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Question 7. What sort of clouds are the Ploiades?
Solution. Showering clouds which were carried up and
down were, for the most part, called Ploiades, as Theophrastus
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hath said expressly in his fourth book of Meteors:
‘Whereas indeed the Ploiades are those clouds which
have a consistency and are not so movable, but as to color
white, which discover a kind of different matter, neither
very watery nor very windy.’
Plutarch. Plutarch's Morals. Translated from the Greek by several hands. Corrected and revised by. William W. Goodwin, PH. D. Boston. Little, Brown, and Company. Cambridge. Press Of John Wilson and son. 1874. 2.
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