The Natural History of Pliny the Elder, Part 2
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The Virgil's Guide to Astronomy
In spring they put in flax, the oat, and the poppy. Some people only regulate their movements by the months. The Virgil we find gives it as his advice that before anything else we should learn the theory of the winds, and the revolutions of the stars. It is an arduous attempt to make an endeavor to introduce the divine science of the heavens to the uninformed mind of the rustic. Still however, with a view to such vast practical results, as must be derived from this kind of knowledge, I shall make the attempt.
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