[661] Medea, ver. 316.
[662] Odyss. v. 295.
[663] Iliad, ix. 5.
[664] Aristot. Meteorol. ii. cap. 5 et 6. On this account, as Salmasius
remarks, the book De Mundo cannot belong to Aristotle, as mention is
made in it of twelve winds.
[665] De Vita et Gestis Caroli Magni. Traj. 1711, 4to, pp. 132, 133.
[666] Adelung’s Wörterbuch, under the word _East_.
[667] Of the writings of this monk, whom I shall again have occasion to
quote, separate editions are scarce. They are however to be found in
Maxima Bibliotheca Patrum, tom. xx.
[668] Speculum Natur. iv. 34, p. 254.
[669] Vitruv. i. 6, p. 41.
[670] See Stuart’s Antiquities of Athens, i. 3, tab. i.--xix.
[671] Varro De Re Rust. iii. 5. 17. Our common weathercocks and vanes,
when well made, and preserved from rust, show the point from which the
wind proceeds, but do not tell their names. By the vanes on church
steeples, one knows that our churches stand in a direction from east
to west, and that the altar is placed in the eastern end. On other
buildings an arrow, which points to the north, is placed under the vane.
[672] Du Cange refers to Anonymus de Arte Architectonica, cap. 2.
[673] Saturn. i. 8, p. 223.
[674] The passage of Nicetas may be found in Fabricii Biblioth. Græca,
vi. p. 407, and in Banduri Imperium Orientale, Par. 1711, fol. tom. i.
lib. vi. p. 108. Nicetas speaks of it again in lib. ii. de Andronico,
Venet. 1729, fol. p. 175. He there says that the emperor was desirous
of placing his image on the _anemodulium_, where the cupids stood.
Another writer, in Banduri Imper. Orient. i. p. iii. lib. i. p. 17,
says expressly that the twelve winds were represented on it, and that
it was erected with much astronomical knowledge by Heliodorus, in the
time of Leo Isauricus.
[675] Plin. Hist. Nat. xxxiv. 7. sect. 18. p. 647.
[676] Geographia Nubiensis. Parisiis, 1619, 4to, p. 118.
[677] In Vita S. Richardi Cicestrensis. See also Du Cange.
[678] In Ughelli Italia Sacra, Romæ, 1652, fol. iv. p. 735, we
find the following inscription on a weathercock then existing at
Brixen:--“Dominus Rampertus Episc. gallum hunc fieri præcepit an. 820.”
[679] Raynerus; cap. 5.
[680] Ambrosius, v. cap. 24.--Vossius de Idol. iii. cap. 86.--Pierii
Valeriani Hieroglyphica. Franc. ad M. 1678, p. 288.
[681] Dictionnaire à Trevoux, 1704, fol. article Girouette.
[682] Hirtius de Bello Alexand. cap. 45.--Tacit. Annal. 22.--Livius,
lib. xxxvii. cap. 24.--Leonis Tactica, cap. 19, § 40, 42, pp. 342, 343,
edit. Meursii. Lugd. Bat. 1612, 4to.
[683] De Milit. Navali. Upsaliæ, 1654.
[684] Pollux, i. 9, § 90, p. 61.
[685] Epist. ad Atticum, v. 12.
[686] The Encomium Emmæ is printed in Du Chesne, Historiæ Normannor.
Scriptor. Paris, 1619, fol.
[687] This honourable memorial of the last half of the eleventh century
is explained and illustrated by a figure in Mémoires de l’Academ. des
Inscript. Paris, 1733, 4to, vol. viii. p. 602.