June 26 | Fastorum Liber Sextus: Iunius
A C | VI Kal. | VI.785-790, Ovid notes the sinking of the constellation Orion and the Summer Solstice.
Ecce suburbana rediens male sobrius aede 785
ad stellas aliquis talia verba iacit:
“zona latet tua nunc, et cras fortasse latebit:
dehinc erit, Orion, aspicienda mihi.”
at si non esset potus, dixisset eadem
venturum tempus solstitiale die. 790
785 Lo, returning from the suburban shrine, a maudlin worshipper thus hails the stars: “Orion, thy belt is now invisible, and perhaps it will be invisible to-morrow: after that it will be within my ken.” But if he had not been tipsy, he would have said that the solstice would fall on the same day.1
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True morning rising of middle star was on June 21; apparent, July 13. The summer solstice was on June 24.