Environment / Atmospheric Prodigies

114BC

Event #1297: Halo around the sun in the consulships of Gaius Porcius and Manius Acilius

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Citations:

Text #1667

Pliny. Natural History. Series: Natural History. Vol. 1
[Plin. Nat. 2.29. Translated by H. Rackham. Harvard University Press. 1938. (10 Vols.) p. 241]

A bow appeared round the sun in the consulship of Lucius Opimius and Quintus Fabius (121 BC), a hoop in that of Gaius Porcius and Manius Acilius (114 BC), and a red ring in that of Lucius Julius and Publius Rutilius (90 BC).

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