autoclides

Updated: June 1, 2025

For in fact, this prodigy, as Philochorus observes, was not unlucky for men wishing to fly, but on the contrary very favorable; for things done in fear require to be hidden, and the light is their foe. Nor was it usual to observe signs in the sun or moon more than three days, as Autoclides states in his Commentaries.

Plutarch - Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans