[666] Adelung’s Wörterbuch, under the word East.
[667] Of the writings of this monk, whom I shall again have occasion to quote, separate editions are scarce. They are however to be found in Maxima Bibliotheca Patrum, tom. xx.
[668] Speculum Natur. iv. 34, p. 254.
[669] Vitruv. i. 6, p. 41.
[670] See Stuart’s Antiquities of Athens, i. 3, tab. i.—xix.
[671] Varro De Re Rust. iii. 5. 17. Our common weathercocks and vanes, when well made, and preserved from rust, show the point from which the wind proceeds, but do not tell their names. By the vanes on church steeples, one knows that our churches stand in a direction from east to west, and that the altar is placed in the eastern end. On other buildings an arrow, which points to the north, is placed under the vane.
[672] Du Cange refers to Anonymus de Arte Architectonica, cap. 2.
[673] Saturn. i. 8, p. 223.
[674] The passage of Nicetas may be found in Fabricii Biblioth. Græca, vi. p. 407, and in Banduri Imperium Orientale, Par. 1711, fol. tom. i. lib. vi. p. 108. Nicetas speaks of it again in lib. ii. de Andronico, Venet. 1729, fol. p. 175. He there says that the emperor was desirous of placing his image on the anemodulium, where the cupids stood. Another writer, in Banduri Imper. Orient. i. p. iii. lib. i. p. 17, says expressly that the twelve winds were represented on it, and that it was erected with much astronomical knowledge by Heliodorus, in the time of Leo Isauricus.
[675] Plin. Hist. Nat. xxxiv. 7. sect. 18. p. 647.