Ille ubi nascentem maculis variaverit ortum
Conditus in nubem, medioque refugerit orbe;
Suspecti tibi sint imbres.
Virg. Georg. i. 441, sqq.
[1658]. Plin. Hist. Nat. xviii. 78. Aratus, Prognost. 137, sqq.
[1659]. Cf. Plin. xviii. 82. “Si nubes ut vellera lanæ spargentur multæ ab oriente, aquam in triduum præsagient;” and Virg. Georg, i. 397:
Tenuia nec lanæ per cœlum vellera ferri.
[1660]. If the Mounts Parnes and Brylessus appeared enveloped in clouds, the circumstance was thought to foretel a tempest. Theoph. de Sign. Pluv. iii. 6. Cf. Strabo. ix. 11. t. ii. p. 253.
[1661]. Pausan. ii. 30. 3. Pind. Nem. v. 10. Dissen.—Müll. Æginetica, § 5. p. 19.
[1662]. Dion. Chrysost. i. 222. Cf. Aristot. Prob. xxvi. 1.