Quarta luna nati

Born in the fourth moon. Persons who were peculiarly unfortunate, scarcely anything succeeding to their minds, were said to be born in the fourth moon, that being the month in which Hercules was born, whose labours, though beneficial to the world, were productive of little advantage to himself. The Spaniards say, En hora mala nace, quien mala fama cobra, he was born under an unlucky planet, or in an evil hour, who gets an ill name. The contrary to this, but equally the child of superstition, is «Albæ gallinæ filius».