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Gonna have to dig more on dog days seeing as how every dog has it’s day.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_days

July 3: Dog Days Begin
The phrase “Dog Days” conjures up the hottest, most sultry days of summer. The Old Farmer’s Almanac lists the traditional timing of the Dog Days: the 40 days beginning July 3 and ending August 11, coinciding with the heliacal (at sunrise) rising of the Dog Star, Sirius. The rising of Sirius does not actually affect the weather (some of our hottest and most humid days occur after August 11), but for the ancient Egyptians, Sirius appeared just before the season of the Nile’s flooding, so they used the star as a “watchdog” for that event. Since its rising also coincided with a time of extreme heat, the connection with hot, sultry weather was made for all time: “Dog Days bright and clear / indicate a happy year. / But when accompanied by rain, / for better times our hopes are vain.”

Sirius observes a period of almost exactly 365¼ days between risings, keeping it largely consistent with the Julian but not the Gregorian calendar; nonetheless, its dates occur somewhat later in the year over a span of millennia.

(Consistent with Julian’s calendar?) Julian A.

“..for the ancient Egyptians, Sirius appeared just before the season of the Nile’s flooding..”

(Flood is coming?)

Scrolling, scrolling, scrolling
Anyone know when dogs days are over in 2020? We are past the 11th but it feels certain dog days are still with us!

Cats!

I would go with the end date August 11 for the D.D. in your Wikipedia article.

Deep Dig: Here more information from another article on Sirius and the dog days:

From article about Ancient Greek writer Hesiod’s “Works and Days” (a bit different translation) and the dog days: (Quoted in your Wikipedia linK!)

https://sententiaeantiquae.com/2015/08/25/bad-star-rising-hesiod-on-the-dog-days-of-summer/
Snip....Hesiod writes;

“But when the artichoke flowers, and the chirpy cicada sits in a tree and pours down his shrill song endlessly from under his wings in the season of wearisome heat, then goats are plumpest and wine the best ever; women are sluttiest but that does men no good, greatly weakened as they are in heads and knees from the Dog Star’s searing heat; for good measure their skin is wickedly dry.”

.....Snip: (The author of modern article states:)

“Sirius aka The Dog Star rose in Hesiod’s era on July 17 and had high nuisance value for about a month thereafter. The Romans had a very ancient festival of the augurium canarium in that time frame; it was one of the movable feasts (feriae conceptivae) whose fluctuating date would be fixed yearly depending on the calendar. Canarium in the festival’s name refers to both Sirius, but also the sacrifice of a dog....
snip...”

“Snip..,.Red Dogs [Rutilae canes] that is, dogs not far from the actual color red. According to Ateius Capito they are sacrificed in the “sacrifice of the dog” in order to ward off the Dog Star’s ferocity from the crops.

Although USA people talk of red dogs or red cats, the actual color is more like ginger; in the UK they tend to be called “ginger” rather than “red”.”

My comment:

I think that July 17 / 19 would be consistant with The start Latin Festival and the Old Farmers Almanac, and July 11 the end.

(Hesiod’s earthy comment about “slutty women” was more likely just that ancient greek women naturally wore cooler more revealing clothing in the hottest part of the year which he and the translator interpreted as “Slutty” instead of trying to stay cool!)

Classical allusion...Is some “Dog” about to be sacrified?? Was sacrified? JMC? NoName

Now, I am going to follow the advice of Hesiod and going out to work in the garden and prepare for the autumn rains!