[320] “sed assidue rapta (natura) convolvitur, et circa terram immenso rerum causas globo ostendit, subinde per nubes cœlum aliud obtexens.” On the words “immenso globo,” Alexandre has the following comment: “Immensis cœli fornicibus appicta sidera, dum circumvolvitur, terris ostendit;” and on the words “cœlum aliud,” “obductæ scilicet nubes falsum quasi cœlum vero prætexunt.” Lemaire, i. 313.
[321] The author probably means to speak of all the atmospheric phænomena that have been mentioned above.
[322] Marcus has made some remarks on this subject which may be read with advantage; Ajasson, ii. 245-6.
[323] The diminutive of Sus.
[324] Ab ὕω, pluo.
[325] The Hædi were in the constellation Auriga.
[326] We have the same account of the Oryx in Ælian, lib. vii. cap. 8.
[327] Our author again refers to this opinion, viii. 63, and it was generally adopted by the ancients; but it appears to be entirely unfounded.
[328] “cum tempestatibus confici sidus intelligimus.”
[329] “afflantur.” On this term Hardouin remarks, “Siderantur. Sideratio morbi genus est, partem aliquam corporis, ipsumque sæpe totum corpus percutientis subito: quod quum repentino eveniat impetu, e cœlo vi quadam sideris evenire putatur.” Lemaire, i. 317.