The foure bookes of Flauius Vegetius Renatus briefelye contayninge a plaine forme, and perfect knowledge of martiall policye, feates of chiualrie, and vvhatsoeuer pertayneth to warre. Translated out af [sic] lattine, into Englishe, by Iohn Sadler. Anno. 1572. Seene and allovved, accordinge to the order appointed.

¶After what maner the signes and tokens of tempestes maye be obserued. Chap. xl.

MOreouer the rising and going downe of certaine star∣res doth styrre vp & cause most vehement tempestes: in y^• which although certayne dayes be marked by y^• testimony of authors, yet for as much as they be sometimes altered by diuers chaūces, we must confesse & acknowledge that mans nature cannot know perfectlye the condition or state of heauē. The rysing of tēpestes yerely is of thre sorts. For by experience we find y^• ••••pestes do happen either about ••ne certayne daye of the yere prefixed, or before it, or after,

wherevpon the tēpestuous seaso••s that go before y^• day ap∣pointed or middest of winter, we call by y^• name of a Greeke word Procheimasin, those y^• ryse iust at y^e ordinary day we name Epicheimasin: those y^• followe the same we terme Metach••imasin. But to reherse euerye thinge by name, it seemeth both vn∣meete for this place & to long. Seing y^• many wryters haue declared dilligently y^• course & order, not only of monethes, but also of dayes in this case. Also the motions of planettes many times trouble the clerenes of the ayre, when as at cer∣taine dayes appointed by God the creator of the world, they draw neare or depart from some of the xii. signes. Likewise the dayes wherein the Moone chaungeth are commonly ful of tempestes & fearefull to such as vse the sea.