Opening Concerning Weather Signs — Theophrastus in Plato Scroll…
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Theophrastus · Arthur F. Hort
The signs of rain wind storm and fair weather we have described so far as was attainable, partly from our own observation, partly from the information of persons of credit. Now those signs which belong to the setting or rising of the heavenly bodies must be learnt from astronomy. Their settings are twofold, since they may be said to have set when they become invisible. And this occurs when the star sets along with the sun, and also when it sets at sunrise. In like manner their risings are twofold: there is the morning rising, when the star rises before the sun, and there is the rising at nightfall, when it rises at sunset. Now what are called the risings of Arcturus occur at both times, his winter rising being at nightfall and his autumn rising at dawn. But the rising of most of the familiar constellations is at dawn, for instance, the Pleiad Orion and the Dog. Of the remaining signs …
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