Fifty days after the solstice [1334], when the season of wearisome heat is come to an end, is the right time for me to go sailing.
In summer's still solstice my steps are drawn To the shade of the forest trees; To revel with Pan in his secret haunts, To pipe mazourkas while satyrs dance, Or lull to soft slumber some favorite faun And fascinate strange wild birds and bees.
Beside the base that solstice day A city chap who chanced to stray Was shooting somewhat, too; Who, when the nugget sped that way, His firelock quickly drew.
Adonis were always celebrated in summer at the solstice of June or soon afterwards.
Jastrow, the festival of Tammuz was celebrated just before the summer solstice (The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria, pp.
They solemnized the return of the fiery sun wheel; they traced in those solstice days the operations on earth of Odin and Berchta.
They knew that the time of the Winter solstice is in some strange fashion the high moment of the year, as the beginning of new activity in nature and in the gods.
At Syene in Upper Egypt the sun at the summer solstice was known to pass through the zenith at noon, whereas at Alexandria Eratosthenes estimated its distance as seven degrees from the zenith at the same time.
But there is only one day in which it may be done: the day of full moon after the summer solstice of the year, in which I am fifty.
Every year this Virgin of the Sphere as she appeared above the horizon at the winter solstice gave birth to the sun.
The Roman winter solstice which was connected with the worship of Mithra, and which was named the "Birthday of the Unconquered Om," was adopted by the western churches some time during the fourth century.
The Jews called the day of the Winter Solstice The Fast of Tebet.
In the Coligny calendar the summer solstice seems to be marked by the word trinouxtion affixed to the seventeenth day of the first month (Samonios, nearly equivalent to our June).
There is a sentiment of Cleomedes which seems to imply that the disappearance of the shadows at Syene on the day of the summer solstice was noticed to take place for 300 stadia every way round Syene.
Posidonius adds, that during the summer solstice and whilst the moon was full, he himself passed many days in the temple of Hercules at Gades, but could not observe any thing of these annual irregularities.
That Posidonius himself credited these reports is evident from his own conjecture respecting the decrease and increase [of the sea] from solstice to solstice.
It therefore follows that in the regions alluded to by Hipparchus, the sun at the winter solstice rose no higher than 18 degrees above the horizon.
It is evident that Syene is under the tropic, from the fact that during the summer solstice the gnomon at mid-day casts no shadow there.
For centuries the Chinese have adhered to the first new moon after the winter solsticeas the most favourable date for the ceremony.
The same transference of pre-Christian usages occurred in Italy, where the Christmas festival, first definitely fixed at the time of the winter solstice by Bishop Liberius, A.
A long time after the expedition of the Argonauts, and a year before the Peloponnesian war, Methon observed that the point of the summer solstice passed through the eighth degree of Cancer.
In Chiron's time, the solstice was arrived at the middle of the sign, that is to say to the fifteenth degree.
Planets rush with dizzy sweep through almost limitless courses, yet return to equinox or solstice at the appointed second, their very movement being "the uniform manifestation of the will of God.
It was at the Winter solstice that the ancients wept for Tammuz, the fair Adonis, and other Sun-gods, who were put to death by the boar, slain by the thorn of winter.
The Sun being crucified at the time of the winter solsticewas represented by the young man slaying the Bull (an emblem of the Sun) in the Mithraic ceremonies, and the slain lamb at the foot of the cross in the Christian ceremonies.
The winter solstice reigns, and the Sun seems to stand still in his southern course.
I have, during the summer solstice of 1884, carried out an experimental investigation for the purpose of demonstrating the temperature of the solar surface corresponding with the temperature transmitted to the sun motor.
The result of the experimental investigation carried out during the summer solstice of 1884 may be thus briefly stated.
The principal object of conducting the investigation during the summer solstice has been the facilities afforded for determining atmospheric absorption, the sun's zenith distance at noon being only 17° 12' at New York.
No compensation will, however, be introduced on account of deficient solar heat, the intention being to base the computation of solar temperature solely on the result of observations conducted at New York during the summer solstice of 1884.
The solar character of this deity appears especially in the annual feast of his awakening shortly after the winter solstice (Joseph.
In the matter of breeding, the period of service is from the vernal equinox to the solstice so that the foal may come at a suitable season, for they are supposed to be born on the tenth day of the twelfth month after the mare was stinted.
These are the things to do during the eighth season between the winter solstice and the rising of the west wind.
Thus it is possible to determine the time of the year from the motion of the leaves of certain trees like the olive, the white poplar and the willow, for when the summer solstice has arrived their leaves turn over.
Nothing is more prolific than the pigeon, for in forty days they conceive, lay, hatch and raise a brood, and they keep this up nearly all the year, stopping only from the wintersolstice until spring.
The jennies are bred before the solstice so that they may have their foals at the same season in the following year, for their period of gestation is twelve months.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "solstice" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
