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1. Accurate predictions.

2. Equinoxes.

3. He (the sun) also often warns us that dark uprisings threaten, that treachery and hidden wars are swelling to a head (Virgil, Georgics, I.464–5).

4. The story goes that Mother Earth, provoked to anger against the gods, gave birth to her (Fame), as youngest sister to (the giants) Coeus and Enceladus (Aeneid, IV.178–80).

5. Praiseworthy.

6. Once envy has been aroused, good actions are disparaged as much as bad ones (from Histories, I.7).