Note 119 — THE WORKS AND DAYS.
George Chapman translation
Then varying winds.] Virgil cautions the navigator against the appearances of the sun, Georg. i. 455:
If dusky spots are varied on his brow And streak’d with red a troubled colour show: That sullen mixture shall at once declare Winds, rain, and storms, and elemental war: What desperate madman then would venture o’er The frith, or haul his cables from the shore? Dryden.