Note 109 — Chapter XIV · THE SIGNIFICATION OF METEORS
J. M. Ashmand translation
Virgil again:
“Sæpe etiam stellas vento impendente videbis Præcipites cœlo labi.”—&c. Georg. I, l. 365.
A great part of the 1st Georgic consists of astrological rules for predicting the weather, closely resembling the precepts here given by Ptolemy. Virgil is said to have adopted his doctrine from Aratus.