424But if you look to the swift sun and the moons that follow in order, never will tomorrow's hour deceive you, nor will you be caught by the snares of a cloudless night. 427When the Moon first gathers her returning fires, if she encloses dark air within a dim horn, a mighty rain is being prepared for farmers and the sea; 430but if she spreads a maiden blush over her face, there will be wind; 431golden Phoebe always reddens with wind. 432But if at her fourth rising (for that is the surest guide) she goes clear through the sky with horns unblunted, that whole day and those that will be born from it, to the month's end, will be free of rain and winds, and sailors, saved, will pay their vows on the shore to Glaucus and Panopea and Melicertes, son of Ino.
438The Sun too, both rising and when he hides himself in the waves, will give signs; 439the surest signs attend the Sun, both those he brings back at morning and those at the rising of the stars. 441When he has dappled his early rising with spots, hidden in cloud, and shrunk back in the middle of his disc, beware of showers; 443for the South Wind presses from the deep, baleful to trees and crops and flock. 445Or when towards dawn his rays break out scattered among thick clouds, or when Aurora rises pale, leaving the saffron bed of Tithonus, alas, poorly then will the vine-leaf protect the mellowing grapes: so thick the bristling hail leaps rattling on the roofs.
450This also, when he is already departing, having traversed the sky, it will profit you still more to remember; 451for often we see various colours wander over his face: dark blue foretells rain, fiery the East Winds; 454but if spots begin to mingle with the ruddy fire, then you will see everything alike seething with wind and storm clouds. 456On such a night let no one urge me to go over the deep, or to tear my mooring-rope from the land. 458But if, both when he brings back the day and when he hides it once brought back, his disc is bright, you will be alarmed by storm clouds in vain, and will see the woods sway in a clear North Wind.
461In short, what late evening brings, from where the wind drives clear clouds, what the moist South Wind is plotting, the sun will give you signs. 463Who would dare to call the sun false? 464He also often warns that hidden uprisings threaten, and that treachery and secret wars are swelling.