Porter, Jermain G · Boston : Ginn & Company · leaf 128
nty. The three small stars near Capella are the Kids, thoughmore properly perhaps only the two southern ones shouldbe so denominated. They were in extremely bad reputewdth the ancients, being termed by the classic writers^^ horrid and hurtful, and Callimachus in the thirdcentury B.C. counseled… … AUEIGA, THE CHARIOTEER 79 the probability of pleasant or tempestuous weather,was, of course, at best but local and temporary; forthe slow precession of the equinoxes, by gradually shift-ing the panoramic scenery of the skies, will in thecourse of ages make these same stars rulers overdifferent…
Constellations · Mythology
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