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The Deipnosophists; or, Banquet of the Learned of Athenæus, Vol. 3 (of 3)

Note 32 — BOOK XIII.

Charles Duke Yonge translation

The Kids was a constellation rising about the beginning of October, and supposed by the ancients to bring storms. Theocritus says—

χὤταν ἐφ' ἑσπερίοις ἐρίφοις νότος ὑγρὰ διώκῃ κύματα.—vii. 53.

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