XIV.
WHY DO THE DORIANS PRAY FOR BAD MAKING OF THEIR HAY?
Is it because hay rained upon is never well made? For the grass is cut down green and not dry, wherefore it putrefies when wet with rain water. But when before harvest it rains upon corn, this is a help to it against the hot south winds; which otherwise would not let the grain fill in the ear, but by their heat would hinder and destroy all coalition, unless by watering the earth there came a moisture to cool and moisten the ear.
Quaestiones Naturales. Plutarch. ed. William W. Goodwin. Boston. 1874.
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