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WITH reference to the passage of Tacitus, “Germ.” 45, quoted in NATURE, vol. xxiii. p. 459, I would suggest that the reading equorum, proposed by some commentators, is far happier than deorum. “It is believed that a sound is heard, that the forms of the horses and rays from a head are seen.”
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S., R. Tacitus on the Aurora. Nature 23, 484 (1881). https://doi.org/10.1038/023484e0
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