The vernal equinox appears to end on the eighth[482] day before the calends of April. Between the equinox and the morning rising of the Vergiliæ, the calends[483] of April announce, according to Cæsar, [stormy weather].[484] Upon the third[485] before the nones of April, the Vergiliæ set in the evening in Attica, and the day after in Bœotia, but according to Cæsar and the Chaldæans, upon the nones.[486] In Egypt, at this time, Orion and his Sword begin to set. According to Cæsar, the setting of Libra on the sixth before[487] the ides of April announces rain. On the fourteenth before[488] the calends of May, the Suculæ set to the people of Egypt in the evening, a stormy constellation, and significant of tempests both by land and sea. This constellation sets on the sixteenth[489] in Attica, and on the fifteenth, according to Cæsar, announcing four days of bad weather in succession: in Assyria it sets upon the twelfth[490] before the calends of May. This constellation has ordinarily the name of Parilicium, from the circumstance that the eleventh[491] before the calends of May is observed as the natal day of the City of Rome; upon this day, too, fine weather generally returns, and gives us a clear sky for our observations. The Greeks call the Suculæ by the name of “Hyades,”[492] in consequence of the rain and clouds which they bring with them; while our people, misled by the resemblance of the Greek name to another word[493] of theirs, meaning a “pig,” have imagined that the constellation receives its name from that word, and have consequently given it, in their ignorance, the name of “Suculæ,” or the “Little Pigs.” In the calculations made by Cæsar, the eighth[494] before the calends of May is a day remarked, and on the seventh[495] before the calends, the constellation of the Kids rises in Egypt. On the sixth before[496] the calends, the Dog sets in the evening in Bœotia and Attica, and the Lyre rises in the morning. On the fifth[497] before the calends of May, Orion has wholly set to the people of Assyria, and on the fourth[498] before the calends the Dog. On the sixth before[499] the nones of May, the Suculæ rise in the morning, according to the calculation of Cæsar, and on the eighth before[500] the ides, the She-goat, which announces rain. In Egypt the Dog sets in the evening of the same day. Such are pretty nearly the movements of the constellations up to the sixth before[501] the ides of May, the period of the rising of the Vergiliæ.