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L. VIVES.
SStella (a) facem ducens] Virg. Aeneid. 2. Anchises beeing vnwilling to leaue Troy, and Aeneas being desperate, and resoluing to dye, Iupiter sent them a token for their flight, namely this tailed starre: all of which nature (saith Aristotle) are produced by vapours enfla∣med in the ayres mid region. If their formes be only lineall, they call them 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, that is, lampes, or torches. Such an one saith Plynie glided amongst the people at noone day, when Germani∣cus Caesar presented his Sword-players prize: others of them are called Bolidae, and such an one was seene at Mutina. The first sort of these flye burning onely at one end, the latter bur∣neth all ouer. Thus Pliny lib. 2.