης, εἰκότως τε οὐ δυναμένη τὰ διὰ τῶν κεραυνῶν προλεγόμενα δηλῶσαι, ὥστε ἥλιος αἴτιος κεραυνῶν. ταύτῃ Ζεὺς ὁ αὐτὸς καὶ Ἥλιος τοῖς μυθικοῖς λέγεται, καὶ κεραυνὸν ἐπιφέρεται, καὶ ἀετὸς ὑπηρέτης αὐτῷ καὶ ὅσα κατὰ φύσιν θερμά, καὶ ἡλίῳ προσφυῆ. ὀρθῶς οὖν τὸν ἥλιον οἱ ἀρχαῖοι, καὶ οὐ τὴν σελήνην, ἐπὶ τῆς τῶν κεραυνῶν θεωρίας ἐπετήρησαν. ἐκείνοις τοίνυν ἀκολουθοῦντες τὰ εἰρημένα αὐτοῖς καθ' ἑρμηνείαν ἐροῦμεν. Ἥλιος ἐν κριῷ. κεραυνὸς ἐνσκήπτων ἐπὶ γῆς εἰ μὲν δένδρῳ ἐμπέσοι, τηρεῖν δεῖ ποίῳ τούτῳ· οὐδὲ γὰρ πλανᾶσθαι πέφυκε καταφερόμενος, ἀλλὰ ῥοιζηδὸν καὶ κατ' εὐθεῖαν καὶ οὕτως ἀπλανῶς καταφέρεται.","english":"To those who imagine this experience, it is most auspicious and a foretoken of brilliant fortune. It is worth inquiring for what reason antiquity observed the moon in the case of the other celestial signs, but the sun in the case of thunderbolts alone. It has therefore been said in many places that the sun is the steward and cause of every nature that happens to be hot in any way whatsoever, and of fire, and especially—I mean—of that fire which is active and efficacious, and in which the moon plainly has no share. For what is more efficacious or more fiery than a thunderbolt? In it there is such natural swiftness that not one body wholly withstands it; so that since it is not only free of moisture but also scatters every nature that in any way falls under it, it is clear that the moon is alien to thunderbolts. For it is moist by nature and is stationed in the moist zone, and reasonably cannot reveal what is foretold through thunderbolts, so that the sun is the cause of thunderbolts. For this reason Zeus is called the same as the Sun by the myth-makers, and he bears a thunderbolt, and the eagle is his servant, and all things that are hot by nature and akin to the sun. Correctly, then, the ancients observed the sun, and not the moon, in the contemplation of thunderbolts. Following them, therefore, we shall state what was said by them in interpretation. Sun in Aries. A thunderbolt falling upon the earth—if it should fall upon a tree, one must observe which tree this is; for it does not naturally wander as it descends, but with a rushing sound and in a straight line and thus unerringly it descends.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":70,"ref":"p70","source":"καὶ εἰ μὲν ἀμπέλου καθάψεται, ἐλάττωσις ἔσται τοῦ οἴνου, εἰ δὲ ἑτέρου τινὸς τῶν δένδρων, τὴν ἐξ ἐκείνου καρπῶν ἔνδειαν παραδηλοῖ. εἰ δὲ ἐπὶ ποταμὸν κατενεχθείη, ἐνδεὴς μὲν ὁ ποταμὸς ὑδάτων ἔσται, ὅσον πρὸς αὐτόν, ὄλεθρος δὲ τοῖς ἐν αὐτῷ νηχομένοις ἐπιγενήσεται. εἰ δὲ ἐπὶ θαλάσσῃ, τὸν τόπον ἐπιτηρεῖν δεῖ, καθ' οὗ φέρεται ἡ φλόξ· πάντως γὰρ ἐκεῖνος ὁ τόπος, καὶ οὐκ αὐτὸς μόνος ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸ περὶ αὐτὸν κλίμα ἢ πολέμῳ ἢ πειρατῶν δόλοις ταραχθήσεται. εἰ δὲ ἐν πολιτικῷ ἢ δημοσίῳ κατενεχθείη τόπῳ, ἐμφυλίους τε πολέμους καὶ στάσεις καὶ τοῦ πολιτεύματος ἀνατροπὴν δηλοῖ· αὐτὸν δὲ τὸν τόπον, καθ' οὗ ἐξαιρέτως φέρεται, οὐκ ἀλλοιώσει μόνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὴν ἐν αὐτῷ τύχην παντελῶς ἀναβάλῃ. εἰ δὲ ἐπὶ τείχους πέσῃ, βλάψῃ δὲ μηδέν, πολεμίων ἔφοδον σημαένει εἰ δὲ διαφθείρῃ τοῦ τείχους μέρος τι, σκοπητέον, κατὰ ποίου τινὸς μέρους καὶ πρὸς ποῖον ἀφορῶντος κέντρον τὸ τῆς διοσημασίας γένοιτο· ἐξ ἐκείνου γὰρ πάντως τοῦ κλίματος πολεμίους ἀναμένειν δεῖ κατὰ τοῦ τείχους. εἰ δὲ καθ' ἱεροῦ πέσῃ κεραυνός, τοῖς ἐνδόξοις τοῦ πολιτεύματος καὶ τοῖς περὶ τὴν βασιλείαν αὐλὴν ὁ κίνδυνος ἐνσκήψει. εἰ δὲ κατ' ἀγαλμάτων κατενεχθῇ, ποικίλας καὶ ἐπαλλήλους τὰς συμφορὰς τοῖς πράγμασιν ἀπειλεῖ· εἰ γὰρ χαρακτῆρες ἰδεῶν τινῶν καὶ κόσμια πόλεων τὰ ἀγάλματα ὑπωπτεύθη τοῖς παλαιοῖς, ἀρὰ τοῖς πράγμασιν ἡ περὶ αὐτὰ ὕβρις. Ἥλιος ἐν ταύρῳ. ἐὰν κεραυνὸς κατενεχθῇ ἐπὶ καρποφόρον δένδρον, εὐκαρπίαν τοῖς κατ' αὐτὸ καρποῖς σημαίνει· τῷ δὲ γένει τῶν βοῶν ἐπιβλαβὲς τὸ σημεῖον τοῦτο.","english":"And if it touches a vine, there will be a diminution of wine; but if it touches any other of the trees, it indicates a scarcity of fruit from that tree. And if it be borne down upon a river, the river will be lacking in waters, as far as it is concerned, and destruction will come upon those who swim in it. And if it be upon the sea, one must observe the place toward which the flame is carried; for that place assuredly, and not it alone but also the region around it, will be thrown into confusion either by war or by the treacheries of pirates. And if it be borne down upon a civic or public place, it signifies civil wars and seditions and the overthrow of the constitution; and it will not only alter that very place toward which it is borne in particular, but will utterly postpone its fortune. And if it fall upon a wall and harm nothing, it signifies the approach of enemies; but if it destroy some part of the wall, one must consider toward what sort of part and toward what center it was looking when the portent occurred; for from that region one must assuredly expect enemies against the wall. And if a thunderbolt fall upon a temple, the danger will descend upon the illustrious men of the constitution and upon those about the royal court. And if it be borne down upon statues, it threatens manifold and successive calamities for affairs; for if the statues were suspected by the ancients to be impressions of certain ideas and ornaments of cities, the outrage against them is a curse upon affairs. Sun in Taurus. If a thunderbolt be borne down upon a fruit-bearing tree, it signifies good fruitfulness for the fruits upon it; but this sign is harmful to the race of oxen.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":71,"ref":"p71","source":"εἰ δὲ ἐπὶ ποταμὸν κατενεχθείη ὁ κεραυνός, λοιμώξει τὸ ὕδωρ καὶ τρόμος ἐπιγενήσεται τοῖς σώμασι τῶν ἀνθρώπων, ἀνατροπὴ δὲ τῶν ποταμίων ἰχθύων γενήσεται. εἰ δὲ εἰς θάλασσαν κατὰ τόδε καιροῦ κατενεχθείη ὁ κεραυνός, ἀγαθὰ σημαίνει τοῖς πλησιοχώροις· οἱ γὰρ πειρατεύοντες χείρω πράξουσιν. εἰ δὲ ἐπὶ τείχους κατενεχθείη, οὐ καλὸν τοῖς βοσκήμασιν· ἢ γὰρ διαφθαρήσονται ἢ ὑπὸ πολεμίων διαρπαγήσονται. εἰ δὲ καὶ μέρος τοῦ τείχους τῇ βολῇ τοῦ κεραυνοῦ καταφθαρείη, ταῖς νομαῖς τῶν χωρίων ἔσται λοιμὸς καὶ ἔφοδος πολεμίων οὐκ εὐχερὴς εἰς ἄμυναν, καὶ ἄλλαι δέ τινες βλάβαι κάρτα σφαλεραὶ προσγενήσονται. εἰ δὲ κατὰ τὸν\n\nκαιρὸν τοῦτον ἐπὶ ἱερὸν ὁ κεραυνὸς κατενεχθείη, χωρίων δημοσίας ζημίας ἀπειλεῖ· δεῖ δὲ ὅμως τοὺς ἐφόρους τῶν τοιούτων ἱερῶν θεραπεύειν εἰς τὸ ἀποστρέψαι τὰ ἀπειλούμενα. εἰ δὲ κατ' ἰδιωτικῆς ἢ βασιλικῆς οἰκίας κατενεχθείη κεραυνός, συμφορὰς ἀναισίους παραδηλοῖ τοῖς κεκτημένοις.\n\n49 Ἥλιος ἐν διδύμοις. κατὰ τὴν ἐπιτολὴν ταύτην εἰ κεραυνὸς ἐπὶ δένδρου καρπίμου κατενεχθείη, βλάψει τοὺς γεωργικοὺς καὶ τὰ καρποφόρα δένδρα, οὐχ ἥκιστα δὲ ποταμοὺς καὶ πηγάς· λοιμώξει δὲ τὸ ὕδωρ ὡς πᾶσαν καταφθεῖραι ἡλικίαν. εἰ δὲ ἐπὶ θαλάσσης, πολεμίων ἔφοδον ἀπειλεῖ· τὸ δὲ πολὺ μέρος ἢ νόσῳ φθαρήσεται ἢ πολεμίοις παραδοθήσεται, ὡς σφόδρα μετρίους ἀπολειφθῆναι. εἰ δὲ νότου πνέοντος κατὰ δημοσίου χωρίου κατενεχθείη κεραυνός, παντελῆ φθορὰν ἀνθρώποις ἀπειλεῖ· δύο δέ τινες κατὰ τῆς βασιλείας ἐπαναστήσονται, ὡς μερισθῆναι τὴν βουλὴν καθ' ἑαυτήν·","english":"But if the thunderbolt is borne down upon a river, the water will be pestilential, and trembling will come upon the bodies of men, and there will be a destruction of the river fish. And if at this time the thunderbolt is borne down into the sea, it signifies good things for those who dwell nearby; for those who practice piracy will fare worse. And if it is borne down upon a wall, it is not good for the grazing animals; for either they will be destroyed or they will be plundered by enemies. And if even a part of the wall is destroyed by the stroke of the thunderbolt, there will be pestilence for the pastures of the regions, and an incursion of enemies not easy to repel, and certain other very perilous harms will also befall. And if at this season the thunderbolt is borne down upon a temple, it threatens public losses for the regions; nevertheless the overseers of such temples must perform rites to avert the threats. And if a thunderbolt is borne down upon a private or a royal house, it indicates irremediable calamities for the owners.\n\nSun in Gemini. At this rising, if a thunderbolt is borne down upon a fruitful tree, it will harm the farmers and the fruit-bearing trees, and not least the rivers and springs; and the water will be pestilential, so as to corrupt every age. And if upon the sea, it threatens an incursion of enemies; and the greater part will either be destroyed by disease or handed over to enemies, so that very few are left. And if, when the south wind blows, a thunderbolt is borne down upon a public place, it threatens utter destruction for men; and two men will rise up against the kingdom, so that the council will be divided against itself.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":72,"ref":"p72","source":"μικρὸν δὲ ὕστερον ἑκάτερος αὐτῶν ἀποφθαρήσεται, πολλοὶ δὲ χάριν ἐκείνων κινδυνεύσουσιν. εἰ δὲ ἐπὶ τείχους κατὰ τόδε καιροῦ σκηπτὸς ἐκπέσῃ, τὰ αὐτὰ σημαίνει· πόλεμοι γὰρ ἔσονται, ἀλλ' οὐκ εὐτυχεῖς τοῖς πολεμίοις. ἐπισημήνασθαι δὲ χρεὼν ἐκ ποίου κλίματος τοῦ ἀέρος ἐκπίπτοι ἡ φλόξ· ἐπ' ἐκείνου γὰρ φυλακῆς καὶ ἀσφαλείας δέον· καὶ γὰρ ἐξ αὐτοῦ πολεμίων ἔφοδος ἔσται. Ἥλιος ἐν καρκίνῳ. εἰ κατὰ τὴν ἐπιτολὴν τοῦ καρκίνου κεραυνὸς ἐπὶ ὕλην κατενεχθείη, μετριώτερον ἔσται τὸ καυσῶδες τοῦ καιροῦ, λειψυδρία δὲ ἔσται. εἰ δὲ ἐπὶ θαλάσσης κατενεχθείη, στόλοις πολεμίων καὶ ναυμαχίαις ταραχθήσεται τὸ κλίμα, ἀλλ' οὐκ ἐπι μενεῖ χρόνῳ, ἔσται δὲ κρείττονα τὰ πράγματα, καὶ οἱ πολέμιοι ἡττηθήσονται, καὶ ὁ στόλος αὐτῶν καταβυθισθήσεται. εἰ δὲ κατὰ δημοσίου τόπου κατενεχθείη τὸ πῦρ, θηρία ἑρπετὰ τοῖς κτήνεσιν ἐνοχλήσουσι, καὶ οὐχ ἥκιστα ἀνθρώποις· βιαιοτέρα δὲ ἔσται ἡ ἐξ αὐτῶν βλάβη τῷ τοῦ ἀέρος βαρεῖ καταστήματι θερμαινομένη. εἰ δὲ ἐπὶ τείχους κατενεχθείη, ἐμπρησμοὺς σημαίνει· καὶ πόλεμος δὲ κινηθήσεται οὐκ εὐτυχὴς τοῖς πράγμασιν. εἰ δὲ παντελῶς καταφθαρείη τῷ σκηπτῷ τὸ τεῖχος, ἐμπρησμοὺς κατὰ τῶν ἀναγκαίων τῆς πόλεως μερῶν προσδοκητέον, δόλοις δὲ οὗτοι καὶ ἐπιβουλαῖς γενήσονται, ἕψεται δὲ καὶ πόλεμος οὐ μικρός, καὶ βλάβη γενήσεται τοῖς τόποις.","english":"A little later each of them will be destroyed, and many will be in danger on their account. But if at this time a thunderbolt falls upon a wall, it signifies the same things; for there will be wars, but not prosperous for the enemies. It is necessary to mark from what quarter of the air the flame falls; for in that quarter there must be guard and security; for from it will come the attack of enemies. Sun in Cancer. If at the rising of Cancer a thunderbolt is borne down upon a wood, the heat of the season will be more moderate, but there will be a scarcity of water. But if it is borne down upon the sea, the region will be disturbed by enemy fleets and naval battles, but it will not endure for a long time, and affairs will be better, and the enemies will be defeated, and their fleet will be sunk. But if the fire is borne down upon a public place, creeping beasts will trouble the cattle, and not least men; and the harm from them will be more violent, being heated by the heavy condition of the air. But if it is borne down upon a wall, it signifies conflagrations; and a war will be stirred up, not prosperous for affairs. But if the wall is utterly destroyed by the thunderbolt, conflagrations are to be expected against the essential parts of the city, and these will come about by treacheries and plots, and no small war will follow, and harm will come to the places.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":73,"ref":"p73","source":"50 Ἥλιος ἐν λέοντι. κατὰ τοῦτον τὸν καιρὸν εἰ κατενεχθείη κεραυνὸς καθ' οἵου δήποτε τόπου ἢ μέρους ἢ ποταμοῦ ἢ θαλάσσης, ὄλεθρον τοῖς βασιλεῦσι καὶ τοῖς ἐν δυναστείαις σημαίνει· καὶ οὐκ ἔστι τις διαφορὰ περὶ τούτου. εἰκότως τε κοιναὶ συμφοραὶ τοῖς δημοσίοις βλαστήσουσι· συγκινδυνεύσειν γὰρ εἰκὸς αὐτοὺς τοῖς βασιλεῦσι. καὶ οὐκ ἔσται ὁ νικῶν ἐν τοῖς μαχομένοις, ἀλλὰ καθολικὴ φθορὰ αὐτῶν τε τῶν ἐν δυνάμει καὶ οὐχ ἥκιστα τῶν ὑπὲρ αὐτῶν ἐνισταμένων ταῖς μάχαις. καὶ τὸ δὴ πάντων σχετλιώτερον, καταφθαρήσονται καὶ αἱ περιουσίαι τῶν πολλῶν, καὶ αἱ πόλεις πυρίφλεκτοι ἔσονται. Ἥλιος ἐν παρθένῳ. ἡλίου δὲ ἐπὶ τὴν παρθένον ἰόντος εἰ κατενεχθείη κεραυνός, φθορὰν γυναικῶν ἀπειλεῖ σωφρόνων, πτῶσιν δὲ καὶ αὐτῇ τῇ βασιλίδι καὶ τοῖς αὐτῆς τέκνοις. ἐλάττωσις δὲ ἔσται τῶν δήμων, ἀποτεύξεται δὲ καὶ ἡ ἄμπελος· ταῖς δὲ παρθένοις καὶ γυναιξὶ γενήσονται συμφοραὶ ὡς καὶ ὑπὸ πολεμίων ἁλῶναι. Ἥλιος ἐν ζυγῷ. ἐὰν δὲ ἐν ζυγῷ ὁ ἥλιος γένηται, εἰ συμβῇ κεραυνὸν καταβληθῆναι, πᾶσα ἀδικία καὶ ἀπληστία καὶ φιλαρχία κατακρατήσει τῶν πραγμάτων, ὡς καὶ περὶ τὰ θεῖα αὐτὰ τὰ τῆς ὕβρεως ἀνενεχθῆναι. ἀπορριφήσονται δὲ ὑπὸ τῶν βασιλέων οἱ χρηστοὶ τοῦ πολιτεύματος. τὰ δὲ μέτρῳ ἢ σταθμῷ ἀποδιδόμενα οὐχ ἕξει τὸ δίκαιον. πάντων δὲ βαρυτέρα ἔσται ἡ περὶ τὰ δημόσια τελέσματα σπουδή, οἵ τε νόμοι καταφρονηθήσονται, καὶ οἱ δῆμοι ἐξ ἀλογίας ταραχθήσονται, καὶ ἐκ παντὸς τρόπου καὶ ἡ τοῦ θεοῦ δειχθήσεται ὀργή. Ἥλιος ἐν σκορπίῳ. ὅταν δὲ ἐν σκορπίῳ γένηται, εἰ κατὰ","english":"Sun in Leo. At this time, if a thunderbolt falls upon any place or region or river or sea whatsoever, it signifies destruction for kings and for those in positions of power; and there is no difference in this matter. And reasonably, common calamities will spring up for the public; for it is likely that they will share the danger with the kings. And there will be no victor among those who fight, but a universal destruction of those in power and not least of those who stand up for them in battles. And what is most wretched of all, the wealth of the many will also be destroyed, and the cities will be consumed by fire. Sun in Virgo. But as the sun proceeds into Virgo, if a thunderbolt falls, it threatens destruction of chaste women, and a fall for the queen herself and her children. And there will be a diminution of the peoples, and the vine will also fail; and calamities will come upon virgins and women, such that they will even be captured by enemies. Sun in Libra. But if the sun comes to be in Libra, and a thunderbolt happens to be cast down, all injustice and greed and lust for power will prevail over affairs, so that even in divine matters the deeds of outrage will be carried up. And the good men will be cast out of the commonwealth by the kings. And things sold by measure or weight will not have justice. And heavier than all will be the zeal concerning public expenditures, and the laws will be despised, and the peoples will be thrown into confusion by unreason, and in every way the wrath of God will also be shown. Sun in Scorpio. But whenever it comes to be in Scorpio, if at","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":74,"ref":"p74","source":"δένδρου κατενεχθείη κεραυνός, πλοῦτον μὲν τοῖς κυρίοις τοῦ δένδρου ἐπαγγέλλεται, τὸ δὲ γεωργικὸν ἐλαττωθήσεται. ἐπικίνδυνος δὲ καὶ ὁ πλοῦς ἔσται, καὶ συχνοὶ ἐπὶ τῆς θαλάσσης ἐκπεσοῦνται κεραυνοί, ναυάγιά τε πολλὰ συμβήσεται. εἰ δὲ κατὰ δημοσίου τόπου ἐνσκήψει κεραυνός, νεανίας ἀναιδὴς τῆς βασιλείας ἐπιλάβηται, ἀσώτων καὶ διεφθορότων συντρεχόντων αὐτῷ. εἰ δὲ κατὰ τειχῶν κατενεχθείη κεραυνός, πολέμους ἐκ τῶν πλησιοχώρων καὶ φθορὰν τῇ νεολαίᾳ δεδιέναι χρῆ. οἱ δὲ πολέμιοι μυρίοις εἰσπεσοῦνται κακοῖς, ὡς εὐκταῖον αὐτοῖς νομισθῆναι τὸν θάνατον. Ἥλιος ἐν τοξότῃ. ὅταν δὲ ἥλιος ἐπὶ τοξότην γένηται, εἰ κατενεχθείη κεραυνὸς ἐπὶ ὕλην, ἐμπρησμοὺς ταῖς ναυσὶν ἀπειλεῖ. εἰ δὲ ἐπὶ ποταμοῦ κατενεχθείη, πολέμους καὶ ναυμαχίας σημαίνει, ὡς ἐρήμους πολλοὺς ἐκ τῆς τοιαύτης ἐφόδου γενέσθαι. κίνησιν δὲ οὐχ ἥκιστα ἀπειλεῖ Περσῶν, καὶ ἔνδειαν ταῖς πολιοκρουμέναις ὑπὸ πολεμίων πόλεσιν. εἰ δὲ πρὸς ταῖς ἡλίου δυσμαῖς σκηπτὸς κατενεχθείη, ἐμφυλίους σημαίνει μάχας· ἀλλ' οὐκ εἰς χρόνον ἐκταθήσεται τὰ τῆς διχονοίας, κρείττονα δὲ ἔσται τὰ πράγματα, αὐτῶν τῶν αἰτίων τῆς στάσεως ἀπολλυμένων, ὥστε τὸ πολίτευμα εἰρήνης ἀπολαῦσαι. Ἥλιος ἐν αἰγόκερῳ. κατὰ τόδε καιροῦ κεραυνὸς καταφερόμενος, ἐφ' ὃν ἂν κατενεχθείη τόπον, γενικὴν ἱλαρίαν σημαίνει, εἰρήνην τε ταῖς πόλεσι καὶ εὐκαρπίαν τοῖς ἀγροῖς ἔπαινόν τε τοῖς βασιλεῦσι τῆς πολιτείας. Ἥλιος ἐν ὑδροχόῳ. κατὰ δὲ τὸν καιρὸν τοῦτον εἰ κεραυνὸς κατενεχθείη, ἐκδρομὰς τῶν ποταμῶν ἀπειλεῖ καὶ ἀφανισμοὺς τῶν χωρίων.","english":"If a thunderbolt falls upon a tree, it promises wealth to the owners of the tree, but the farmer's yield will be diminished. And the voyage will be dangerous, and many thunderbolts will fall upon the sea, and many shipwrecks will occur. But if a thunderbolt descends upon a public place, a shameless young man will seize the kingdom, with prodigal and corrupt men flocking to him. But if a thunderbolt falls upon walls, one must fear wars from the neighboring regions and destruction for the youth. And the enemies will fall into countless evils, so that death will be considered by them a thing to be prayed for. Sun in Sagittarius. But when the sun is in Sagittarius, if a thunderbolt falls upon a forest, it threatens conflagrations for ships. But if it falls upon a river, it signifies wars and naval battles, so that many will be left desolate from such an onslaught. And it threatens no less a movement of the Persians, and scarcity for cities besieged by enemies. But if a thunderbolt falls toward the settings of the sun, it signifies civil battles; but the effects of the discord will not be extended in time, and affairs will be better, since the very causes of the sedition will be destroyed, so that the state may enjoy peace. Sun in Capricorn. At this time a thunderbolt borne down, upon whatever place it may fall, signifies general cheerfulness, and peace for cities and good fruitfulness for fields, and praise for kings of the state. Sun in Aquarius. But at this time, if a thunderbolt falls, it threatens overflows of rivers and obliterations of the regions.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":75,"ref":"p75","source":"τὸ δὲ θέρος καυσῶδες ἔσται, καὶ ἐλάττωσις οἴνου καὶ ἐλαίου, ὡς πολλοὺς ἐκ τῆς ἐνδείας μετανάστας γενέσθαι. Ἥλιος ἐν ἰχθύσιν. ὅταν δὲ ἐν ἰχθύσιν ἥλιος γένηται, εἰ κεραυνὸς κατενεχθείη, ζάλην τῇ θαλάσσῃ ἀπειλεῖ, ναυαγία δὲ ἔσται βαρεῖα, καὶ ἀνατροπὴ μὲν τῶν ἰχθύων, ὀχληθήσεται δὲ οὐδὲν ἧττον ἡ θάλασσα ὑπὸ πειρατῶν. νέος δέ τις εὐγενὴς στρατευσάμενος ἀπολέσει τὸ πειρατικὸν καὶ ἔνδοξος ἐπὶ τῇ νίκῃ γενήσεται. Καὶ εἴρηται μὲν πρότερον ̣ ̣ ὡς οὔτε ἐν Σκυθίᾳ οὔτε ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ κεραυνοὶ καταφέρονται· εἰ δὲ τυχὸν κατενεχθείη κατὰ τόδε καιροῦ ἐπὶ τὰ εἰρημένα κλίματα κεραυνός, ἀγαθὰ τοῖς ἐκεῖ σημαίνει.\n\n5354 ΠΕΡΙ ΣΕΙΣΜΩΝ Δήλων οὐσῶν τῶν εἰρημένων τοῖς πάλαι φιλοσοφήσασιν αἰτιῶν ἐπὶ τοῖς περὶ τὴν γῆν πάθεσι, μίαν ἐκ πασῶν, τὴν περὶ τοῦ καταγείου πυρός, τέως ἀποδεχόμενοι, ἐπεὶ κἀν τοῖς τόποις, ἐν οἷς συνεχῶς σάλοι συμβαίνουσιν, οἶδα γενόμενον ἐμαυτόν, ὀλίγα ἄττα περὶ τῶν ὄψεσιν αὐταῖς ὑποπεσόντων ἡμῖν ἀφηγησόμεθα. καὶ γὰρ τὸ πῦρ, διεργαζόμενον καὶ ἐξαραιοῦν τὴν ἐν βάθει γῆν, τουτὶ παρασκευάζει συμβαίνειν. ἀμέλει τὰ πλησιάζοντα τοῖς ἀναφυσήμασι καὶ ταῖς τῶν θερμῶν ἀναβολαῖς ὑδάτων πυκνότερον σείεται, οἷα τὰ περὶ τὴν Φρυγίαν Λαοδίκειαν καὶ τὴν παρ' αὐτῇ Ἱερὰν πόλιν καὶ τὴν καθ' ἡμᾶς Φιλαδέλφειαν, καὶ καθ' ὅλου τὴν ἐπὶ τάδε Ἀσίαν, καὶ τὰ πλεῖστα δὲ τῆς πρὸς δύνοντα ἥλιον Εὐρώπης, Σικελίαν λέγω καὶ Ἰταλίαν. καὶ γὰρ ἡ τῶν σεισμῶν γένεσις πνευμάτων ἐστὶ ξηρῶν διὰ σηράγγων ἰόντων· τοῦ δὲ πλεονασμοῦ αἰτίαι πλείους.","english":"The summer will be scorching, and there will be a shortage of wine and oil, so that many will become migrants because of the scarcity. Sun in the Fishes. But whenever the sun is in the Fishes, if a thunderbolt falls, it threatens a storm for the sea, and there will be a severe shipwreck, and a overturning of the fish, and the sea will be no less troubled by pirates. But some young man of noble birth, having gone on campaign, will destroy the pirate band and will become famous for the victory. And it has been said before that neither in Scythia nor in Egypt do thunderbolts fall; but if perchance at this time a thunderbolt should fall upon the regions mentioned, it signifies good things for those there.\n\nON EARTHQUAKES. Since the causes that the ancient philosophers stated concerning the affections of the earth are clear, accepting for now one of them all—the one concerning subterranean fire—since I know that I myself have been in places where continuous shocks occur, we shall narrate a few brief things about what has fallen under our very eyes. For the fire, working through and rarefying the earth in its depths, brings this about. Indeed, the regions near the exhalations and the outbursts of hot waters are shaken more frequently, such as the parts around Laodicea in Phrygia and the Hierapolis near it and our own Philadelphia, and in general Asia on this side, and most of Europe toward the setting sun—I mean Sicily and Italy. For the generation of earthquakes is from dry winds passing through channels; and the causes of their abundance are several.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":76,"ref":"p76","source":"πρώτη μὲν καὶ μεγίστη ἡ τοῦ καταγείου πυρὸς ἐξαραίωσις, δευτέρα δὲ ἡ τῆς θαλάσσης εἰς τοὺς σηραγγώδεις τόπους ἐπιδρομή. συνεργεῖ δὲ καὶ πολυομβρία χειμῶνος, καὶ θέρους ἀνομβρία· ἡ μὲν γὰρ πιλοῦσα τὴν γῆν καὶ εἰς τὸ βάθος ἀπωθουμένη τὸ πνεῦμα ἀρχὴν αὐτῷ θλίψεως παρασκευάζει, ἡ δὲ ἐπισπωμένη καὶ σύρουσα. ̣54 ̣ τῶν δὲ σεισμῶν οἱ μέν εἰσιν ἐπικλίνται οἱ δὲ βράσται, καὶ ἐπικλίνται μὲν οἱ κυματηδὸν ἐπὶ τὰ πλάγια σείοντες, βράσται δὲ οἱ τινάσσοντες καὶ σείοντες ἄνω καὶ κάτω. εἰσὶ δ' αὐτῶν οἱ μὲν ῥῆκται, οἱ δὲ σεισταὶ μόνον, οἱ δὲ ἱζηματίαι, καὶ σεισταὶ μὲν οἱ τρόμον τινὰ τῆς γῆς ἢ καὶ\n\nσύμπτωσιν τῶν δεδονημένων ἐργαζόμενοι, ἱζηματίαι δὲ οἳ τοῖς κοιλώμασι τὴν ὑπερκειμένην ἐγκαθίζουσι γῆν, ῥῆκται δὲ οἱ τὰς καταπόσεις καὶ τὰ χάσματα διαπηδώσης τῆς γῆς ἀποσχίζοντες. ἔτι τῶν ῥηκτῶν οἱ μὲν πνεύματα ἀναβάλλουσιν, οἱ δὲ ὑγρὰ καὶ πηλόν, οἱ δὲ μυκήματα, ἐνίοτε μὲν σὺν σεισμῷ, ἐνίοτε δὲ καὶ ἄνευ τούτου πιλούμενον τὸ πνεῦμα καὶ μετεμπῖπτον βρόμον τε καὶ ψόφον ῥηγνυμένων τινῶν ὡς εἰκὸς ὑπὸ γῆν πετρῶν ποιεῖ. συμβαίνουσι δ' ὡς ἐκ πλείονος ἐν ἔαρι ἢ ἐν μετοπώρῳ, καὶ νηνεμίᾳ μᾶλλον ἢ ἀνέμων φορᾷ, περὶ πλειάδος καὶ ἀρκτούρου ἐπιτολήν. Ταῦτα μὲν ἄν τις πρὸς τὰς φυσικὰς ἐννοίας ἀφορῶν εἰκονίσειε· προνοίᾳ δὲ ὅμως καὶ ἐπισκοπῇ τῆς Δίκης πάντα γίνεται. οὐ γὰρ εἰκῇ, ἐπεὶ τόδε τὸ πᾶν νόμοις μὲν φυσικοῖς συγκροτεῖται, προνοίᾳ δὲ θεοῦ καὶ λόγῳ τύχης ἐπέκεινα διοικεῖται.","english":"The first and greatest cause is the exhaustion of subterranean fire, and the second is the irruption of the sea into cavernous places. Heavy rain in winter and drought in summer also contribute; for the one, packing down the earth and driving the wind into the depths, prepares for it the beginning of compression, while the other draws it up and drags it along. Of earthquakes, some are \"inclining\" and others \"boiling\"; inclining are those that shake in a wave-like manner from side to side, boiling are those that toss and shake up and down. Of these, some are \"splitters,\" some merely \"shakers,\" and some \"settlers\"; shakers are those that produce a certain trembling of the earth or even a collapse of the parts that have been shaken, settlers are those that settle the overlying earth down into the hollows, and splitters are those that split the earth apart as it leaps open in swallowings and chasms. Further, of the splitters, some throw up winds, others moisture and mud, others bellowings—sometimes with an earthquake, sometimes even without it, when the wind is compressed and falls through, producing a roar and a crash, as certain rocks beneath the earth are likely to be breaking. They occur more often in spring than in autumn, and more in a calm than in a rush of winds, around the rising of the Pleiades and Arcturus. One might picture these things by looking to natural conceptions; yet all things come about by the providence and oversight of Justice. For it is not at random, since this universe is held together by natural laws, but is administered by the providence of God and by reason beyond fortune.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":77,"ref":"p77","source":"ὅθεν οὐ μόνον αὐτοὶ καθ' ἑαυτοὺς οἱ σεισμοὶ βλάπτουσι τοὺς καθ' ὧν συμβαίνουσιν, ἀλλὰ μὴν καὶ ἄλλων πόρρω που τόπῳ τε καὶ χρόνῳ μεριζομένων γίνονται μηνυταὶ οὐ μετρίων κακῶν. ὅτι δὲ οὕτω καὶ οὐκ ἄλλως τὴν τυχηρὰν ὁ περὶ αὐτῶν λόγος φεύξεται σύμβασιν, ἐκ τῶν ὑποκειμένων γνῶναι δυνατόν. αὐτὸς γὰρ Βικέλλιος ὁ Ῥωμαῖος ἐκ τῶν Τάγητος στίχων περὶ οὗ καὶ Ἀπουλήιος ὕστερον πλατεῖ καὶ ἐλευθέρου ποδὸς ἀφηγήσατο λόγῳ ταῦτα ῥήμασιν αὐτοῖς καθ' ἑρμηνείαν φησίν.\n\nἭλιος ἐν κριῷ. ἐὰν γένηται σεισμὸς ἐπὶ μὲν τῆς Ἀσίας, κακὸν τῇ Συρίᾳ τῇ κοίλῃ καὶ τῇ Παλαιστίνῃ καὶ τῇ Ἰουδαίᾳ ἀπειλεῖ, ἐπὶ δὲ τῆς Εὐρώπης Βρεταννίαις, Γαλατίαις, Γερμανίαις, Βαστάρναις. οἱ δὲ βασιλεῖς στρατεύσονται κατὰ τῶν πολεμίων, ἀλλ' οὐκ εὐτυχῶς· ἐλαττωθέντων γὰρ αὐτοῖς τῶν στρατευμάτων οἱ στρατηγοὶ ἄπρακτοι ἀναζεύξουσι. πλείων δὲ ἔσται ἐπὶ τῆς ἀνατολῆς ἡ τῶν ἀνδρῶν βλάβη παρὰ τὰς γυναῖκας, ὅτι ἄρρεν ζῴδιον ὁ κριός. Ἥλιος ἐν ταύρῳ. εἰ σάλον συμβαίη γενέσθαι, ἐπὶ μὲν τῆς ἄνω Ἀσίας Πέρσαις καὶ Αἰθίοψι τοῖς παρ' Ἰνδὸν ποταμὸν τῇ τε παραλίᾳ τῆς μικρᾶς Κυκλάσι τε καὶ Κύπρῳ ταῖς νήσοις ὄλεθρος ἐπικείσεται λοιμώδης, ὥστε καὶ αὐτὰ τὰ ὑποζύγια τῶν εἰρημένων χωρίων φθαρῆναι· ἐκπύρωσίς τε αὐτοῖς βαρεῖα καὶ λοιμώδης, ἐκτροπαί τε ποταμῶν ἄσχετοι συμβήσονται, καὶ ἐπὶ τοῦ θέρους λεῖψις τῶν ποταμίων ὑδάτων. ταῖς δὲ θήλεσι τῶν ζῴων, λογικῶν τε καὶ ἀλόγων, πλείων ἡ βλάβη, ὅτι θῆλυ ζῴδιον ὁ ταῦρος. Ἥλιος ἐν διδύμοις.","english":"Hence earthquakes not only harm those in whose lands they occur by themselves alone, but they are also messengers of no small evils for others divided far off in place and time. That the account concerning them will thus and not otherwise escape a chance coincidence can be known from what follows. For Vicellius the Roman himself, from the verses of Tages—about whom Apuleius too later discoursed in ample and free-footed style—speaks these very words in translation:\n\nThe Sun in Aries. If an earthquake occurs, in Asia it threatens disaster for Coele Syria, Palestine, and Judaea; in Europe, for the Britains, the Gauls, the Germans, and the Bastarnae. Kings will march against their enemies, but not successfully; for when their armies have been reduced, the generals will withdraw without accomplishing anything. The harm to men will be greater in the East than to women, because the Ram is a male sign. The Sun in Taurus. If a tremor should occur, in Upper Asia destruction by plague will threaten the Persians and the Ethiopians by the river Indus, and the coast of the Lesser Cyclades and the islands of Cyprus, so that even the beasts of burden of the said regions will perish; a heavy and pestilential burning will come upon them, and uncontrollable diversions of rivers will occur, and in summer a failure of river waters. The harm will be greater for the females of living things, both rational and irrational, because the Bull is a female sign. The Sun in Gemini.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":78,"ref":"p78","source":"εἰ κίνημα γῆς ὁποιδήποτε συμβήσεται, ἐπὶ μὲν τῆς μεγάλης Ἀσίας Ὑρκανίαν, Ἀρμενίαν ἑκατέραν, Ἀμαδιανήν, ἐπὶ δὲ Λιβύης ἢ μᾶλλον Εὐρώπης ὅτι μέρος Εὐρώπης Λιβύη Μαρμαρικὴν καὶ Νασαμωνίτιδα καὶ ἁπλῶς τὴν παρατεταμένην ταῖς μεγάλαις Σύρτεσι ξηρὰν ἔσχατος περιστήσεται λιμός, ὥστ' ἐξ ἀνάγκης τοῖς λογάσι τῶν χωρῶν ἐπαναστήσεται τὸ πλῆθος ἐξωθῆσαι αὐτούς. ἐκ δὲ τῶν συμφορῶν οὐδεὶς οὐδενὶ ἔσται πιστός, οὐδὲ μητέρες τέκνοις. πτώσεις τε καὶ ἀφανισμοὶ οἴκων, ἐμπρησμοί τε βαρεῖς. τύραννος πρὸς τούτοις ὠμότατος ταράξει τοὺς νόμους, ὡς μηδὲ αὐτῶν τῶν ἱερῶν φείσασθαι. τὰ δὲ τῶν συμφορῶν τοῖς ἄρρεσι τῶν ζῴων, καὶ λογικῶν διαφερόντως, πλέον ἐπιπεσεῖται, ὅτι ἄρρεν καὶ ἀνθρωποειδὲς ζῷον οἱ δίδυμοι. Ἥλιος ἐν καρκίνῳ. εἰ σάλον ἐπιγενέσθαι συμβαίη καθ' ὁντιναοῦν τόπον, ἐπὶ μὲν τῆς ἄνω Ἀσίας τὰ προσεχῆ Πέρσαις ταραχθήσεται, νόσοι τε λοιμώδεις ἐμπεσοῦνται τοῖς σώμασι τῶν ἐν αὐτοῖς ἐνδόξων, ὡς ἐρήμους ἀρχόντων γενέσθαι τὰς πόλεις αὐτῶν. οἱ δὲ μετ' αὐτοὺς τῶν πραγμάτων ἀνθεξόμενοι, ψήφῳ τοῦ πλήθους καὶ αὐτῶν τῶν ἀρίστων ἀφελκύσουσι τὰ τέκνα τῶν γονέων, καὶ ἀποδῶνται μακράν. ἐπὶ δὲ τῆς κάτω Ἀσίας Βιθυνία Φρυγία τε πᾶσα, καὶ Εὐρώπης μὲν ἡ Κολχική, ἣν νῦν προσαγορεύουσι Λαζικήν, Λιβύης δὲ ἡ μέχρι Νουμιδίας Ἀφρικὴ τοῖς αὐτοῖς ὁμιλήσει κακοῖς. ἐκλείψεις τε","english":"If any movement of the earth occurs in whatever way, then in Great Asia, Hyrcania and both Armenias and Amadia; but in Libya, or rather in Europe—since Libya is a part of Europe—Marmarica and Nasamonitis and, simply put, the dry land stretching along the Great Syrtes, will be visited last by famine, so that of necessity the multitude will rise up against the leading men of the regions to drive them out. And because of the calamities no one will be trusted by anyone, nor mothers by their children. There will be falls and destructions of houses, and grievous conflagrations. In addition to these, a most savage tyrant will confound the laws, so as not even to spare the sacred things themselves. But the calamities will fall more upon the males of living things, and especially of rational beings, because the Twins are a male and man-shaped creature. The Sun is in Cancer. If a shaking should happen to occur in any place whatsoever, then in Upper Asia the regions adjacent to the Persians will be thrown into disorder, and pestilential diseases will fall upon the bodies of the distinguished men among them, so that their cities will be left bereft of rulers. And those who after them will take hold of affairs, by the vote of the multitude and of the best men themselves, will drag the children away from their parents and sell them far off. And in Lower Asia, Bithynia and all Phrygia, and in Europe the Colchian land, which they now call Lazica, and in Libya the Africa as far as Numidia, will share in the same evils. And eclipses","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":79,"ref":"p79","source":"σεληνιακαὶ ἔσονται, ὅτι σελήνης οἶκος ὁ καρκίνος. πλείων δὲ ὕβρις γυναιξὶ γενήσεται, καὶ διαφερόντως ταῖς ἑταιριζομέναις, ὅτι θῆλυ ζῴδιον ὁ καρκίνος καὶ Ἀφροδίτης, ὅτι ταὐτὸν Ἀφροδίτη σελήνῃ. Ἥλιος ἐν λέοντι. ἐὰν σάλος γένηται, οὐκ ἀγαθὸν ἐπὶ μὲν τῆς Ἀσίας Φοινίκῃ πάσῃ καὶ Ὀρχηνίᾳ, ἐπὶ δὲ τῆς Εὐρώπης Ἰταλοῖς τε καὶ Σικελοῖς καὶ Γάλλοις, ἔτι γε μὴν καὶ Λιβύῃ πάσῃ οὐκ ἀγαθόν· τὰ γὰρ βοσκήματα λιμῷ φθαρήσεται, ἐπομβρία δὲ ἔσται καὶ ἀκρίδων νέφη. ὁ δὲ λεγόμενος βροῦχος τοῖς καρποῖς λυμανεῖται, φθοραὶ δὲ ἔσονται ἀνδρῶν, ὡς πάντα ἐγγὺς μονωθῆναι τὰ συνοικέσια. οἱ δὲ λέοντες ἐν οἷς γίνονται χωρίοις φονικωτέρως κατ' ἀνδρῶν ὁρμήσουσι· τοῖς δὲ ἐν οἷς οὐ πεφύκασι φαίνεσθαι, πυρετὸς ὀξὺς ἐπιπεσεῖται. οἱ δὲ ἄρρενες πλεῖον αἰσθήσονται βλάβης, καὶ μάλιστα οἱ πρὸς ἀνίσχοντα ἥλιον, ὅτι ἄρρεν καὶ ἡλιακὸν ζῴδιον ὁ λέων. Ἥλιος ἐν παρθένῳ. ἡλίου ἐπὶ τὴν παρθένον ἰόντος εἰ σάλος γένηται, Ἑλλάς, Ἀχαΐα, Κρήτη, Βαβυλών, Μεσοποταμία, Ἀσσυρία τε καὶ Κυκλάδες νῆσοι οὐ μετρίαις περιπεσοῦνται συμφοραῖς· χάσματα γὰρ κατ' αὐτὰς γενήσεται, οἵ τε γονεῖς θρηνήσονται τοὺς ἑαυτῶν παῖδας· οὐχ ἥκιστα δὲ χειμῶνες ξηροὶ καὶ παρθένων ἀνδραποδισμοί. ἡ δὲ ἐλαία πρὸς τοῖς ἄλλοις τοῦ φθινοπώρου καρποῖς ἐπιτεύξεται. τὰ δὲ κακὰ ταῖς θηλείαις μᾶλλον τῶν ζῴων ἢ τοῖς ἄρρεσι συμβήσεται, ὅτι θῆλυ ζῴδιον ἡ παρθένος. Ἥλιος ἐν ζυγῷ. εἰ κατὰ τόδε καιροῦ σεισμὸς γένηται, ἐπὶ μὲν τῆς ἄνω Ἀσίας Βακτρία, Κασπία, Σηρική, ἐπὶ δὲ Λιβύης Τρωγλοδυτικὴ Θῆβαί τε Αἰγύπτιαι καὶ πρὸς αὐταῖς Ὄασις οὐ μετρίως στυγνάσουσιν.","english":"They will be lunar, because Cancer is the house of the moon. But greater violence will befall women, and especially those who prostitute themselves, because Cancer is a female creature and of Aphrodite, since Aphrodite is the same as the moon. Sun in Leo. If a commotion occurs, it is not good for Asia—for all Phoenicia and Orchenia—and for Europe—for the Italians and Sicilians and Gauls—and moreover not good for all Libya either; for the flocks will be destroyed by famine, and there will be heavy rain and clouds of locusts. And the so-called brouchos will ravage the crops, and there will be destructions of men, so that nearly all households will be left desolate. And the lions, in whatever places they occur, will rush more murderously against men; but upon those in whose lands they are not wont to appear, acute fever will fall. And males will feel more harm, and especially those toward the rising sun, because the lion is a male and solar creature. Sun in Virgo. As the sun proceeds to Virgo, if a commotion occurs, Greece, Achaia, Crete, Babylon, Mesopotamia, Assyria and the Cycladic islands will fall into no moderate misfortunes; for chasms will open throughout them, and parents will mourn their own children; and not least, dry winters and the enslavement of maidens. And the olive, along with the other fruits of autumn, will be successful. But the evils will befall the female animals rather than the males, because Virgo is a female creature. Sun in Libra. If at this season an earthquake occurs, in upper Asia Bactria, Caspia, Serica, and in Libya the Troglodytic region, Egyptian Thebes and, besides these, Oasis, will be gloom-stricken no moderately.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":80,"ref":"p80","source":"οἱ γὰρ κρατοῦντες καταπράξονται τῶν εἰρημένων χωρίων, ὡς ἐξ ἀπογνώσεως τὸ πλῆθος ἐπαναστῆναι αὐτοῖς. τὰ δὲ ἱερὰ παραβαθήσεται οὕτω βεβήλως ὡς μηδένα τυχεῖν τῶν εὐχῶν. καὶ οἱ μὲν αὐτόχθονες πόρρω που τῶν ἐνεγκουσῶν ἐλαθήσονται, στρατεύμασι δὲ βαρβαρικοῖς οἱ εἰρημένοι ταραχθήσονται τόποι. λιμὸς ἄρα· πῶς γὰρ οὐχί; καὶ ἐλαττουμένης πανταχοῦ τῆς ἀνδρικῆς φύσεως, ὅτι ἄρρεν ζῴδιον ὁ ζυγός. Ἥλιος ἐν σκορπίῳ. ἐπὶ τὸν σκορπίον ἡλίου διαβαίνοντος εἰ σάλον γενέσθαι συμβαίη, ἐπὶ μὲν τῆς ἄνω Ἀσίας Συρία μέση ἤτοι Κομμαγηνὴ καὶ Κασπία, ἐπὶ δὲ Εὐρώπης Ἰταλία καὶ Τυρσηνία καὶ ἕως δύνοντος ἡλίου Μαυρουσία τε καὶ Γαιτουλία ἐμπρησμοῖς ἀσχέτοις ἐκτεφρωθήσονται, οὐδ' αὐτῶν τῶν ἱερῶν περισωζομένων τοῖς τόποις. πόλεμοί τε ἔσονται ἀτυχεῖς τῇ νεολαίᾳ, ἐπικερδεῖς δὲ τοῖς στρατηγοῖς· βάρβαροι δὲ καθέξουσι Ῥωμαίοις ἀνήκοντα χωρία. πλείων δὲ ἡ κατὰ γυναικῶν τοῖς πράγμασι ζημία, ὅτι θῆλυ ζῴδιον ὁ σκορπίος. Ἥλιος ἐν τοξότῃ. ὅταν ὁ ἥλιος ἐπὶ τὸν τοξότην ἔλθῃ, εἰ σεισμὸν συμβαίη γενέσθαι, ἐπὶ μὲν τῆς μεγάλης Ἀσίας τῇ εὐδαίμονι Ἀραβίᾳ, ἐπὶ δὲ τῆς Εὐρώπης Τυρσηνίᾳ, Κελτικῇ καὶ Ἱσπανίᾳ βλάβαι οὐχ αἱ τυχοῦσαι συμβήσονται. φθαρήσεται γὰρ λιμῷ τὰ βοσκήματα, ὁ δὲ ὠκεανὸς παρὰ τὸ πεφυκὸς ἐκχυθήσεται ὡς καὶ αὐτὴν Κάλπην ἐπικλυσθῆναι, πόλεις τε κατομβρίᾳ κινδυνεύσουσιν. ἡ δὲ ἀνδρεία φύσις ἐξ ἐνδείας τῶν ἀναγκαίων πανταχοῦ φθαρήσεται, ὅτι ἄρρεν ζῴδιον ὁ τοξότης. Ἥλιος ἐν αἰγόκερῳ.","english":"For those in power will bring these said regions to heel, so that the multitude, out of despair, will rise up against them. Sacred rites will be transgressed so profanely that no one will obtain their prayers. And the natives will be driven far from the lands that bore them, and the said places will be thrown into confusion by barbarian armies. Then famine—for how could it not be?—since the masculine nature is everywhere diminished, because the Balance is a male creature. The Sun in Scorpio. When the Sun passes into Scorpio, if a commotion should occur, in Upper Asia middle Syria, that is Commagene, and Caspia, and in Europe Italy and Tyrrhenia, and as far as the setting of the sun Mauretania and Gaetulia will be reduced to ashes by unrelenting conflagrations, nor will the sacred places themselves in those regions be preserved. And there will be wars unfortunate for the young, but profitable for the generals; and barbarians will occupy regions belonging to the Romans. But the damage to affairs against women will be greater, because the Scorpion is a female creature. The Sun in Sagittarius. Whenever the Sun comes into Sagittarius, if an earthquake should occur, in great Asia, in prosperous Arabia, and in Europe, in Tyrrhenia, Celtica, and Hispania, no ordinary harms will befall. For the flocks will be destroyed by famine, and the ocean will pour out beyond its nature, so that even Calpe itself is flooded, and cities will be in danger from a downpour. And the courageous nature will be destroyed everywhere from want of necessities, because the Archer is a male creature. The Sun in Capricorn.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":81,"ref":"p81","source":"ὅταν δὲ ἥλιος ἀποστρέφων ἀπὸ τοῦ νοτίου καμπτῆρος ἐπὶ τὸν αἰγόκερων ἔλθῃ, εἰ σεισμὸν συμβαίη γενέσθαι, ἐπὶ μὲν τῆς ἄνω Ἀσίας πᾶσα ἡ Ἰνδικὴ Ἀριανή τε καὶ Γεδρωσία, ἐπὶδὲ τῆς κάτω Φρυγία τε πᾶσα καὶ Ἑλλήσποντος, ἐπὶ δὲ τῆς Εὐρώπης Μακεδονία καὶ Θρᾴκη πρὸς τῷ Ἰλλυρικῷ ἕως Ἴστρου ποταμοῦ οὐ μετρίως ταραχθήσονται πρὸς τῶν πλησιοχώρων, καὶ οἱ χείμαρροι τὰ λήϊα καταχώσουσι, προσεπιλιμωττόντων τῶν βοσκη μάτων. ἐμφύλιοί τε πόλεμοι ἔσονται, ὀνείρων δὲ καὶ μαντευμάτων ψευδῶν ὄχλος· ἐνιαχοῦ δὲ καὶ πόλεις ἀθρόως καταποντισθήσονται. Ἥλιος ἐν ὑδροχόῳ. ἡλίου ἐπὶ ὑδροχόον ἰόντος εἰ γένηται σεισμός, ἐπὶ μὲν τῆς ἄνω Ἀσίας Ὀξιανή, Σογδιανή, Ἀραβία μικρὰ καὶ Ἀζανία, ἐπὶ δὲ τῆς Λιβύης Αἰθιοπία μικρά, τῆς δὲ Εὐρώπης ἡ Θρᾴκη ἕως Ἰλλυρικοῦ σφόδρα ταραχθήσονται·\n\nπόλεμοι γὰρ βαρεῖς ἐπιπεσοῦνται ταῖς χώραις. τῇ δὲ Μακεδόνων χώρᾳ τὰ χείριστα συμβήσεται, ὡς ἐγγὺς ἀφανισμοῦ γενέσθαι. Ἥλιος ἐν ἰχθύσιν. ὅταν δὲ ἐν ἰχθύσι γένηται ἥλιος, ἐὰν συμβῇ σάλος, ἐπὶ μὲν τῆς κάτω Ἀσίας ἡ καθ' ἡμᾶς Λυδία Κιλικία τε καὶ Παμφυλία, ἐπὶ δὲ Λιβύης Νασαμωνῖτις καὶ Γαραμαντικὴ ὑπὸ πολεμίων ξένων τε καὶ ἐμφυλίων δῃωθήσονται. αἱ δὲ πρὸς τῷ Πόντῳ κείμεναι πόλεις καὶ τὰ ἐπίνεια πειρατικαῖς ἐφόδοις ταραχθήσονται, οἱ δὲ δῆμοι τῶν εἰρημένων χωρῶν μηδεμιᾶς ὑποκειμένης αἰτίας κατ' ἀλλήλων ἐξενεχθήσονται· κατομβρίαι τε ἔσονται οὐχ ἥττους κατακλυσμοῦ, καὶ εὐχαὶ ἄπρακτοι καὶ ἔνδεια τροφίμων καρπῶν. ἐκ δὲ τῆς περὶ τὴν γῆν ὑγρότητος ὁ σπόρος ἄχρηστος, ἡ δὲ θάλασσα ταραχώδης καὶ ἐγγὺς ἄπλους.","english":"But when the sun turns back from the southern turning-point and comes to Capricorn, if an earthquake should occur, then in Upper Asia all India, Arianē, and Gedrosia; in Lower Asia all Phrygia and the Hellespont; and in Europe Macedonia and Thrace, together with Illyricum as far as the river Ister, will be greatly disturbed by their neighbors, and the winter torrents will bury the crops, while the grazing herds are further afflicted by famine. Civil wars will also occur, and a multitude of dreams and false prophecies; and in some places cities will suddenly be swallowed up. The Sun in Aquarius. If, when the sun is entering Aquarius, an earthquake should occur, then in Upper Asia Oxianē, Sogdianē, small Arabia, and Azania; in Libya, small Ethiopia; and in Europe, Thrace as far as Illyricum, will be greatly disturbed; for heavy wars will fall upon these regions. But for the land of the Macedonians the worst will happen, so as to come near to destruction. The Sun in Pisces. But when the sun is in Pisces, if a shock should occur, then in Lower Asia our own Lydia, Cilicia, and Pamphylia; and in Libya, Nasamonitis and Garamantikē will be ravaged by foreign and civil enemies. The cities situated by the Pontus and their harbors will be disturbed by pirate raids, and the peoples of the said regions will be carried away against one another with no cause underlying it; there will be rainstorms no less than a deluge, and prayers ineffective, and a scarcity of nourishing fruits. From the moisture around the earth the seed will be useless, and the sea will be turbulent and nearly unnavigable.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":82,"ref":"p82","source":"ἐκ δὲ παραδόξου μετ' οὐ πολὺ τὰ πράγματα ἐπὶ τὸ βέλτιον ἔσται, καὶ συντόμως εἰπεῖν ἀναλόγως τοῖς κακοῖς εὐφροσύνη.\n\n5970 ΕΦΗΜΕΡΙΣ ΤΟΥ ΠΑΝΤΟΣ ΕΝΙΑΥΤΟΥ ΕΚ ΤΩΝ ΚΛΩΔΙΟΥ ΤΟΥ ΘΟΥΣΚΟΥ ΚΑΘ' ΕΡΜΗΝΕΙΑΝ ΠΡΟΣ ΛΕΞΙΝ ΙΑΝΟΥΑΡΙΟΣ αʹ. Καλένδαις μακραὶ ἡμέραι ἄρχονται· ὁ ἥλιος ὑψοῦται, ὁ δ' ἀετὸς σὺν τῷ στεφάνῳ δύεται καὶ ποιεῖ χειμῶνας. βʹ. τῇ πρὸ δʹ νωνῶν Ἰανουαρίων ὁ μὲν ἥλιος πηδᾷ, τὸ δὲ μέσον τοῦ καρκίνου δύεται, καὶ οἱ ἄνεμοι ἐναλλάττονται. γʹ. τῇ πρὸ γʹ νωνῶν τὸ λοιπὸν τοῦ καρκίνου δύεται, καὶ τροπὴ τοῦ ἀέρος ποικίλη. δʹ. τῇ πρὸ αʹ τὸ μέσον τοῦ χειμῶνος καὶ νότος πολύς, εἶτα καὶ βορραῖ συνεχεῖς. καὶ ὁ δελφὶν ἀνίσχει ἅμα τῷ κυνὶ περὶ τὸν ὄρθρον. εʹ. νώναις Ἰανουαρίαις ἡ λύρα ἀνίσχει, καὶ ὁ μὲν ἀετὸς δύεται, ὁ δὲ δελφὶν ὅλος ἐπιτέλλει. καὶ εἰκότως ἀνεμομαχία. ςʹ. τῇ πρὸ ηʹ εἰδῶν Ἰανουαρίων ἐν μὲν ἑσπέρᾳ ὁ ἀετὸς δύεται, νότος δὲ πνεῖ. ζʹ. τῇ πρὸ ζʹ εἰδῶν ἀπαρκτίας καὶ βορέας κατ' ἀλλήλων μάχονται. ηʹ. τῇ πρὸ ςʹ εἰδῶν οἶκος Ἄρεως· νότος ἅμα καὶ ζέφυρος· ὁ δὲ αἰγόκερως ἄρχεται ἀνατέλλειν. βροχή τε ἅμα καὶ ἐν ἑσπέρᾳ νότος πυκνός. θʹ. τῇ πρὸ εʹ εἰδῶν νότος φυσᾷ σύνομβρος. ιʹ. τῇ πρὸ δʹ εἰδῶν ὁμοίως· ὁ δὲ νότος βιαιότερος. ιαʹ. τῇ πρὸ γʹ εἰδῶν ἀπαρκτίας μετὰ βροχῆς καὶ χιόνος. ιβʹ. τῇ πρὸ αʹ εἰδῶν νότος πνεῖ. ιγʹ. εἰδοῖς Ἰανουαρίαις ἄστρον κρυπτόν. καὶ πρῶτον μὲν λόγος τὸν ὀϊστὸν δύεσθαι, ἐν δὲ τῇ νυκτὶ βρέχειν. ιδʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιθʹ καλενδῶν Φεβρουαρίων ἄστρον κρυπτόν, καὶ ποικίλη τροπὴ βορέου ἅμα καὶ ἀπαρκτίου. καὶ ὁ μὲν λέων ἄρχεται δύεσθαι, ἔσθ' ὅτε δὲ βρέχει. ιεʹ.","english":"But unexpectedly, not long after, affairs will be for the better, and, to speak briefly, gladness will correspond to the evils.\n\n5970 THE EPHEMERIS OF THE WHOLE YEAR, FROM THE CLAUDIUS OF THUSCUS, TRANSLATED WORD FOR WORD. JANUARY 1. On the Kalends long days begin; the sun is raised high, the Eagle sets together with the Crown and brings wintry weather. 2. On the fourth day before the Nones of January the sun leaps, the middle of Cancer sets, and the winds shift. 3. On the third day before the Nones the rest of Cancer sets, and the change of the air is variable. 4. On the day before the Nones is the middle of winter and much south wind, then also continuous north winds. And the Dolphin rises together with the Dog-star around dawn. 5. On the Nones of January the Lyre rises, the Eagle sets, and the Dolphin rises whole. And fittingly there is a battle of winds. 6. On the eighth day before the Ides of January in the evening the Eagle sets, and the south wind blows. 7. On the seventh day before the Ides the north-northwest and the north wind fight against each other. 8. On the sixth day before the Ides, the house of Ares; south wind together with west wind; and Capricorn begins to rise. Rain at the same time, and in the evening a thick south wind. 9. On the fifth day before the Ides the south wind blows with rain. 10. On the fourth day before the Ides likewise; and the south wind more violent. 11. On the third day before the Ides, north-northwest with rain and snow. 12. On the day before the Ides the south wind blows. 13. On the Ides of January a hidden star. And first the account is that the Arrow sets, and in the night it rains. 14. On the nineteenth day before the Kalends of February a hidden star, and a variable change of north wind together with north-northwest. And the Lion begins to set, and sometimes it rains. 15.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":83,"ref":"p83","source":"τῇ πρὸ ιηʹ καλενδῶν ἀπαρκτίας καὶ βορρᾶς σφοδρός. ιςʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιζʹ καλενδῶν ὁ μὲν ἥλιος ἐν ὑδροχόῳ, εὖρος δὲ μετὰ βροχῆς. ιζʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιςʹ καλενδῶν ἡ μὲν λύρα ἄρχεται δύεσθαι, περὶ δὲ τὸν ὄρθρον ἀνεμομαχία. ιηʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιεʹ καλενδῶν ἕωθεν μὲν δύεται ὁ λέων. βορέου ἅμα καὶ νότου καὶ ἀπαρκτίου διαφορά, καὶ βροχή. ὁ δὲ δελφὶν μετὰ λέοντα δύεται. ιθʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιδʹ καλενδῶν τροπή, καὶ τὸ μεσαίτατον τοῦ χειμῶνος. κʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιγʹ καλενδῶν βορρᾶς καὶ νότος. καὶ τὸ μέσον μὲν τοῦ καρκίνου δύεται, ὁ δὲ ὑδροχόος ἄρχεται ἀνίσχειν. καʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιβʹ καλενδῶν ὁ ὑδροχόος παντελὴς ἀνίσχει, πνεῖ δὲ ὁ λίψ, καὶ ὕει. κβʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιαʹ καλενδῶν ἡ λύρα δύεται σὺν τῷ καρκίνῳ, καὶ πρὸς ἑσπέραν ὕει. κγʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιʹ καλενδῶν βορρᾶς πνεύσει μετὰ βροχῆς. κδʹ. τῇ πρὸ θʹ καλενδῶν χειμὼν καὶ βορέου ἐπίτασις ἅμα καὶ εὔρου. κεʹ. τῇ πρὸ ηʹ καλενδῶν ὡσαύτως. κςʹ. τῇ πρὸ ζʹ καλενδῶν χειμάζει, πνεῖ δὲ ὁ βορρᾶς σὺν τῷ εὔρῳ, καὶ ἄρχεται δύεσθαι ἡ λύρα. κζʹ. τῇ πρὸ ςʹ καλενδῶν ἄστρον λαμπρὸν ἐν τῷ στήθει τοῦ λέοντος ἄρχεται δύεσθαι, ἡ δὲ λύρα ἐν ἑσπέρᾳ. καὶ βορρᾶς πνεῖ, ἔστι δ' ὅτε καὶ ὕει. κηʹ. τῇ πρὸ εʹ καλενδῶν ἀνεμομαχία μετὰ χιόνος. κθʹ. τῇ πρὸ δʹ καλενδῶν ὁ δελφὶν δύεσθαι μελετᾷ. λʹ. τῇ πρὸ γʹ καλενδῶν ἡ λύρα περὶ τὴν πρώτην φυλακὴν τῆς νυκτὸς ἄρχεται δύεσθαι ἐκ","english":"On the day before the eighteenth of the Kalends: a strong north wind and Aquilo. 16. On the day before the seventeenth of the Kalends: the sun is in Aquarius, and there is a southeast wind with rain. 17. On the day before the sixteenth of the Kalends: the Lyre begins to set, and around dawn a battle of winds. 18. On the day before the fifteenth of the Kalends: at dawn the Lion sets. There is a difference of Boreas together with Notus and Aparktias, and rain. And the Dolphin sets after the Lion. 19. On the day before the fourteenth of the Kalends: the solstice, and the very middle of winter. 20. On the day before the thirteenth of the Kalends: Boreas and Notus. And the middle of Cancer sets, and Aquarius begins to rise. 21. On the day before the twelfth of the Kalends: Aquarius rises in full, and Lips blows, and it rains. 22. On the day before the eleventh of the Kalends: the Lyre sets together with Cancer, and toward evening it rains. 23. On the day before the tenth of the Kalends: Boreas will blow with rain. 24. On the day before the ninth of the Kalends: storm and an intensification of Boreas together with Eurus. 25. On the day before the eighth of the Kalends: likewise. 26. On the day before the seventh of the Kalends: it is stormy, and Boreas blows together with Eurus, and the Lyre begins to set. 27. On the day before the sixth of the Kalends: a bright star in the breast of the Lion begins to set, and the Lyre in the evening. And Boreas blows, and sometimes it also rains. 28. On the day before the fifth of the Kalends: a battle of winds with snow. 29. On the day before the fourth of the Kalends: the Dolphin is about to set. 30. On the day before the third of the Kalends: the Lyre begins to set around the first watch of the night, from","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":84,"ref":"p84","source":"μέρους. καὶ συννέφεια ἔσται, καὶ σφοδρὸς βορρᾶς μετὰ βροχῆς. λαʹ. τῇ πρὸ αʹ καλενδῶν Φεβρουαρίων ὑετὸς χιόνι μεμιγμένος.\n\n60 ΦΕΒΡΟΥΑΡΙΟΣ αʹ. καλένδαις Φεβρουαρίαις κρυπτὸν ἄστρον, νότος καὶ εὖρος· καὶ ἡ λύρα ἄρχεται δύεσθαι. βʹ. τῇ πρὸ δʹ νωνῶν Φεβρουαρίων θυελλώδης ὁ ἀήρ, καὶ παραπνεύσει ὁ ζέφυρος. γʹ. τῇ πρὸ γʹ νωνῶν τὸ μέσον τοῦ λέοντος σὺν τῇ λύρᾳ δύεται. ἀπαρκτίας δὲ ἅμα καὶ βορρᾶς. δʹ. τῇ πρὸ αʹ νωνῶν δύεται ὁ δελφίν· καὶ ἐν ἑσπέρᾳ νότος ἐπιτείνει μετὰ βροχῆς. εʹ. νώναις Φεβρουαρίαις τοῦ ὑδροχόου τὰ μέσα ἀνίσχει· ταραχώδης δὲ ὁ ἀὴρ ἐκ τοῦ ζεφύρου. ςʹ. τῇ πρὸ ηʹ εἰδῶν Φεβρουαρίων δύεται ἡ λύρα, καὶ ὁ ζέφυρος ἀπὸ δυσμῶν πνεῖ. ζʹ. τῇ πρὸ ζʹ εἰδῶν ἀρχὴ ἔαρος, καθ' ὃ ζέφυρος πνεῖ. ηʹ. τῇ πρὸ ςʹ εἰδῶν ζέφυρος σὺν τῷ βορρᾷ πνεῖ. θʹ. τῇ πρὸ εʹ εἰδῶν ἄστρον κρυπτόν· καὶ ἀνίσχει ὁ ὑδροχόος. ιʹ. τῇ πρὸ δʹ εἰδῶν ἀπαρκτίας μετὰ ζεφύρου· ἔστι δ' ὅτε καὶ βροχαί. ιαʹ. τῇ πρὸ γʹ εἰδῶν ἀπηλιώτης πνεῖ, καὶ ἀνίσχει ὁ ἀρκτοῦρος. ιβʹ. τῇ πρὸ αʹ εἰδῶν Φεβρουαρίων ἀνεμομαχία. ιγʹ. εἰδοῖς Φεβρουαρίαις ὁ τοξότης ἐν ἑσπέρᾳ δύεται, καὶ σφοδρὸς χειμών. ιδʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιςʹ καλενδῶν Μαρτίων ὁ κρατὴρ ἀνίσχει ἐν ἑσπέρᾳ, καὶ ἐναλλαγέντων τῶν ἀνέμων ὁ νότος ἐπικρατεῖ. ιεʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιεʹ καλενδῶν ὁ ἥλιος ἐν ἰχθύσιν, καὶ ὁ ἀὴρ χειμαίνει. ιςʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιδʹ καλενδῶν ἀπαρκτίας πνεύσει μετὰ τοῦ νότου· νέος δὲ ἥλιος. ιζʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιγʹ καλενδῶν δύεται ἡ παρθένος· ῥεύσει δὲ νότος μετὰ ζεφύρου καὶ βορρᾶς. ιηʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιβʹ καλενδῶν δύεται ὁ λεγόμενος ὀϊστός. ἐν ἑσπέρᾳ δὲ ζέφυρος πνεῖ, καὶ ἄρχεται ἡ παρθένος δύεσθαι. ιθʹ.","english":"of the month. And there will be cloudiness, and a violent north wind with rain. 31. On the day before the first of the Kalends of February: rain mixed with snow.\n\n60 FEBRUARY. 1. On the Kalends of February: a hidden star; south wind and southeast wind; and the Lyre begins to set. 2. On the day before the fourth of the Nones of February: the air is stormy, and the west wind will blow. 3. On the day before the third of the Nones: the middle of Leo sets together with the Lyre. And there is a north wind together with Aquilo. 4. On the day before the first of the Nones: the Dolphin sets; and in the evening the south wind strengthens with rain. 5. On the Nones of February: the middle of Aquarius rises; and the air is disturbed by the west wind. 6. On the day before the eighth of the Ides of February: the Lyre sets, and the west wind blows from the west. 7. On the day before the seventh of the Ides: the beginning of spring, at which the west wind blows. 8. On the day before the sixth of the Ides: the west wind blows together with the north wind. 9. On the day before the fifth of the Ides: a hidden star; and Aquarius rises. 10. On the day before the fourth of the Ides: a north wind with the west wind; and sometimes there are rains. 11. On the day before the third of the Ides: the east wind blows, and Arcturus rises. 12. On the day before the first of the Ides of February: a battle of winds. 13. On the Ides of February: the Archer sets in the evening, and there is a violent storm. 14. On the day before the sixteenth of the Kalends of March: the Cup rises in the evening, and when the winds have shifted, the south wind prevails. 15. On the day before the fifteenth of the Kalends: the sun is in Pisces, and the air is wintry. 16. On the day before the fourteenth of the Kalends: a north wind will blow together with the south wind; and a new sun. 17. On the day before the thirteenth of the Kalends: the Virgin sets; and the south wind will flow together with the west wind and the north wind. 18. On the day before the twelfth of the Kalends: the so-called Arrow sets. And in the evening the west wind blows, and the Virgin begins to set. 19.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":85,"ref":"p85","source":"τῇ πρὸ ιαʹ καλενδῶν ἀπαρκτίας ῥεύσει μετὰ νότου· τὸν δὲ ὀϊστόν φασι δύεσθαι. κʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιʹ καλενδῶν βορρᾶς μετὰ βροχῆς. καὶ ὁ λέων δύεται· ἄρχονται δὲ οἱ βορραῖ οἱ λεγόμενοι χελιδόνιοι, οἳ πεφύκασιν ἐπὶ τριάκοντα ἡμέρας πνεῖν, καὶ φαίνεται χελιδών. καʹ. τῇ πρὸ θʹ καλενδῶν ὁ ἀρκτοῦρος τῇ πρώτῃ φυλακῇ τῆς νυκτὸς ἄρχεται δύεσθαι, καὶ πνεῖ ζέφυρος. ἡ δὲ νὺξ συννεφής. κβʹ. τῇ πρὸ ηʹ καλενδῶν τὰ λεγόμενα Ἀλκυόνεια. κγʹ. τῇ πρὸ ζʹ καλενδῶν ὁ ὑδροχόος ἄρχεται ἀνίσχειν, ἡ δὲ πρωϊνὴ χειμάζει. κδʹ. τῇ πρὸ ςʹ καλενδῶν ἀργεστὴς πνεῖ ἅμα καὶ βορρᾶς. κεʹ. τῇ πρὸ εʹ καλενδῶν ὁ ἀρκτοῦρος ἀνίσχει, καὶ ὕει. κςʹ. τῇ πρὸ δʹ καλενδῶν ὁ ἀρκτοῦρος ἀνίσχει ἐν ἑσπέρᾳ. κζʹ. τῇ πρὸ γʹ καλενδῶν δύεται ἐν ἑσπέρᾳ ὁ παρ' Ἕλλησι λεγόμενος ὀϊστός. κηʹ. τῇ πρὸ αʹ καλενδῶν Μαρτίων ὁ ζέφυρος πλατύς, καὶ ἡ ἡμέρα πᾶσα ἐαρινή.\n\n61 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΣ αʹ. καλένδαις Μαρτίαις νότος καὶ λίψ. βʹ. τῇ πρὸ ςʹ νωνῶν Μαρτίων λίψ, καὶ ὁ τρυγητὴς ἄρχεται φαίνεσθαι. βορέας δὲ ψυχρὸς πνεῖ ἕως τῆς ἑωθινῆς δύσεως τοῦ ἀρκτούρου. γʹ. τῇ πρὸ εʹ νωνῶν δυσαερία καὶ βροχή· καὶ ὁ ἀρκτοῦρος ἀνίσχει ἡλίου ἐγειρομένου, καὶ βορρᾶς πνεῖ. δʹ. τῇ πρὸ δʹ νωνῶν ὁ ἀρκτοῦρος ἐν ἑσπέρᾳ ἀνίσχει. εʹ. τῇ πρὸ γʹ νωνῶν ὡσαύτως. ςʹ. τῇ πρὸ αʹ νωνῶν ὑετὸς χιόνι μεμιγμένος. ζʹ. νώναις Μαρτίαις δύεται ὁ ἵππος ἀπὸ πρωί, καὶ βορρᾶς φυσᾷ. δύεται δὲ καὶ ὁ στέφανος ὄρθρου. ηʹ. τῇ πρὸ ηʹ εἰδῶν Μαρτίων ἄρχεται τὰ ὄρνεα φαίνεσθαι ἐπὶ τῆς θαλάσσης, βορρᾶς δὲ καὶ ἀπαρκτίας φυσᾷ, καὶ προοίμιον τοῦ ἔαρος. καὶ ὁ μὲν ἥλιος περὶ τὸ μέσον τῶν ἰχθύων, ὁ δὲ ἵππος δύεται. θʹ.","english":"On the day before the eleventh of the Kalends: a flow of the north wind together with the south wind; and they say that the Arrow sets. 20. On the day before the tenth of the Kalends: the north wind with rain. And the Lion sets; and the north winds called the Swallow-winds begin, which are accustomed to blow for thirty days, and the swallow appears. 21. On the day before the ninth of the Kalends: Arcturus begins to set in the first watch of the night, and the west wind blows. And the night is cloudy. 22. On the day before the eighth of the Kalends: the so-called Halcyon days. 23. On the day before the seventh of the Kalends: the Water-bearer begins to rise, and the morning is stormy. 24. On the day before the sixth of the Kalends: the northwest wind blows together with the north wind. 25. On the day before the fifth of the Kalends: Arcturus rises, and it rains. 26. On the day before the fourth of the Kalends: Arcturus rises in the evening. 27. On the day before the third of the Kalends: there sets in the evening what the Greeks call the Arrow. 28. On the day before the first of the Kalends of March: the west wind is broad, and the whole day is springlike.\n\n61 MARCH 1. On the Kalends of March: the south wind and the southwest wind. 2. On the day before the sixth of the Nones of March: the southwest wind, and the Vintager begins to appear. And a cold north wind blows until the morning setting of Arcturus. 3. On the day before the fifth of the Nones: foul weather and rain; and Arcturus rises at sunrise, and the north wind blows. 4. On the day before the fourth of the Nones: Arcturus rises in the evening. 5. On the day before the third of the Nones: likewise. 6. On the day before the first of the Nones: rain mixed with snow. 7. On the Nones of March: the Horse sets from morning, and the north wind blows. And the Crown also sets at dawn. 8. On the day before the eighth of the Ides of March: the birds begin to appear at sea, and the north wind and the north-northwest wind blow, and it is a prelude of spring. And the sun is about the middle of the Fishes, and the Horse sets. 9.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":86,"ref":"p86","source":"τῇ πρὸ ζʹ εἰδῶν ἰκτῖνος ἄρχεται φαίνεσθαι, νότος δὲ πνεῖ, καὶ ὄρθρου ὁ ἰχθὺς ἀπὸ τοῦ νότου ἄρχεται κρύπτεσθαι. ιʹ. τῇ πρὸ ςʹ εἰδῶν ὁ ἵππος δύεται ὄρθρου, ὁ δὲ ἰκτῖνος ἀπὸ ὑψηλῶν ἐπὶ τὰ χθαμαλὰ καθίπταται· καὶ ὁ μὲν τρυγητὴς δύεται, ὁ δὲ ἀρκτοῦρος ἀνίσχει. βορρᾶς δὲ ψυχρὸς ῥεύσει. ιαʹ. τῇ πρὸ εʹ εἰδῶν χωρισμὸς μὲν τοῦ χειμῶνος, τροπὴ δὲ ἀπὸ βορρᾶ καὶ ἀπαρκτίου. ιβʹ. τῇ πρὸ δʹ εἰδῶν παύεται μὲν ὁ ἰχθὺς\n\nἀπὸ τοῦ νότου ἀνίσχειν, ἀπαρκτίας δ' ἢ νότος φυσᾷ. ιγʹ. τῇ πρὸ γʹ εἰδῶν ἡ μὲν Ἀργὼ ἀνίσχει ἐν ἑσπέρᾳ, ζέφυρος δὲ καὶ νότος πνεύσει καὶ ὁ ἐπὶ τῆς οὐρᾶς τοῦ λέοντος δύεται· χειμάζει. ιδʹ. τῇ πρὸ αʹ εἰδῶν βορρᾶς δι' ὅλης τῆς ἡμέρας. ιεʹ. εἰδοῖς Μαρτίαις ὁ ἵππος δύεται, βορέας δὲ ψυχρὸς πνεῖ. ιςʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιζʹ καλενδῶν Ἀπριλίων ιζʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιςʹ καλενδῶν ἥλιος ἐν κριῷ γίνεται· ὁ δὲ ζέφυρος κατὰ πλάτος πνεῖ. πέλαργος φαίνεται καὶ μέγα πέλαγος πλέεται. ιηʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιεʹ καλενδῶν ἀνεμομαχία, ὁ δὲ βορρᾶς ἐπικρατεῖ. ιθʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιδʹ καλενδῶν νότος πνεῖ, ὁ δὲ ἰκτῖνος φαίνεται ἕως τῆς ἰσημερίας. κʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιγʹ καλενδῶν βορέας πνεῖ εὔδιος. καʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιβʹ καλενδῶν ὁ μὲν ἵππος ἕωθεν δύεται, βορέας δὲ ἢ ἀπαρκτίας πνεῖ. κβʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιαʹ καλενδῶν ὁ κριὸς εἰς πλάτος ἀνίσχει, ἔστι δ' ὅτε ἢ βρέχει ἢ νίφει. κγʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιʹ καλενδῶν ὡσαύτως. κδʹ. τῇ πρὸ θʹ καλενδῶν ἰσημερία ἐαρινή, καὶ βροχὴ ἢ βροντώδης τροπή. κεʹ. τῇ πρὸ ηʹ καλενδῶν ἀπαρκτίας ἢ βορρᾶς, καὶ ὁ ἵππος ἕωθεν δύεται. κςʹ. τῇ πρὸ ζʹ καλενδῶν οἱ ἰχθύες ἀνίσχουσι, καὶ ἐκ τοῦ νότου βρέχει μετὰ χιόνος·","english":"On the day before the seventh of the Ides, the kite begins to appear, and the south wind blows, and at dawn the Fish begins to hide from the south. 10. On the day before the sixth of the Ides, the Horse sets at dawn, and the kite swoops down from the heights to the lowlands; and the Vintager sets, and Arcturus rises. And a cold north wind will flow. 11. On the day before the fifth of the Ides, there is a parting of winter, and a turning from the north and the north-northwest. 12. On the day before the fourth of the Ides, the Fish ceases to rise from the south, and either the north-northwest or the south blows. 13. On the day before the third of the Ides, Argo rises in the evening, and the west wind and the south wind will blow, and the star on the tail of the Lion sets; it is stormy. 14. On the day before the first of the Ides, a north wind through the whole day. 15. On the Ides of March, the Horse sets, and a cold north wind blows. 16. On the day before the seventeenth of the Kalends of April. 17. On the day before the sixteenth of the Kalends, the sun enters Aries; and the west wind blows across the breadth. The stork appears and the great sea is sailed. 18. On the day before the fifteenth of the Kalends, a battle of winds, and the north wind prevails. 19. On the day before the fourteenth of the Kalends, the south wind blows, and the kite appears until the equinox. 20. On the day before the thirteenth of the Kalends, a fair north wind blows. 21. On the day before the twelfth of the Kalends, the Horse sets at dawn, and either the north wind or the north-northwest blows. 22. On the day before the eleventh of the Kalends, the Ram rises across the breadth, and sometimes it either rains or snows. 23. On the day before the tenth of the Kalends, likewise. 24. On the day before the ninth of the Kalends, the spring equinox, and rain or a thundering turning. 25. On the day before the eighth of the Kalends, the north-northwest or the north wind, and the Horse sets at dawn. 26. On the day before the seventh of the Kalends, the Fishes rise, and from the south it rains with snow.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":87,"ref":"p87","source":"ὁ δὲ κριὸς ἕωθεν ἀνίσχει, κατὰ θάλασσαν ταραχὴ ἀέρος. κζʹ. τῇ πρὸ ςʹ καλενδῶν ἰσημερία ἐαρινή. ἔστι δ' ὅτε βρέχει καὶ βροντᾷ. κηʹ. τῇ πρὸ εʹ καλενδῶν ἐξισοῦται ἡ ἡμέρα τῇ νυκτί. κθʹ. τῇ πρὸ δʹ καλενδῶν ὁ μὲν σκορπίος δύεται, μέγας δὲ ῥέων ἄνεμος βροχὰς βροντώδεις συστρέφει. λʹ. τῇ πρὸ γʹ καλενδῶν ὁ μὲν σκορπίος δύεται, ἀπαρκτίας δὲ φυσᾷ μετὰ βροχῆς. λαʹ. τῇ πρὸ αʹ καλενδῶν βρέχειν πέφυκε, καὶ ἐκ τοῦ νότου βροντᾷ.\n\n62 ΑΠΡΙΛΙΟΣ αʹ. καλένδαις Ἀπριλίαις ὁ μὲν σκορπίος δύεται, καὶ ὁ ἥλιος μίαν ἡμέρᾳ προστίθησι μοῖραν, καὶ συννέφεια γίνεται ἐκ τοῦ βορρᾶ, καὶ αἱ πλειάδες ἄρχονται ἐπιτέλλειν καὶ ἐπισημαίνειν. βʹ. τῇ πρὸ δʹ νωνῶν Ἀπριλίων συννέφεια καθ' ὅλην τὴν ἡμέραν. γʹ. τῇ πρὸ γʹ νωνῶν ἐν ἑσπέρᾳ αἱ πλειάδες δύονται. δʹ. τῇ πρὸ αʹ νωνῶν ῥεύσει ὁ λίψ. εʹ. νώναις Ἀπριλίαις καταπνεῖ ὁ ζέφυρος. ςʹ. τῇ πρὸ ηʹ εἰδῶν αἱ ὑάδες ἀνίσχουσι, καὶ βροχαὶ ἐκ τοῦ νότου ἐπιτείνουσιν. ζʹ. τῇ πρὸ ζʹ εἰδῶν νότος φυσᾷ, καὶ τὸ λοιπὸν τῶν ὑάδων δύεται. ηʹ. τῇ πρὸ ςʹ εἰδῶν ὁ ζυγὸς ὄρθρου ἄρχεται δύεσθαι. θʹ. τῇ πρὸ εʹ εἰδῶν ζάλη ἐκ τοῦ νότου. ιʹ. τῇ πρὸ δʹ εἰδῶν βορρᾶς μὲν πᾶσαν καταπνεῖ τὴν ἡμέραν, ἡ δὲ ἑσπέρα ἔσται ἐπίβροχος. ιαʹ. τῇ πρὸ γʹ εἰδῶν ψυχροὶ ἄνεμοι καὶ βροχαί. ιβʹ. τῇ πρὸ αʹ εἰδῶν αἱ ὑάδες κρύπτονται. ιγʹ. εἰδοῖς Ἀπριλίαις βορρᾶς ῥεύσει· μικροῦ παχνήτου ἀνατολή. ιδʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιηʹ καλενδῶν Μαΐων κρύφιον ἄστρον καὶ ἄνεμοι καὶ ὄμβροι. ιεʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιζʹ καλενδῶν ἡ ὑὰς δύεται καὶ ἄνεμοι ψυχροὶ πνέουσιν· ὁ δὲ Περσεὺς ἐπιτέλλει. ιςʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιςʹ καλενδῶν αἱ ὑάδες δύονται καὶ ζέφυρος πνεῖ. ιζʹ.","english":"The Ram rises at dawn; disturbance of the air at sea. 27. On the day before the sixth of the Kalends, the spring equinox. Sometimes it rains and thunders. 28. On the day before the fifth of the Kalends, the day is made equal to the night. 29. On the day before the fourth of the Kalends, the Scorpion sets, and a great flowing wind gathers thundering rains. 30. On the day before the third of the Kalends, the Scorpion sets, and the north wind blows with rain. 31. On the day before the first of the Kalends, it is its nature to rain, and it thunders from the south.\n\n62 APRIL. 1. On the Kalends of April, the Scorpion sets, and the sun adds one degree to the day, and cloudiness comes from the north, and the Pleiades begin to rise and to give signs. 2. On the day before the fourth of the Nones of April, cloudiness throughout the whole day. 3. On the day before the third of the Nones, in the evening the Pleiades set. 4. On the day before the first of the Nones, the southwest wind flows. 5. On the Nones of April, the west wind blows. 6. On the day before the eighth of the Ides, the Hyades rise, and rains from the south intensify. 7. On the day before the seventh of the Ides, the south wind blows, and the rest of the Hyades sets. 8. On the day before the sixth of the Ides, the Balance begins to set at dawn. 9. On the day before the fifth of the Ides, a storm from the south. 10. On the day before the fourth of the Ides, the north wind blows all day long, and the evening will be rainy. 11. On the day before the third of the Ides, cold winds and rains. 12. On the day before the first of the Ides, the Hyades are hidden. 13. On the Ides of April, the north wind will flow; rising of a little frost. 14. On the day before the eighteenth of the Kalends of May, a hidden star and winds and showers. 15. On the day before the seventeenth of the Kalends, the Hyad sets and cold winds blow; and Perseus rises. 16. On the day before the sixteenth of the Kalends, the Hyades set and the west wind blows. 17.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":88,"ref":"p88","source":"τῇ πρὸ ιεʹ καλενδῶν ὁ μὲν ἥλιος ἐν ταύρῳ, ἡ δὲ ὑὰς δύεται. ιηʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιδʹ καλενδῶν λὶψ καταπνεύσει. ιθʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιγʹ καλενδῶν καθόλου δύονται αἱ ὑάδες, ὁ δὲ λὶψ ἐν ἑσπέρᾳ ἐπέρχεται. κʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιβʹ καλενδῶν ὁ ζέφυρος καταπνεῖ. καʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιαʹ καλενδῶν ἡ κεφαλὴ τοῦ ταύρου δύεται, καὶ οὐχ ἥκιστα ὕει. κβʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιʹ καλενδῶν αἱ πλειάδες ἀνίσχουσι καὶ ζέφυρος πνεῖ. κγʹ. τῇ πρὸ θʹ καλενδῶν ἡ λύρα τῇ πρώτῃ φυλακῇ τῆς νυκτὸς φαίνεται, καὶ ἔσται τροπή. κδʹ. τῇ πρὸ ηʹ καλενδῶν φαίνεται ἡ λύρα, καὶ βροχῶν σημασία· ἀρχὴ παχνήτου καὶ ἔαρος· νότος πνεῖ. κεʹ. τῇ πρὸ ζʹ καλενδῶν ὁ σκορπίος δύεται· καὶ ὁ κύων κρύπτεται καὶ ὁ ἐπὶ τῆς ζώνης τοῦ Ὠρίωνος· νότος τε πνεῖ· ἀρχή τε παχνήτου καὶ ἔαρος. κςʹ. τῇ πρὸ ςʹ καλενδῶν δύεται καθόλου ἡ ὑάς, καὶ ἀέρος ἔσται τροπή. κζʹ. τῇ πρὸ εʹ καλενδῶν νότος καταπνεῖ. κηʹ. τῇ πρὸ δʹ καλενδῶν ὕει ἐκ τοῦ νότου. κθʹ. τῇ πρὸ γʹ καλενδῶν οἱ ἔριφοι ἀνίσχουσι, καὶ ἐξ ἑωθινῆς ὁ νότος πνεῖ. λʹ. τῇ πρὸ αʹ καλενδῶν κρύπτεται ὁ κύων ἐν ἑσπέρᾳ, καὶ τροπὴ ἐκ τοῦ νότου· ἅμα δὲ καὶ βορρᾶς ταράττει.","english":"On the day before the fifteenth of the Kalends, the sun is in Taurus, and the Hyades set. 18. On the day before the fourteenth of the Kalends, the southwest wind will blow. 19. On the day before the thirteenth of the Kalends, the Hyades set entirely, and the southwest wind comes on in the evening. 20. On the day before the twelfth of the Kalends, the west wind blows. 21. On the day before the eleventh of the Kalends, the head of Taurus sets, and it rains not least. 22. On the day before the tenth of the Kalends, the Pleiades rise and the west wind blows. 23. On the day before the ninth of the Kalends, the Lyre appears in the first watch of the night, and there will be a turning. 24. On the day before the eighth of the Kalends, the Lyre appears, and a sign of rains; the beginning of frost and spring; the south wind blows. 25. On the day before the seventh of the Kalends, the Scorpion sets; and the Dog is hidden, and the star on the belt of Orion; and the south wind blows; and the beginning of frost and spring. 26. On the day before the sixth of the Kalends, the Hyas sets entirely, and there will be a turning of the air. 27. On the day before the fifth of the Kalends, the south wind blows. 28. On the day before the fourth of the Kalends, it rains from the south. 29. On the day before the third of the Kalends, the Kids rise, and from dawn the south wind blows. 30. On the day before the first of the Kalends, the Dog is hidden in the evening, and a turning from the south; and at the same time the north wind disturbs.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":89,"ref":"p89","source":"63 ΜΑΙΟΣ αʹ. καλένδαις Μαΐαις ὁ μὲν κύων κρύπτεται, δρόσος δὲ καταφέρεται. βʹ. τῇ πρὸ ςʹ νωνῶν ἡ ὑὰς μετὰ τοῦ ἡλίου ἀνίσχει. γʹ. τῇ πρὸ εʹ νωνῶν ὁ κένταυρος ὅλος φαίνεται καὶ ζέφυρος πνεῖ. δʹ. τῇ πρὸ δʹ νωνῶν ὁ σκορπίος ἕωθεν ἀνίσχει, καὶ βορρᾶς πνεῖ, καὶ δρόσος καταφέρεται. εʹ. τῇ πρὸ γʹ νωνῶν ἡ λύρα ἕωθεν ἀνίσχει. ςʹ. τῇ πρὸ αʹ νωνῶν τὸ μέσον τοῦ σκορπίου δύεται. ζʹ. νώναις Μαΐαις αἱ πλειάδες ἀνίσχουσιν ἕωθεν, ζέφυρος δὲ πνεῖ. ηʹ. τῇ πρὸ ηʹ εἰδῶν Μαΐων προοίμιον θέρους, καὶ ζέφυρος ἐπικρατεῖ. θʹ. τῇ πρὸ ζʹ εἰδῶν Μαΐων ὡσαύτως. ιʹ. τῇ πρὸ ςʹ εἰδῶν ἡ μὲν λύρα ἀνίσχει, ἡ δὲ ὑὰς δύεται, καὶ ἡ κεφαλὴ τοῦ ταύρου ἀναφαίνεται. ιαʹ. τῇ πρὸ εʹ εἰδῶν αἱ πλειάδες ἀναφαίνονται. ιβʹ. τῇ πρὸ δʹ εἰδῶν ἀνίσχουσιν αἱ πλειάδες, καὶ νότος πνεῖ. ιγʹ. τῇ πρὸ γʹ εἰδῶν αἱ ὑάδες ἀνίσχουσιν καὶ νότος πνεῖ. ιδʹ. τῇ πρὸ αʹ εἰδῶν ὁ σκορπίος δύεται, ἡ δὲ λύρα ὄρθρου ἀνίσχει. ιεʹ. εἰδοῖς Μαΐαις ὁ καρκίνος ἀνίσχει καὶ νότος πνεῖ. ιςʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιζʹ καλενδῶν Ἰουνίων· τὸ θέρος ἄρχεται. ιζʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιςʹ καλενδῶν δύεται ὁ κύων. ιηʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιεʹ καλενδῶν ὁ ἥλιος ἐν διδύμοις. ιθʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιδʹ καλενδῶν νότος ἐν ἑσπέρᾳ πνεῖ. κʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιγʹ καλενδῶν αἱ ὑάδες ἀνίσχουσι καὶ βορρᾶς πνεῖ. καʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιβʹ καλενδῶν δύεται ὁ ἀρκτοῦρος καὶ ταράττεται ὁ ἀήρ. κβʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιαʹ καλενδῶν ὁ τοξότης δύεται καὶ νότος πνεῖ. κγʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιʹ καλενδῶν οἱ δίδυμοι ἀνίσχουσιν καὶ ὁ ἀετός. κδʹ. τῇ πρὸ θʹ καλενδῶν ἄρχονται ἀνίσχειν αἱ ὑάδες, καὶ εἰκότως βροχή. κεʹ. τῇ πρὸ ηʹ καλενδῶν ὁ ἔριφος ἀνίσχει ἕωθεν καὶ βορρᾶς πνεῖ. κςʹ.","english":"63 MAY 1. On the Kalends of May the Dog-star is hidden, and dew falls. 2. On the day before the sixth of the Nones the Hyad rises with the sun. 3. On the day before the fifth of the Nones the Centaur appears whole and the west wind blows. 4. On the day before the fourth of the Nones the Scorpion rises at dawn, and the north wind blows, and dew falls. 5. On the day before the third of the Nones the Lyre rises at dawn. 6. On the day before the first of the Nones the middle of the Scorpion sets. 7. On the Nones of May the Pleiades rise at dawn, and the west wind blows. 8. On the day before the eighth of the Ides of May, the prelude of summer, and the west wind prevails. 9. On the day before the seventh of the Ides of May likewise. 10. On the day before the sixth of the Ides the Lyre rises, and the Hyad sets, and the head of the Bull appears. 11. On the day before the fifth of the Ides the Pleiades appear. 12. On the day before the fourth of the Ides the Pleiades rise, and the south wind blows. 13. On the day before the third of the Ides the Hyades rise and the south wind blows. 14. On the day before the first of the Ides the Scorpion sets, and the Lyre rises at dawn. 15. On the Ides of May the Crab rises and the south wind blows. 16. On the day before the seventeenth of the Kalends of June: summer begins. 17. On the day before the sixteenth of the Kalends the Dog-star sets. 18. On the day before the fifteenth of the Kalends the sun is in Gemini. 19. On the day before the fourteenth of the Kalends the south wind blows in the evening. 20. On the day before the thirteenth of the Kalends the Hyades rise and the north wind blows. 21. On the day before the twelfth of the Kalends Arcturus sets and the air is disturbed. 22. On the day before the eleventh of the Kalends the Archer sets and the south wind blows. 23. On the day before the tenth of the Kalends the Twins rise, and the Eagle. 24. On the day before the ninth of the Kalends the Hyades begin to rise, and rain follows accordingly. 25. On the day before the eighth of the Kalends the Kid rises at dawn and the north wind blows. 26.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":90,"ref":"p90","source":"τῇ πρὸ ζʹ καλενδῶν δύεται ὁ ἀρκτοῦρος, καὶ νότος μετὰ βορέου πνεῖ. κζʹ. τῇ πρὸ ςʹ καλενδῶν ἀνίσχει ὁ ἀετός. κηʹ. τῇ πρὸ εʹ καλενδῶν νότος πνεῖ, καὶ ἡ λύρα ἕωθεν ἀνίσχει. κθʹ. τῇ πρὸ δʹ καλενδῶν νότος πολύς. λʹ. τῇ πρὸ γʹ καλενδῶν αἱ πλειάδες ἀνίσχουσι, καὶ βροχὴ μετὰ βροντῶν. λαʹ. τῇ πρὸ αʹ καλενδῶν Ἰουνίων χειμάζει ὁ ἀὴρ καὶ βροντᾷ, περὶ δὲ τὴν ἑσπέραν σφοδρότερον ταράττει. ΙΟΥΝΙΟΣ αʹ. καλένδαις Ἰουνίαις αἱ ὑάδες ὅλαι ἀνίσχουσι καὶ νότος πνεῖ. βʹ. τῇ πρὸ δʹ νωνῶν Ἰουνίων ὁ ἀετὸς ἀνίσχει, ταραχή τε τοῦ ἀέρος, καὶ ζέφυρος πνεῖ. γʹ. τῇ πρὸ γʹ νωνῶν βρονταὶ νότιοι. δʹ. τῇ πρὸ αʹ νωνῶν νότος πνεῖ, καὶ ὡς εἰκὸς βροχαί. εʹ. νώναις Ἰουνίαις ὁ ἀετὸς ἀνίσχει, καὶ ὕει τε ἅμα καὶ νότος πνεῖ. ςʹ. τῇ πρὸ ηʹ εἰδῶν Ἰουνίων ὁ ὦμος τοῦ Ὠρίωνος ἀνίσχει. ζʹ. τῇ πρὸ ζʹ εἰδῶν βορρᾶς πνεῖ καὶ ὕει. ηʹ. τῇ πρὸ ςʹ εἰδῶν ὁ ἀρκτοῦρος ὄρθρου δύεται καὶ ζέφυρος πνεῖ. θʹ. τῇ πρὸ εʹ εἰδῶν ὁ δελφὶν ἄρχεται ἀνίσχειν, ὁ δὲ ἀρκτοῦρος δύεται. ιʹ. τῇ πρὸ δʹ εἰδῶν ὡσαύτως· βορρᾶς δὲ πνεῖ, καὶ ἠρέμα ὕει. ιαʹ. τῇ πρὸ γʹ εἰδῶν βροντώδης ὁ ἀὴρ καὶ ὑετώδης ἐκ τοῦ νότου. ιβʹ. τῇ πρὸ αʹ εἰδῶν ταραχώδης ὁ ἀὴρ μετὰ βροχῆς. ιγʹ. εἰδοῖς Ἰουνίαις ζέφυρος ἢ ἀργέστης πνεύσει· εἰκότως δὲ καὶ βροντήσει. ιδʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιηʹ καλενδῶν Ἰουλίων ὁ δελφὶν ἀνίσχει, καὶ νότος πνεῖ. ιεʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιζʹ καλενδῶν οἱ ὦμοι τοῦ Ὠρίωνος ἀνίσχουσι, καὶ προοίμια καυμάτων. ιςʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιςʹ καλενδῶν ἄστρον κρύφιον καὶ ζέφυρος σὺν τῷ νότῳ. ιζʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιεʹ καλενδῶν ζάλη μετρία τοῦ ἀέρος καὶ πνοὴ τοῦ βορέου. ιηʹ.","english":"On the day before the seventh of the Kalends the Arcturus sets, and the south wind blows together with the north. 27. On the day before the sixth of the Kalends the Eagle rises. 28. On the day before the fifth of the Kalends the south wind blows, and the Lyre rises at dawn. 29. On the day before the fourth of the Kalends much south wind. 30. On the day before the third of the Kalends the Pleiades rise, and rain with thunder. 31. On the day before the first of the Kalends of June the air is stormy and thunders, and toward evening it disturbs more violently. JUNE 1. On the Kalends of June the Hyades rise whole and the south wind blows. 2. On the day before the fourth of the Nones of June the Eagle rises, and there is disturbance of the air, and the west wind blows. 3. On the day before the third of the Nones, southerly thunders. 4. On the day before the first of the Nones the south wind blows, and rains, as is likely. 5. On the Nones of June the Eagle rises, and it rains at the same time and the south wind blows. 6. On the day before the eighth of the Ides of June the shoulder of Orion rises. 7. On the day before the seventh of the Ides the north wind blows and it rains. 8. On the day before the sixth of the Ides the Arcturus sets at dawn and the west wind blows. 9. On the day before the fifth of the Ides the Dolphin begins to rise, and the Arcturus sets. 10. On the day before the fourth of the Ides likewise; and the north wind blows, and it rains gently. 11. On the day before the third of the Ides the air is thundering and rainy from the south. 12. On the day before the first of the Ides the air is turbulent with rain. 13. On the Ides of June the west wind or the Argestes will blow; and reasonably it will also thunder. 14. On the day before the eighteenth of the Kalends of July the Dolphin rises, and the south wind blows. 15. On the day before the seventeenth of the Kalends the shoulders of Orion rise, and preludes of heat. 16. On the day before the sixteenth of the Kalends a hidden star and the west wind together with the south. 17. On the day before the fifteenth of the Kalends a moderate storm of the air and a blast of the north wind. 18.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":91,"ref":"p91","source":"τῇ πρὸ ιδʹ καλενδῶν ζέφυρος μετὰ νότου, καὶ οἱ ὦμοι τοῦ Ὠρίωνος φαίνονται. ιθʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιγʹ καλενδῶν ὁ ἥλιος ἐν καρκίνῳ, καὶ ὁ Ὠρίων ἀνίσχει ἕωθεν. κʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιβʹ καλενδῶν νότος ἅμα καὶ ζέφυρος, καὶ βροντώδης ὑετός. καʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιαʹ καλενδῶν ὁ ὀφιοῦχος ὄρθρου δύεται. κβʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιʹ καλενδῶν νότος ἅμα καὶ βορέας. κγʹ. τῇ πρὸ θʹ καλενδῶν ἐπιτολὴ τοῦ Ὠρίωνος. κδʹ. τῇ πρὸ ηʹ καλενδῶν κρυφίου ἄστρου ἐπιτολὴ καὶ ἐπίτασις καυμάτων. κεʹ. τῇ πρὸ ζʹ καλενδῶν ἡ θερινὴ τροπή, αἰφνίδιός τε ταραχὴ τοῦ ἀέρος. κςʹ. τῇ πρὸ ςʹ καλενδῶν λὶψ ἅμα καὶ\n\nζέφυρος. κζʹ. τῇ πρὸ εʹ καλενδῶν βραχεῖα ἡ νύξ, καὶ ὁ μὲν Ὠρίων ἀνίσχει, νότος δὲ ῥεύσει. κηʹ. τῇ πρὸ δʹ καλενδῶν ἐν μὲν ἑσπέρᾳ βρέχει, ὁ δὲ κύων ἀνίσχειν ἄρχεται. κθʹ. τῇ πρὸ γʹ καλενδῶν ἀνεμομαχία. λʹ. τῇ πρὸ αʹ καλενδῶν ἕωθεν μὲν ὁ κύων ἀνίσχει, ἡ δὲ ζώνη τοῦ Ὠρίωνος ἀναφαίνεται.\n\n65 ΙΟΥΛΙΟΣ αʹ. καλένδαις Ἰουλίαις ταράττεται ὁ ἀὴρ ἐκ τοῦ βορρᾶ. βʹ. τῇ πρὸ ςʹ νωνῶν Ἰουλίων κρύφιον ἄστρον καὶ ζέφυρος ἢ νότος. γʹ. τῇ πρὸ εʹ νωνῶν ταραχαὶ τοῦ ἀέρος ἐκ τοῦ νότου. δʹ. τῇ πρὸ δʹ νωνῶν ὁ Ὠρίων ἀνίσχει καὶ στέφανος δύεται, καὶ ζέφυρος πνεῖ. εʹ. τῇ πρὸ γʹ νωνῶν τὸ μέσον τοῦ καρκίνου ἀνίσχει. ςʹ. τῇ πρὸ αʹ νωνῶν οἱ ἐτησίαι καὶ μετὰ νότον βορρᾶς. ζʹ. νώναις Ἰουλίαις δύεται ὄρθρου ὁ στέφανος, καὶ νότος πνεῖ. ηʹ. τῇ πρὸ ηʹ εἰδῶν Ἰουλίων ὁ Κηφεὺς ἀνίσχει, καὶ τροπὴ τοῦ ἀέρος νοτία. θʹ. τῇ πρὸ ζʹ εἰδῶν ὁ Ὠρίων ὅλος ἀνίσχει καὶ νότος πνεῖ. ιʹ. τῇ πρὸ ςʹ εἰδῶν οἱ πρόδρομοι τῶν ἐτησίων πνέουσιν. ιαʹ. τῇ πρὸ εʹ εἰδῶν βροχὴ μετὰ βροντῶν καὶ βορρᾶς βίαιος. ιβʹ.","english":"On the day before the fourteenth of the Kalends, the west wind together with the south, and the shoulders of Orion appear. 19. On the day before the thirteenth of the Kalends, the sun is in Cancer, and Orion rises at dawn. 20. On the day before the twelfth of the Kalends, the south wind together with the west, and a thundering rain. 21. On the day before the eleventh of the Kalends, the Serpent-bearer sets at dawn. 22. On the day before the tenth of the Kalends, the south wind together with the north. 23. On the day before the ninth of the Kalends, the rising of Orion. 24. On the day before the eighth of the Kalends, the rising of a hidden star and an intensifying of heat. 25. On the day before the seventh of the Kalends, the summer solstice, and a sudden disturbance of the air. 26. On the day before the sixth of the Kalends, the southwest wind together with the west wind. 27. On the day before the fifth of the Kalends, the night is short, and Orion rises, and the south wind will flow. 28. On the day before the fourth of the Kalends, in the evening it rains, and the Dog begins to rise. 29. On the day before the third of the Kalends, a battle of winds. 30. On the day before the first of the Kalends, at dawn the Dog rises, and the belt of Orion becomes visible.\n\n65 JULY 1. On the Kalends of July the air is disturbed from the north. 2. On the day before the sixth of the Nones of July, a hidden star and the west wind or the south. 3. On the day before the fifth of the Nones, disturbances of the air from the south. 4. On the day before the fourth of the Nones, Orion rises and the Crown sets, and the west wind blows. 5. On the day before the third of the Nones, the middle of Cancer rises. 6. On the day before the first of the Nones, the Etesian winds, and after the south the north. 7. On the Nones of July the Crown sets at dawn, and the south wind blows. 8. On the day before the eighth of the Ides of July, Cepheus rises, and a southerly change of the air. 9. On the day before the seventh of the Ides, Orion rises whole and the south wind blows. 10. On the day before the sixth of the Ides, the forerunners of the Etesian winds blow. 11. On the day before the fifth of the Ides, rain with thunder and a violent north wind. 12.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":92,"ref":"p92","source":"τῇ πρὸ δʹ εἰδῶν ὁ Ὠρίων ὅλος ὄρθρου ἀνίσχει, καὶ ἐπιτείνουσιν οἱ λεγόμενοι πρόδρομοι. ιγʹ. τῇ πρὸ γʹ εἰδῶν λὶψ ταραχώδης. ιδʹ. τῇ πρὸ αʹ εἰδῶν ἀνίσχει * καὶ πνεῖ ὁ βορρᾶς. ιεʹ. εἰδοῖς Ἰουλίαις ὁ προκύων ἀνίσχει. ιςʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιζʹ καλενδῶν Αὐγούστων ὁ Ὠρίων ἀνίσχει, καὶ βορρᾶς βίαιος πνεῖ. ιζʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιςʹ καλενδῶν τὸ μεσαίτατον τοῦ θέρους, καὶ ψυχροτέρα ἡ ἡμέρα ἐκ τοῦ βορρᾶ. ιηʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιεʹ καλενδῶν ζέφυρος, ἴσως δὲ καὶ νότος. καὶ ὁ μὲν κύων ὄρθρου ἀνίσχει, οἱ δὲ ἐτησίαι ἐπιτείνουσιν. ιθʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιδʹ καλενδῶν ὁ Ὠρίων ἀνίσχει, καὶ ἀργεστὴς φυσᾷ, καὶ ὅλος ὁ Ὠρίων φαίνεται. κʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιγʹ καλενδῶν ὁ ἥλιος ἐν λέοντι, ἀργεστής τε φυσᾷ, καὶ οἱ πρόδρομοι τῶν ἐτησίων. καʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιβʹ καλενδῶν ἀπὸ ταύτης τῆς ἡμέρας οἱ ἐτησίαι σὺν καὶ τοῖς ἄλλοις ἀνέμοις ἐπὶ τεσσαράκοντα ἡμέρας πνέουσιν. κβʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιαʹ καλενδῶν οἱ πρόδρομοι καταφυσῶσιν. κγʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιʹ καλενδῶν ὅλος ὁ καρκίνος μετὰ τοῦ κυνὸς ἀνίσχει, καὶ ὁ ἀετὸς δύεται. κδʹ. τῇ πρὸ θʹ καλενδῶν ὁ λέων σὺν τῷ ἡλίῳ ἀνίσχει μετὰ τοῦ κυνός, ὁ δὲ καρκίνος λήγει. κεʹ. τῇ πρὸ ηʹ καλενδῶν ὁ ὑδροχόος ἄρχεται δύεσθαι, ὁ δὲ κύων περὶ ἀμφιλύκην ἀνίσχει, καὶ νότος φυσᾷ. κςʹ. τῇ πρὸ ζʹ καλενδῶν ἀχλὺς καυσώδης. ὁ δὲ ἀετὸς δύεται, ὁ δὲ λέων ἀνίσχει, καὶ νότος πνεῖ. κζʹ. τῇ πρὸ ςʹ καλενδῶν καῦμα ἐκ τοῦ κυνός· ἡ δὲ σταφυλὴ ἄρχεται περκάζειν. κηʹ. τῇ πρὸ εʹ καλενδῶν καύσων βαρὺς καὶ οἱ ἐτησίαι σφοδρότεροι. κθʹ. τῇ πρὸ δʹ καλενδῶν ἐν τῷ στήθει τοῦ λέοντος ἄστρον λαμπρὸν ἀνατέλλει, καὶ χλιαρὸς ὥσπερ ὁ βορρᾶς ἐκ τοῦ καύματος. λʹ.","english":"On the fourth day before the Ides, Orion rises whole at dawn, and the so-called forerunners intensify. 13. On the third day before the Ides, a turbulent southwest wind. 14. On the day before the Ides, it rises and the north wind blows. 15. On the Ides of July, the Dog Star rises. 16. On the seventeenth day before the Kalends of August, Orion rises, and a violent north wind blows. 17. On the sixteenth day before the Kalends, the very middle of summer, and the day is colder from the north. 18. On the fifteenth day before the Kalends, the west wind, and perhaps also the south. And the Dog rises at dawn, and the Etesian winds intensify. 19. On the fourteenth day before the Kalends, Orion rises, and the Argestes blows, and Orion is wholly visible. 20. On the thirteenth day before the Kalends, the sun is in Leo, and the Argestes blows, and the forerunners of the Etesian winds. 21. On the twelfth day before the Kalends, from this day the Etesian winds, together with the other winds, blow for forty days. 22. On the eleventh day before the Kalends, the forerunners blow down. 23. On the tenth day before the Kalends, the whole Crab rises together with the Dog, and the Eagle sets. 24. On the ninth day before the Kalends, the Lion rises together with the sun and the Dog, and the Crab comes to an end. 25. On the eighth day before the Kalends, the Water-pourer begins to set, and the Dog rises about twilight, and the south wind blows. 26. On the seventh day before the Kalends, a scorching mist. And the Eagle sets, and the Lion rises, and the south wind blows. 27. On the sixth day before the Kalends, heat from the Dog; and the grape begins to ripen. 28. On the fifth day before the Kalends, heavy burning heat and the Etesian winds more violent. 29. On the fourth day before the Kalends, a bright star rises in the breast of the Lion, and the north wind is lukewarm as if from the heat. 30.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":93,"ref":"p93","source":"τῇ πρὸ γʹ καλενδῶν ἄρχονται ὀπῶραι φαίνεσθαι, ὁ δὲ ἀετὸς ἕωθεν δύεται, καὶ ταραχώδης ὁ ἀήρ. λαʹ. τῇ πρὸ αʹ καλενδῶν Αὐγουστῶν νότος μετὰ λιβὸς πνεῖ. ΑΥΓΟΥΣΤΟΣ αʹ. καλένδαις Αὐγούσταις ὁ ἀετὸς δύεται ὄρθρου· λὶψ πνεύσει, καὶ καῦμα ξηρόν. βʹ. τῇ πρὸ δʹ νωνῶν Αὐγούστων ἔτι δύεται ὁ ἀετός, καὶ ὁ ἀὴρ νότιος. γʹ. τῇ πρὸ γʹ νωνῶν τὸ αὐτὸ σημαίνει. δʹ. τῇ πρὸ αʹ νωνῶν τὸ μέσον τοῦ λέοντος ἀνίσχει, φαίνεται δὲ καὶ τὸ δένδρον. ἐν τῷ διημέρῳ τούτῳ ὁ ἥλιος μίαν μοῖραν κρατεῖ· ὁ νότος δὲ ἀχλυώδης κρατεῖ καὶ πνεῖ. εʹ. νώναις Αὐγούσταις δύεται μὲν ὁ στέφανος, τὸ δὲ μέσον τοῦ λέοντος ἀνίσχει καὶ γέρανοι φαίνονται, καὶ νότος πυκνὸς πνεῖ. ςʹ. τῇ πρὸ ηʹ εἰδῶν Αὐγούστων ἡ λύρα συστέλλεται, καὶ ἐκ τοῦ νότου καύσων. ζʹ. τῇ πρὸ ζʹ εἰδῶν τὸ μέσον τοῦ ὑδροχόου δύεται, καὶ ἐκ τοῦ νότου καῦμα ἀχλυῶδες. ηʹ. τῇ πρὸ ςʹ εἰδῶν ὁ λέων ἀνίσχει, καὶ καῦμα βαρύ. ἐπινεφὴς ὁ ἀήρ, καὶ τὸ μέσον τοῦ ὑδροχόου ἀνίσχει. θʹ. τῇ πρὸ εʹ εἰδῶν ἄστρον κρυπτόν, ἀπαρκτίας πρᾶος καὶ μέτριον καῦμα. ιʹ. τῇ πρὸ δʹ εἰδῶν. ἐν ταύτῃ τῇ ἡμέρᾳ","english":"On the third day before the Kalends, the fruits begin to appear, and the Eagle sets at dawn, and the air is turbulent. 31. On the day before the Kalends of August, the south wind blows together with the southwest. AUGUST 1. On the Kalends of August the Eagle sets at dawn; the southwest wind will blow, and there will be dry heat. 2. On the fourth day before the Nones of August the Eagle still sets, and the air is southerly. 3. On the third day before the Nones it signifies the same. 4. On the day before the Nones the middle of the Lion rises, and the Tree also appears. On this two-day period the sun holds one degree; the south wind prevails, misty, and blows. 5. On the Nones of August the Crown sets, and the middle of the Lion rises, and cranes appear, and a thick south wind blows. 6. On the eighth day before the Ides of August the Lyre contracts, and from the south a scorching heat. 7. On the seventh day before the Ides the middle of the Water-Bearer sets, and from the south a misty heat. 8. On the sixth day before the Ides the Lion rises, and there is heavy heat. The air is cloudy, and the middle of the Water-Bearer rises. 9. On the fifth day before the Ides a hidden star, a gentle north wind and moderate heat. 10. On the fourth day before the Ides. On this day","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":94,"ref":"p94","source":"ἔκλειψις σεληνιακή, καὶ νότου ἅμα καὶ βορέου διαφορὰ καὶ καύματα. ιαʹ. τῇ πρὸ γʹ εἰδῶν δύεται ἡ λύρα ὄρθρου. τὸ φθινόπωρον ἄρχεται, καὶ ἀνεμομαχία. ιβʹ. τῇ πρὸ αʹ εἰδῶν ὡσαύτως. ιγʹ. εἰδοῖς Αὐγούσταις ὁ δελφὶν δύεται σὺν τῷ λαγωῷ. ιδʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιθʹ καλενδῶν Σεπτεμβρίων αὐχμὸς καυσώδης. ιεʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιηʹ καλενδῶν ἄστρον κρυπτόν. ζέφυρος σὺν τῷ νότῳ πνεῖ. ιςʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιζʹ καλενδῶν ὄρθρου ὁ δελφὶν δύεται, καὶ νότος πνεῖ. ιζʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιςʹ καλενδῶν ἀρχὴ φθινοπώρου. ιηʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιεʹ καλενδῶν δύεται ἡ λύρα, καὶ νότος πνεῖ. ιθʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιδʹ καλενδῶν μέτριον τὸ καῦμα, καὶ δύεται ὁ δελφίν. κʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιγʹ καλενδῶν ἡ μὲν λύρα δύεται ὄρθρου, ὁ δὲ ἥλιος ἐν παρθένῳ. νότος ἄνεμος, καὶ βροντώδης ὑετός. καʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιβʹ καλενδῶν ὁ ἥλιος ἐφ' ὅλης παρθένου. κβʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιαʹ καλενδῶν ἀνίσχει ἡ παρθένος. κγʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιʹ καλενδῶν ἀπαρκτίας πνεύσει μέτριος, καὶ ὁλικὴ ἡ παρθένος ἀνίσχει καὶ ἀὴρ καθαρός. κδʹ. τῇ πρὸ θʹ καλενδῶν τὸ μὲν αὐτὸ ζῴδιον, ἄνεμος δὲ βορρᾶς. κεʹ. τῇ πρὸ ηʹ καλενδῶν παύονται οἱ ἐτησίαι, καὶ ψυχρότερος ἄρχεται πνεῖν βορρᾶς. κςʹ. τῇ πρὸ ζʹ καλενδῶν ὁ μὲν δελφὶν ἀνίσχει, νότος δὲ πνεῖ. κζʹ. τῇ πρὸ ςʹ καλενδῶν ὁ τρυγητὴς ἀνίσχει, νότος δὲ πνεῖ καὶ ζέφυρος ἅμα. κηʹ. τῇ πρὸ εʹ καλενδῶν ἡ παρθένος ἄρχεται φαίνεσθαι. κθʹ. τῇ πρὸ δʹ καλενδῶν μέτριος ὁ ζέφυρος. λʹ. τῇ πρὸ γʹ καλενδῶν ὁμοίως, τῆς παρθένου ἀνισχούσης. λαʹ. τῇ πρὸ αʹ καλενδῶν Σεπτεμβρίων ἡ Ἀνδρομέδα ἀνίσχει· εὖρος πνεῖ, καὶ ἐναλλάττονται οἱ ἄνεμοι. ΣΕΠΤΕΜΒΡΙΟΣ αʹ. καλένδαις Σεπτεμβρίαις βροντώδης ὑετός, καὶ ἡ Ἀνδρομέδα ἀνίσχει.","english":"A lunar eclipse, and a difference between the south wind and the north wind at the same time, and heatwaves. 11. On the third day before the Ides, the Lyre sets at dawn. Autumn begins, and there is a battle of winds. 12. On the day before the Ides, likewise. 13. On the Ides of August, the Dolphin sets together with the Hare. 14. On the nineteenth day before the Kalends of September, a scorching drought. 15. On the eighteenth day before the Kalends, a hidden star. The west wind blows together with the south wind. 16. On the seventeenth day before the Kalends, at dawn the Dolphin sets, and the south wind blows. 17. On the sixteenth day before the Kalends, the beginning of autumn. 18. On the fifteenth day before the Kalends, the Lyre sets, and the south wind blows. 19. On the fourteenth day before the Kalends, the heat is moderate, and the Dolphin sets. 20. On the thirteenth day before the Kalends, the Lyre sets at dawn, and the Sun is in the Virgin. A south wind, and a thundering rainstorm. 21. On the twelfth day before the Kalends, the Sun is in the whole of the Virgin. 22. On the eleventh day before the Kalends, the Virgin rises. 23. On the tenth day before the Kalends, a moderate north wind will blow, and the whole of the Virgin rises, and the air is clear. 24. On the ninth day before the Kalends, the same constellation, and a north wind. 25. On the eighth day before the Kalends, the Etesian winds cease, and a colder north wind begins to blow. 26. On the seventh day before the Kalends, the Dolphin rises, and the south wind blows. 27. On the sixth day before the Kalends, the Vintager rises, and the south wind blows together with the west wind. 28. On the fifth day before the Kalends, the Virgin begins to appear. 29. On the fourth day before the Kalends, the west wind is moderate. 30. On the third day before the Kalends, likewise, as the Virgin rises. 31. On the day before the Kalends of September, Andromeda rises; the east wind blows, and the winds change. SEPTEMBER 1. On the Kalends of September, a thundering rainstorm, and Andromeda rises.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":95,"ref":"p95","source":"εὖρος πνεῖ, καὶ ἐναλλάττονται οἱ ἄνεμοι. βʹ. τῇ πρὸ δʹ νωνῶν Σεπτεμβρίων ὁ ἰχθὺς ἀπὸ τοῦ νότου παύεται δύεσθαι. γʹ. τῇ πρὸ γʹ νωνῶν βροντᾷ καὶ ὕει. δʹ. τῇ πρὸ αʹ νωνῶν ἀρκτοῦρος ἀνίσχει σὺν τῷ τρυγητῇ, καὶ τὸν μὲν ὀϊστὸν ἀποκρύπτει. εʹ. νώναις Σεπτεμβρίαις οἶκος Ἑρμοῦ. ζέφυρος δὲ πνεῖ, καὶ ἐκ τῆς τῶν ἀνέμων ἐναλλαγῆς ὑετός. ςʹ. τῇ πρὸ ηʹ εἰδῶν Σεπτεμβρίων ἀνίσχει ὁ ἵππος. ζʹ. τῇ πρὸ ζʹ εἰδῶν ἀνίσχει ἡ αἴξ· ἐν δὲ τῇ ἑσπέρᾳ λὶψ μετὰ ὑετοῦ. ηʹ. τῇ πρὸ ςʹ εἰδῶν ἀναφαίνεται ὁ ἀρκτοῦρος, βορρᾶς δὲ φυσᾷ· ἔσθ' ὅτε καὶ βροντᾷ. θʹ. τῇ πρὸ εʹ εἰδῶν τὸ μέσον τῆς παρθένου ἀνίσχει, ζέφυρος δὲ μετὰ λιβὸς πνεῖ. ιʹ. τῇ πρὸ δʹ εἰδῶν τὰ αὐτὰ σημαίνει. ιαʹ. τῇ πρὸ γʹ εἰδῶν ὡσαύτως. ιβʹ. τῇ πρὸ αʹ εἰδῶν Σεπτεμβρίων ὁ ἀρκτοῦρος ἀνίσχει. ιγʹ. εἰδοῖς Σεπτεμβρίαις ὕει διὰ τῆς ἐπιτολῆς τοῦ ἀρκτούρου. ιδʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιηʹ καλενδῶν Ὀκτωβρίων αἱ πλειάδες ἀνίσχουσι σὺν τῷ ἵππῳ. ιεʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιζʹ καλενδῶν ἡ χελιδὼν οὐδαμοῦ· ἀνίσχει δὲ καὶ ἡ αἴξ, καὶ ὕει. ιςʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιςʹ καλενδῶν τὸ δωδεκατημόριον ἄρχεται τοῦ μετοπώρου. ιζʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιεʹ καλενδῶν ζέφυρος μετὰ λιβὸς καὶ εὖρος πλατύς. ιηʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιδʹ καλενδῶν ὁ στάχυς ἀνίσχει, καὶ ἠρέμα ἀπαρκτίας. ιθʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιγʹ καλενδῶν ὁ ἥλιος ἐν ζυγῷ· ὁ κρατὴρ φαίνεται· νότος πνεῖ. τὸ μέσον τοῦ ἀρκτούρου ὄρθρου φαίνεται. κʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιβʹ καλενδῶν ἐπιτολὴ τοῦ ἀρκτούρου καὶ ὑετὸς πολύς. καʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιαʹ καλενδῶν ἡ μετοπωρινὴ ἰσημερία, καὶ οἱ ἰχθύες δύονται. κβʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιʹ καλενδῶν δύεται ἡ Ἀργώ, καὶ τροπὴ τοῦ ἀέρος ὑετώδης. κγʹ.","english":"The east wind blows, and the winds shift. 2. On the fourth day before the Nones of September, the Fish ceases to set from the south. 3. On the third day before the Nones it thunders and rains. 4. On the day before the Nones, Arcturus rises with the Vintager, and hides the Arrow. 5. On the Nones of September, the house of Hermes. The west wind blows, and from the shifting of the winds, rain. 6. On the eighth day before the Ides of September, the Horse rises. 7. On the seventh day before the Ides, the Goat rises; in the evening, the southwest wind with rain. 8. On the sixth day before the Ides, Arcturus appears, and the north wind blows; sometimes it also thunders. 9. On the fifth day before the Ides, the middle of the Virgin rises, and the west wind blows together with the southwest. 10. On the fourth day before the Ides, it signifies the same things. 11. On the third day before the Ides, likewise. 12. On the day before the Ides of September, Arcturus rises. 13. On the Ides of September, it rains through the rising of Arcturus. 14. On the eighteenth day before the Kalends of October, the Pleiades rise with the Horse. 15. On the seventeenth day before the Kalends, the Swallow is nowhere; the Goat also rises, and it rains. 16. On the sixteenth day before the Kalends, the twelfth-part of autumn begins. 17. On the fifteenth day before the Kalends, the west wind with the southwest, and a broad east wind. 18. On the fourteenth day before the Kalends, the Ear of Grain rises, and gently the north wind. 19. On the thirteenth day before the Kalends, the Sun is in Libra; the Cup appears; the south wind blows. The middle of Arcturus appears at dawn. 20. On the twelfth day before the Kalends, the rising of Arcturus and much rain. 21. On the eleventh day before the Kalends, the autumn equinox, and the Fishes set. 22. On the tenth day before the Kalends, Argo sets, and a rainy change of the air. 23.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":96,"ref":"p96","source":"τῇ πρὸ θʹ καλενδῶν δύονται οἱ ἰχθύες, καὶ ὑετὸς ἐκ τοῦ νότου, καὶ γίνονται βροχαὶ καὶ ταραχαὶ ἀνέμων καὶ θαλάσσης. κδʹ. τῇ πρὸ ηʹ καλενδῶν ἔκλειψις σεληνιακὴ καὶ ἐπιτολὴ τοῦ κενταύρου. κεʹ. τῇ πρὸ ζʹ καλενδῶν συννεφὴς ὁ ἀὴρ καὶ ταραχώδης. κςʹ. τῇ πρὸ ςʹ καλενδῶν οἱ ἔριφοι ἀνίσχουσι, καὶ νότος ψυχρός. κζʹ. τῇ πρὸ εʹ καλενδῶν παύεται ἡ παρθένος ἀνίσχειν, αἱ δὲ πλειάδες ἐν ἑσπέρᾳ φαίνονται, καὶ οἱ ἔριφοι σὺν τῷ ἡλίῳ ἀνίσχουσιν, καὶ γίνονται βροχαὶ καὶ ταραχαὶ ἀνέμων καὶ θαλάσσης. κηʹ. τῇ πρὸ δʹ καλενδῶν ἔτι μᾶλλον ὁ νότος. κθʹ. τῇ πρὸ γʹ καλενδῶν αἱ πλειάδες ὄρθρου φαίνονται, καὶ πνεῖ νότος ὑετώδης. λʹ. τῇ πρὸ αʹ καλενδῶν ἡ αἲξ ἀνίσχει ** μέχρι τῆς ἑσπερινῆς\n\nδύσεως τῶν πλειάδων.\n\n68 ΟΚΤΩΒΡΙΟΣ αʹ. καλένδαις Ὀκτωβρίαις αἱ πλειάδες ἀπὸ τῆς ἀνατολῆς ἄρχονται φαίνεσθαι, καὶ νότος ὄρθρου πνεῖ. βʹ. τῇ πρὸ ςʹ νωνῶν Ὀκτωβρίων ὡσαύτως ὅ τε ἀὴρ αἵ τε πλειάδες. γʹ. τῇ πρὸ εʹ νωνῶν ὁ ἡνίοχος δύεται, καὶ ἀπὸ βορέου βροντᾷ. δʹ. τῇ πρὸ δʹ νωνῶν οἱ ἔριφοι ἀνίσχουσι καὶ ὕει. εʹ. τῇ πρὸ γʹ νωνῶν ὁ στέφανος ἀνίσχει καὶ τροπὴ βορεινή. ςʹ. τῇ πρὸ αʹ νωνῶν τὸ μέσον τοῦ κριοῦ δύεται, καὶ ὁ σκορπίος σὺν αὐτῷ. ζʹ. νώναις Ὀκτωβρίαις ὡσαύτως. ηʹ. τῇ πρὸ ηʹ εἰδῶν Ὀκτωβρίων ὁ στέφανος σὺν τοῖς ἐρίφοις ἀνίσχων τρέπει τὸν ἀέρα. θʹ. τῇ πρὸ ζʹ εἰδῶν οἱ ἔριφοι σὺν ταῖς πλειάσιν ἀνίσχουσι, καὶ πνεῖ ἄνεμος λίψ. ιʹ. τῇ πρὸ ςʹ εἰδῶν ὁ ζυγὸς ἄρχεται ἀνίσχειν, καὶ ζέφυρος πνεῖ. ιαʹ. τῇ πρὸ εʹ εἰδῶν ὁ στέφανος ὄρθρου ἀνίσχων ἐναλλάττει τοὺς ἀνέμους. ιβʹ. τῇ πρὸ δʹ εἰδῶν αἱ πλειάδες ἀνίσχουσι, καὶ νότος πνεῖ. ιγʹ.","english":"On the ninth day before the Kalends the Fish set, and rain from the south, and there are showers and disturbances of winds and sea. 24. On the eighth day before the Kalends, a lunar eclipse and the rising of the Centaur. 25. On the seventh day before the Kalends the air is cloudy and turbulent. 26. On the sixth day before the Kalends the Kids rise, and a cold south wind. 27. On the fifth day before the Kalends the Virgin ceases to rise, and the Pleiades appear in the evening, and the Kids rise with the sun, and there are showers and disturbances of winds and sea. 28. On the fourth day before the Kalends the south wind still more. 29. On the third day before the Kalends the Pleiades appear at dawn, and a rainy south wind blows. 30. On the day before the Kalends the Goat rises ** until the evening setting of the Pleiades.\n\n68 OCTOBER. 1. On the Kalends of October the Pleiades begin to appear from the east, and a south wind blows at dawn. 2. On the sixth day before the Nones of October likewise both the air and the Pleiades. 3. On the fifth day before the Nones the Charioteer sets, and it thunders from the north. 4. On the fourth day before the Nones the Kids rise and it rains. 5. On the third day before the Nones the Crown rises and a northern turning. 6. On the day before the Nones the middle of the Ram sets, and the Scorpion with it. 7. On the Nones of October likewise. 8. On the eighth day before the Ides of October the Crown rising with the Kids changes the air. 9. On the seventh day before the Ides the Kids rise with the Pleiades, and a southwest wind blows. 10. On the sixth day before the Ides the Balance begins to rise, and a west wind blows. 11. On the fifth day before the Ides the Crown rising at dawn shifts the winds. 12. On the fourth day before the Ides the Pleiades rise, and a south wind blows. 13.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":97,"ref":"p97","source":"τῇ πρὸ γʹ εἰδῶν ὁ στέφανος ἀνίσχων ἐναλλάττει τοὺς ἀνέμους, καὶ θαλάσσης ταραχὴ γίνεται. ιδʹ. τῇ πρὸ αʹ εἰδῶν βορρᾶς πλατὺς πνεῖ. ιεʹ. εἰδοῖς Ὀκτωβρίαις τὸ μέσον τοῦ φθινοπώρου καὶ ἄνεμος νότος. ιςʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιζʹ καλενδῶν Νοεμβρίων ὁ Ὠρίων ἀνίσχει, καὶ δροσώδης ὁ ἀήρ. ιζʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιςʹ καλενδῶν ὡσαύτως. ιηʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιεʹ καλενδῶν ἡ πᾶσα ἡμέρα συννεφής. ιθʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιδʹ καλενδῶν ὁ ἥλιος ἐν σκορπίῳ, καὶ ζέφυρος πνεῖ. κʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιγʹ καλενδῶν δύονται αἱ πλειάδες, καὶ τροπὴ τοῦ ἀέρος. καʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιβʹ καλενδῶν ὡσαύτως· ἀλλὰ καὶ ὕει. κβʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιαʹ καλενδῶν δύεται ἡ οὐρὰ τοῦ ταύρου, καὶ νότος πνεῖ ὑετώδης. κγʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιʹ καλενδῶν δύεται ὁ σκορπίος, καὶ βορρᾶς πνεῖ καὶ χειμὼν κατὰ θάλασσαν. κδʹ. τῇ πρὸ θʹ καλενδῶν δύονται αἱ πλειάδες. κεʹ. τῇ πρὸ ηʹ καλενδῶν ὁ κένταυρος ὄρθρου δύεται. κςʹ. τῇ πρὸ ζʹ καλενδῶν τὸ μέτωπον τοῦ σκορπίου δύεται. κζʹ. τῇ πρὸ ςʹ καλενδῶν αἱ ὑάδες δύονται, καὶ βορρᾶς ψυχρὸς καὶ χειμὼν κατὰ θάλασσαν. κηʹ. τῇ πρὸ εʹ καλενδῶν αἱ πλειάδες καὶ ὁ Ὠρίων παντελῶς δύονται. κθʹ. τῇ πρὸ δʹ καλενδῶν ὁ ἀρκτοῦρος δύεται, καὶ οἱ ἄνεμοι βιαιότεροι. λʹ. τῇ πρὸ γʹ καλενδῶν ἡ Κασσιόπεια ἄρχεται δύεσθαι. λαʹ. τῇ πρὸ αʹ καλενδῶν ὁ Ὠρίων ὅλος ἀποκρύπτεται, καὶ ὁ μὲν ἀετὸς ἐν ἑσπέρᾳ, ἡ δὲ λύρα ὄρθρου ἀνίσχει.","english":"On the third day before the Ides the Crown rising changes the winds, and there is a disturbance of the sea. 14. On the day before the Ides a broad north wind blows. 15. On the Ides of October the middle of autumn and a south wind. 16. On the seventeenth day before the Kalends of November Orion rises, and the air is dewy. 17. On the sixteenth day before the Kalends likewise. 18. On the fifteenth day before the Kalends the whole day is cloudy. 19. On the fourteenth day before the Kalends the sun is in Scorpio, and a west wind blows. 20. On the thirteenth day before the Kalends the Pleiades set, and a change of the air. 21. On the twelfth day before the Kalends likewise; but it also rains. 22. On the eleventh day before the Kalends the tail of the Bull sets, and a rainy south wind blows. 23. On the tenth day before the Kalends Scorpio sets, and a north wind blows and a storm at sea. 24. On the ninth day before the Kalends the Pleiades set. 25. On the eighth day before the Kalends the Centaur sets at dawn. 26. On the seventh day before the Kalends the forehead of Scorpio sets. 27. On the sixth day before the Kalends the Hyades set, and a cold north wind and a storm at sea. 28. On the fifth day before the Kalends the Pleiades and Orion set completely. 29. On the fourth day before the Kalends Arcturus sets, and the winds are more violent. 30. On the third day before the Kalends Cassiopeia begins to set. 31. On the day before the Kalends Orion is wholly hidden, and the Eagle is in the evening, while the Lyre rises at dawn.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":98,"ref":"p98","source":"69 ΝΟΕΜΒΡΙΟΣ αʹ. καλένδαις Νοεμβρίαις αἱ πλειάδες δύονται. ἕωθεν πάχνη, καὶ τοῦ ἀρκτούρου δυομένου τροπὴ τοῦ ἀέρος ἐπὶ τὸ ψυχρότερον. βʹ. τῇ πρὸ δʹ νωνῶν Νοεμβρίων ἄνεμοι ψυχροὶ καὶ βροχαί. γʹ. τῇ πρὸ γʹ νωνῶν ἡ λύρα ὄρθρου ἀνίσχει, καὶ πρῶτα βορρᾶς, εἶτα καὶ νότος. δʹ. τῇ πρὸ αʹ νωνῶν νότος σὺν τῷ ζεφύρῳ καὶ ὑετός. εʹ. νώναις Νοεμβρίαις ἡ λύρα ἀνίσχοντος ἡλίου φαίνεται, καὶ ἄνεμος βορέας. ςʹ. τῇ πρὸ ηʹ εἰδῶν Νοεμβρίων ὄρθρου ὁ ἀρκτοῦρος δύεται, καὶ συννέφεια. ζʹ. τῇ πρὸ ζʹ εἰδῶν αἱ πλειάδες καὶ ὁ Ὠρίων δύονται, καὶ πνεῖ ὁ βορρᾶς. ηʹ. τῇ πρὸ ςʹ εἰδῶν στυγνὸς ὁ ἀήρ. θʹ. τῇ πρὸ εʹ εἰδῶν λαμπρὸν ἄστρον τοῦ σκορπίου, καὶ χειμερινὴ τροπή. ιʹ. τῇ πρὸ δʹ εἰδῶν ἄρχεται ὁ χειμών. ιαʹ. τῇ πρὸ γʹ εἰδῶν αἱ πλειάδες ὑποκρύπτονται. ιβʹ. τῇ πρὸ αʹ εἰδῶν τοῦ σκορπίου τὸ μέσον ἄστρον ἀνίσχει. ιγʹ. εἰδοῖς Νοεμβρίαις αἱ πλειάδες καὶ ὁ Ὠρίων ὄρθρου δύονται. ιδʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιηʹ καλενδῶν Δεκεμβρίων ὄρθρου ὁ σκορπίος δύεται. ιεʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιζʹ καλενδῶν ἡ λύρα ἀνίσχει ἕωθεν, εὖρός τε πνεῖ ἅμα καὶ νότος σὺν τῷ βορρᾷ. ιςʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιςʹ καλενδῶν τὸ αὐτό. ιζʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιεʹ καλενδῶν χειμάζει, καὶ νότος ἕπεται. ιηʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιδʹ καλενδῶν ὁ ἥλιος ἐν τοξότῃ. καὶ ὁ Ὠρίων ἀνίσχει σὺν τῇ λύρᾳ, καὶ ταραχὴ τοῦ ἀέρος. ιθʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιγʹ καλενδῶν τὸ κέρας τοῦ ταύρου σὺν τῷ ἡλίῳ δύεται, καὶ πνεῖ","english":"69 NOVEMBER 1. On the Kalends of November the Pleiades set. At dawn, frost, and as Arcturus sets, a change of the air toward colder. 2. On the fourth day before the Nones of November, cold winds and rains. 3. On the third day before the Nones, the Lyre rises at dawn, and first a north wind, then also a south wind. 4. On the day before the Nones, a south wind together with the west wind and rain. 5. On the Nones of November, the Lyre is visible at sunrise, and a north wind. 6. On the eighth day before the Ides of November, at dawn Arcturus sets, and cloudiness. 7. On the seventh day before the Ides, the Pleiades and Orion set, and the north wind blows. 8. On the sixth day before the Ides, the air is gloomy. 9. On the fifth day before the Ides, the bright star of the Scorpion, and the winter solstice. 10. On the fourth day before the Ides, winter begins. 11. On the third day before the Ides, the Pleiades are hidden. 12. On the day before the Ides, the middle star of the Scorpion rises. 13. On the Ides of November, the Pleiades and Orion set at dawn. 14. On the eighteenth day before the Kalends of December, at dawn the Scorpion sets. 15. On the seventeenth day before the Kalends, the Lyre rises at dawn, and a southeast wind blows together with a south wind and a north wind. 16. On the sixteenth day before the Kalends, the same. 17. On the fifteenth day before the Kalends, it is stormy, and a south wind follows. 18. On the fourteenth day before the Kalends, the sun is in the Archer, and Orion rises together with the Lyre, and a disturbance of the air. 19. On the thirteenth day before the Kalends, the horn of the Bull sets together with the sun, and blows","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":99,"ref":"p99","source":"βορρᾶς. κʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιβʹ καλενδῶν ἀηδὴς χειμών. καʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιαʹ καλενδῶν αἱ ὑάδες σὺν τῷ λαγωῷ ὄρθρου δύονται. κβʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιʹ καλενδῶν ὑετὸς ψυχρός. κγʹ. τῇ πρὸ θʹ καλενδῶν ὁ Ὠρίων καὶ τὰ κέρατα τοῦ ταύρου δύονται. κδʹ. τῇ πρὸ ηʹ καλενδῶν προοίμια τῆς χειμερινῆς τροπῆς. δύεται ὁ κύων, καὶ δρόσος φέρεται ψυχρά. κεʹ. τῇ πρὸ ζʹ καλενδῶν ὁ ἥλιος ἐπὶ τῆς πρώτης μοίρας τοῦ τοξότου. κςʹ. τῇ πρὸ ςʹ καλενδῶν ὡσαύτως. κζʹ. τῇ πρὸ εʹ καλενδῶν δύεται ὁ κύων, καὶ βροχὴ ἔσται νοτία. κηʹ. τῇ πρὸ δʹ καλενδῶν ἄρχεται ὁ κύων δύεσθαι, καὶ νεφώδης ὁ ἀήρ. κθʹ. τῇ πρὸ γʹ καλενδῶν ὄρθρου δύεται ὁ κύων, καὶ ἐκ τοῦ λιβὸς ὕει. λʹ. τῇ πρὸ αʹ καλενδῶν δύεται ὁ Ὠρίων, καὶ ζέφυρος καὶ μετὰ νότου βροχή.\n\n70 ΔΕΚΕΜΒΡΙΟΣ αʹ. καλένδαις Δεκεμβρίαις σύγχυσις τοῦ ἀέρος· ἀπαρκτίας φυσᾷ, καὶ ὁ Ὠρίων ὅλος ὄρθρου δύεται. βʹ. τῇ πρὸ δʹ νωνῶν Δεκεμβρίων ὁ κύων δύεται· ἐν ἑσπέρᾳ ἀπαρκτίας ἐπιτείνει. γʹ. τῇ πρὸ γʹ νωνῶν χειμάζει σὺν ὑετῷ. δʹ. τῇ πρὸ αʹ νωνῶν δύεται ὁ τοξότης καὶ βορρᾶς πνεῖ. εʹ. νώναις Δεκεμβρίαις δι' ὅλης τῆς ἡμέρας βροχὴ καὶ πολὺς βορρᾶς. ςʹ. τῇ πρὸ ηʹ εἰδῶν Δεκεμβρίων τὸ μέσον τοῦ τοξότου ἀνίσχει. ζʹ. τῇ πρὸ ζʹ εἰδῶν ἀνίσχει ὁ ἀετός, καὶ πνεῖ ὁ λίψ. ηʹ. τῇ πρὸ ςʹ εἰδῶν ὁ σκορπίος ὅλος ἀνίσχει. θʹ. τῇ πρὸ εʹ εἰδῶν ὁ κύων ἐν ἑσπέρᾳ ἀνίσχει, καὶ ὁ νότος πνεῖ. ιʹ. τῇ πρὸ δʹ εἰδῶν βορέας συχνός, καὶ ὁ οὐρανὸς μέλας ἐκ τοῦ χειμῶνος. ιαʹ. τῇ πρὸ γʹ εἰδῶν κρύφιον ἄστρον· ἀπαρκτίας ἅμα καὶ καικίας. ιβʹ. τῇ πρὸ αʹ εἰδῶν βορρᾶς πρῶτα, ἔπειτα δὲ νότος βαρύς. ιγʹ. εἰδοῖς Δεκεμβρίαις ὅλος ὁ σκορπίος ἀνίσχει·","english":"North wind. 20. On the twelfth day before the Kalends of November, foul winter weather. 21. On the eleventh day before the Kalends, the Hyades set with the Hare at dawn. 22. On the tenth day before the Kalends, cold rain. 23. On the ninth day before the Kalends, Orion and the horns of the Bull set. 24. On the eighth day before the Kalends, preludes of the winter solstice. The Dog sets, and cold dew is brought. 25. On the seventh day before the Kalends, the Sun is in the first degree of the Archer. 26. On the sixth day before the Kalends, likewise. 27. On the fifth day before the Kalends, the Dog sets, and there will be southern rain. 28. On the fourth day before the Kalends, the Dog begins to set, and the air is cloudy. 29. On the third day before the Kalends, the Dog sets at dawn, and it rains from the southwest. 30. On the day before the Kalends, Orion sets, and a west wind, and after it a south wind with rain.\n\n70 DECEMBER 1. On the Kalends of December, disturbance of the air; the north wind blows, and Orion sets wholly at dawn. 2. On the fourth day before the Nones of December, the Dog sets; in the evening the north wind intensifies. 3. On the third day before the Nones, stormy weather with rain. 4. On the day before the Nones, the Archer sets and the north wind blows. 5. On the Nones of December, through the whole day rain and a strong north wind. 6. On the eighth day before the Ides of December, the middle of the Archer rises. 7. On the seventh day before the Ides, the Eagle rises, and the southwest wind blows. 8. On the sixth day before the Ides, the whole Scorpion rises. 9. On the fifth day before the Ides, the Dog rises in the evening, and the south wind blows. 10. On the fourth day before the Ides, frequent north wind, and the sky is black from the storm. 11. On the third day before the Ides, a hidden star; the north wind together with the northeast wind. 12. On the day before the Ides, north wind first, then a heavy south wind. 13. On the Ides of December, the whole Scorpion rises;","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":100,"ref":"p100","source":"βορρᾶς δὲ καὶ νότος ὑετὸν ἐπισπώμενοι. ιδʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιθʹ καλενδῶν Ἰανουαρίων δύεται ἡ αἴξ. ιεʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιηʹ καλενδῶν νότος ἅμα καὶ βορρᾶς, καὶ σύγχυσις τοῦ ἀέρος. ιςʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιζʹ καλενδῶν ὡσαύτως. ιζʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιςʹ καλενδῶν ὁ ἥλιος ἐπὶ τοῦ αἰγοκέρωτος. ιηʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιεʹ καλενδῶν ἄστρον κρυπτὸν καὶ ἀνεμομαχία. ιθʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιδʹ καλενδῶν ἡ αἲξ ἀνίσχει. κʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιγʹ καλενδῶν ὁ ἀετὸς ἀνίσχει καὶ ὁ αἰγόκερως. καʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιβʹ καλενδῶν βορέας μὲν κατάρχεται, νότος δὲ τὴν πᾶσαν ἡμέραν ἐπικρατεῖ. κβʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιαʹ καλενδῶν ὁ ἀετὸς ἐν ἑσπέρᾳ ἀνίσχει. κγʹ. τῇ πρὸ ιʹ καλενδῶν ὄρθρου ἡ αἲξ δύεται· καὶ συμπληροῦται ἡ βροῦμα, οἱονεὶ ἡ χειμερινὴ τροπή. κδʹ. τῇ πρὸ θʹ καλενδῶν χειμέριος ὁ ἀήρ. κεʹ. τῇ πρὸ ηʹ καλενδῶν ὄρθρου ἡ αἲξ δύεται. κςʹ. τῇ πρὸ ζʹ καλενδῶν δύεται ἐν ἑσπέρᾳ ἡ αἴξ, καὶ χειμάζει. κζʹ. τῇ πρὸ ςʹ καλενδῶν ὁ δελφὶν ἕωθεν ἀνίσχει, ἔχων τὸν ἀέρα. κηʹ. τῇ πρὸ εʹ καλενδῶν ὁ ἥλιος ἀποστρέφεται ἀπὸ τοῦ νοτιαίου καμπτῆρος. κθʹ. τῇ πρὸ δʹ καλενδῶν ὁ ἥλιος λαμπρός, ὁ δὲ ἀετὸς δύεται, καὶ ὕει. λʹ. τῇ πρὸ γʹ καλενδῶν ὁ μὲν δελφὶν ἀνίσχει, ὁ δὲ κύων δύεται. λαʹ. τῇ πρὸ αʹ καλενδῶν Ἰανουαρίων κρυφία ταραχὴ καὶ ἀνεμώδης. ἄρχεται ἀνίσχειν ὁ δελφίν, καὶ ὁ ἥλιος εἰς ὕψος. Καὶ ταῦτα μὲν ὁ Κλώδιος ἐκ τῶν παρὰ Θούσκοις ἱερῶν πρὸς λέξιν· καὶ οὐκ αὐτὸς μόνος, ἀλλὰ μὴν καὶ Εὔδοξός τε ὁ πολύς, Δημόκριτος πρῶτος αὐτῶν, Βάρρων τε ὁ Ῥωμαῖος, Ἵππαρχος, Μητρόδωρος, καὶ μετ' αὐτοὺς ὁ Καῖσαρ περὶ τῆς ἐφημέρου τῶν φαινομένων ἐπιτολῆς τε καὶ δύσεως.","english":"North and south winds drawing on rain. 14. On the nineteenth day before the Kalends of January, the Goat sets. 15. On the eighteenth day before the Kalends, south and north wind together, and confusion of the air. 16. On the seventeenth day before the Kalends, likewise. 17. On the sixteenth day before the Kalends, the Sun in Capricorn. 18. On the fifteenth day before the Kalends, a hidden star and a battle of winds. 19. On the fourteenth day before the Kalends, the Goat rises. 20. On the thirteenth day before the Kalends, the Eagle rises and Capricorn. 21. On the twelfth day before the Kalends, the north wind begins, but the south wind prevails the whole day. 22. On the eleventh day before the Kalends, the Eagle rises in the evening. 23. On the tenth day before the Kalends, at dawn the Goat sets; and the bruma is completed, that is, the winter solstice. 24. On the ninth day before the Kalends, the air is wintry. 25. On the eighth day before the Kalends, at dawn the Goat sets. 26. On the seventh day before the Kalends, the Goat sets in the evening, and it is stormy. 27. On the sixth day before the Kalends, the Dolphin rises at dawn, bringing the air. 28. On the fifth day before the Kalends, the Sun turns back from the southern bend. 29. On the fourth day before the Kalends, the Sun is bright, and the Eagle sets, and it rains. 30. On the third day before the Kalends, the Dolphin rises, and the Dog sets. 31. On the day before the Kalends of January, a hidden disturbance and windy. The Dolphin begins to rise, and the Sun to its height. And these things Clodius [gives] from the sacred rites among the Tuscans, word for word; and not he alone, but indeed also Eudoxus the great, Democritus first of them, Varro the Roman, Hipparchus, Metrodorus, and after them Caesar, concerning the daily rising and setting of the appearances.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":101,"ref":"p101","source":"Ἐπειδὴ δέ τινες ἀπαιδεύτως φερόμενοι φάσκουσι μὴ ἐπὶ παντὸς τόπου τὰ αὐτὰ πρὸς τῶν ἐπιτολῶν ἢ δύσεων τῶν ἄστρων ἐνεργεῖσθαι, φέρε τῆς πλάνης αὐτοὺς καίπερ ἀντιμαχομένους ἀπαλλάξωμεν. καὶ τάχα διὰ βραχέων τοῦτο παρασχεῖν αὐτοῖς δυνατόν. τῶν τοίνυν ζῳδίων ὑφ' ἓν μὲν τὸν ὅλον τῶν πλανωμένων οὐρανὸν διειληφότων, οὐκ\n\nἐξ ὅλου δὲ τὰ αὐτὰ ἀλλήλοις ἐπὶ γῆν ἐνεργούντων, ἐπιτηρεῖν δεῖ ποῖά τινα τῶν ἐπὶ γῆς κλιμάτων ὑπὸ ποίῳ ζῳδίῳ τέτακται τελεῖν· οὕτω γὰρ ἂν τἀληθὲς τοὺς μὴ πρὸς ἀπέχθειαν ζητοῦντας οὐ φεύξεται. κριῷ Βρεταννία, Γαλατία, Γερμανία, Βαστάρναι, Κοίλη Συρία, Ἰδουμαία. ταύρῳ Κυκλάδες, τῆς μικρᾶς Ἀσίας τὰ παράλια, Κύπρος, Πάρθοι, Μῆδοι, Περσίς. διδύμοις Ὑρκανία, Ἀρμενίαι δύο, Ματιανή, Κυρηναική, Μαρμαρική, Αἴγυπτος ἡ κάτω. καρκίνῳ Βιθυνία, Φρυγίαι δύο, Κολχική, Νουμιδία, Καρχηδών, Ἀφρική. λέοντι Ἰταλία, Ἀπουλία, Γαλλία, Σικελία, Φοινίκη, Ὀρχηνία ἤτοι Ἀντορχηνία. παρθένῳ Ἑλλάς, Ἀχαΐα, Κρήτη, Βαβυλών, Μεσοποταμία, Ἀσσυρία. σκορπίῳ Συρία ἡ μέση ἢ Κομμαγηνή, Καππαδοκία, Μαυριτανία, Γαιτουλία. ζυγῷ Βακτρία, Κασπειρία, Σηρική, Θηβαίς, Ὀάσεις, Τρωγλοδυτική. τοξότῃ Τυρσηνία καὶ Κελτική, Σπανία, Ἀραβία εὐδαίμων ἡ μεγάλη. αἰγοκέρωτι Μακεδονία, Θρᾴκη, Ἰλλυρίς, Ἰνδική, Ἀριανή, Γεδρωσία. ὑδροχόῳ Σαυρομάται, Ὀξιανή, Σογδιανή, Ἀραβία ἡ μικρά, Ἀζανία μέση, Αἰθιοπία. ἰχθύσι Λυδία, Κιλικία, Παμφυλία, Φαζανία, Νασαμῶνες, Γαραμαντική.","english":"Since some people, carried away by ignorance, assert that the same effects are not produced by the risings or settings of the stars in every place, come, let us rid them of their error, even though they fight against it. And perhaps it is possible to furnish this to them briefly. Since, then, the signs of the zodiac have divided the whole heaven of the wandering stars under one [scheme], but do not wholly produce the same effects upon the earth for one another, one must observe what sort of regions upon the earth are appointed to be completed under what sign; for thus the truth will not escape those who seek it without prejudice. To the Ram: Britain, Gaul, Germany, the Bastarnae, Coele Syria, Idumaea. To the Bull: the Cyclades, the coastlands of Asia Minor, Cyprus, the Parthians, the Medes, Persia. To the Twins: Hyrcania, the two Armenias, Matiane, Cyrenaica, Marmarica, Lower Egypt. To the Crab: Bithynia, the two Phrygias, Colchis, Numidia, Carthage, Africa. To the Lion: Italy, Apulia, Gaul, Sicily, Phoenicia, Orchenia, that is, Antorchenia. To the Virgin: Hellas, Achaea, Crete, Babylon, Mesopotamia, Assyria. To the Scorpion: Middle Syria, that is, Commagene, Cappadocia, Mauretania, Gaetulia. To the Balance: Bactria, Caspiria, Serica, the Thebaid, the Oases, Troglodytica. To the Archer: Tyrrhenia and Celtic [land], Spain, Arabia Felix the Great. To the Goat-horned [Capricorn]: Macedonia, Thrace, Illyria, India, Ariana, Gedrosia. To the Water-pourer: the Sauromatae, Oxiana, Sogdiana, Little Arabia, Middle Azania, Ethiopia. To the Fishes: Lydia, Cilicia, Pamphylia, Phazania, the Nasamones, Garamantica.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]}]}