On the sixteenth day before[621] the calends of October, the Ear of Corn, which Virgo holds, rises to the people of Egypt in the morning, and by this day the Etesian winds have quite ceased to blow. According to Cæsar, this constellation rises on the fourteenth[622] before the calends, and it affords its prognostics to the Assyrians on the thirteenth. On the eleventh before[623] the calends of October, the point of junction[624] in Pisces disappears, and upon the eighth[625] is the autumnal equinox. It is a remarkable fact, and rarely the case, that Philippus, Callippus, Dositheus, Parmeniscus, Conon,[626] Criton, Democritus, and Eudoxus, all agree that the She-Goat rises in the morning of the fourth before[627] the calends of October, and on the third[628] the Kids. On the sixth day before[629] the nones of October, the Crown rises in the morning to the people of Attica, and upon the morning of the fifth,[630] the Charioteer sets. On the fourth before[631] the nones of October, the Crown, according to Cæsar’s reckoning, begins to rise, and on the evening of the day after is the setting of the constellation of the Kids. On the eighth before[632] the ides of October, according to Cæsar, the bright star rises that shines in the Crown, and on the evening of the sixth before[633] the ides the Vergiliæ, rise. Upon the ides[634] of October, the Crown has wholly risen. On the seventeenth before[635] the calends of November, the Suculæ rise in the evening, and on the day before the calends, according to Cæsar’s reckoning, Arcturus sets, and the Suculæ[636] rise with the sun. In the evening of the fourth day before[637] the nones of November, Arcturus sets. On the fifth before[638] the ides of November, Orion’s Sword begins to set; and on the third[639] before the ides the Vergiliæ set. In this interval of time, the rural operations consist in sowing rape and turnips, upon the days which have been mentioned on a previous occasion.[640] The people in the country are of opinion, that it is not a good plan to sow rape after the departure of the stork; but for my own part, I am of opinion that it should be sown after the Vulcanalia, and the early kind at the same time as panic. After the setting of the Lyre, vetches should be sown, kidney-beans and hay-grass: it is generally recommended that this should be done while the moon is in conjunction. This, too, is the proper time for gathering in the leaves: it is fair work for one woodman, to fill four baskets[641] in the day. If the leaves are gathered while the moon is on the wane, they will not decay; they ought not to be dry, however, when gathered.