Aratus Solensis, Phaenomena

καὶ μύες ἡμέριοι ποσσὶ στιβάδα στρωφῶντες

And mice by day, tossing their straw bedding with their feet,

κοίτης ἱμείρονται, ὅτʼ ὄμβρου σήματα φαίνοι.

long for their bed, when [the sky] shows signs of rain.

τῶν μηδὲν κατόνοσσο· καλὸν δʼ ἐπὶ σήματι σῆμα

Make light of none of these; it is good, sign upon sign,

σκέπτεσθαι· μᾶλλον δὲ δυοῖν εἰς ταὐτὸν ἰόντων

to look out; and when two point to the same thing, the more

ἐλπωρὴ τελέθοι, τριτάτῳ δέ κε θαρσήσειας.

hope there would be, and with a third you may be confident.

αἰεὶ δʼ ἂν παριόντος ἀριθμοίης ἐνιαυτοῦ

And always, as the year goes by, you should count

σήματα, συμβάλλων εἴ που καὶ ἐπʼ ἀστέρι τοίη

the signs, comparing whether perhaps at a star's

ἠὼς ἀντέλλοντι φαείνεται ἢ κατιόντι,

rising or setting such a dawn shines forth

ὁπποίην καὶ σῆμα λέγοι, μάλα δʼ ἄρκιον εἴη

as the sign too would indicate; and it would be very useful

φράζεσθαι φθίνοντος ἐφισταμένοιό τε μηνὸς

to note, of the waning and the beginning month,

τετράδας ἀμφοτέρας· αἱ γάρ τʼ ἄμυδις συνιόντων

both fourth days; for they, of months meeting together,