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Book I Chapter 26 · I.26.6.2–I.26.6.4
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Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 26
p. 6376 Aratus, lines 783-787
Slender and clear around the third day, she promises fair weather; slender but deeply red, she promises wind. If thicker, with blunted horns, she shows a feeble light from the third day into the fourth, her light is dulled by the south wind or by rain close at hand.823
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If on her third day, at both her horns, she neither nods forward nor shines leaning back, but curves her horns upright on either side, winds from the west may blow after that night. If she brings the fourth day still upright in the same way, she warns that a storm is gathering. If the higher of her horns bends well forward, expect a north wind; if it leans back, a south wind.824
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But when, on her third day, a complete circle surrounds her, red all around, she gives a strong sign of storm; for a greater storm, her crimson would burn more fiercely.825
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