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Book I Chapter 25 · I.25.9.2–I.25.9.3
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Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 25
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Look toward the sun himself, if his rays allow you (for he offers the best observations), to see whether ⟨either⟩ a blush runs across him, as often he reddens here and there when clouds trail past, or whether he darkens somewhere. Let those dark patches be signs of coming rain, and all the red ones signs of wind. If he is colored with both at once, he may bring rain and stretch out beneath the wind.780
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If, as he rises or just as he sets, his rays meet and cluster around a single spot, or if, hemmed in by clouds, he comes to dawn from night, or passes from dawn into night, those days may run beside descending rain. And when a small cloud rises before him, and after it he lifts himself, with few rays,781
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