In “Summer” the epithet _gelid_ appears with almost wearisome iteration, with other examples like _flexile_ wave, _the fond sequacious bird_, etc., while the cloud that presages a storm is called “the small prognostic” and trees are “the noble sons of potent heat and floods.” Continuous passages betray similar characteristics: From thee the sapphire, solid ether, takes Its hue cerulean and of evening tinct. (“Summer,” 149 foll.) _Autumn_ furnishes even more surprising instances: the stag “_adhesive_ to the track,” the sands “strowed _bibulous_ above,” “forests huge _incult_,” etc., as well as numerous passages of sustained latinism.[103] In “Winter,” which grew from an original 405 lines in 1726 to 1,069 lines in 1746, latinism of vocabulary is not prominent to the same extent as in the three previous books, but the following is a typical sample: Meantime in sable cincture shadows vast Deep-tinged, and damp and congregated clouds And all the vapoury turbulence of heaven Involves the face of things. (ll. 54 foll.)[104] The revisions after 1730 do not show any great pruning, or less indulgence in these characteristics; rather the contrary, for many of them are additions which did not appear until 1744. Now and then Thomson has changed his terms and epithets. Thus in the lines the potent sun _Melts into_ limpid air the high-raised clouds (“Summer,” 199) the expression “melts into” has replaced the earlier “attenuates to.”[105] One of the best of the emendations, at least as regards the disappearance of a latinism, is seen in “Summer” (48-9), where the second verse of the couplet, The meek-eyed morn appears, mother of dews, At first _faint-gleaming_ in the dappled east has replaced the _Mildly elucent_ in the streaky east of the earlier version. Often Thomson’s latinisms produce no other effect on the reader than that of mere pedantry. Thus in passages such as See, where the winding vale its lavish stores _Irriguous_ spreads. See, how the lily drinks The _latent_ rill. (“Spring,” 494) or the canvas smooth With glowing life _protuberant_. (“Autumn,” 136) or The fallow ground laid open to the sun _Concoctive_. (_Ibid._, 407) or the description of the tempest Struggling through the _dissipated_ grove (“Winter,” 185)[106]