"Canicular" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... booke of Aphorismes, the fift, hath these words: Sub canicula, & ante caniculam difficiles sunt purgationes. That is, under the canicular, or dog-star, and before the dog-star, purgations are painfull and difficill. This is all that is there said of them, or brought against them for that season, or time of the yeare. A great stumbling-blocke against which many have dashed their ...
— Spadacrene Anglica - The English Spa Fountain • Edmund Deane |
