Porter, Jermain G · Boston : Ginn & Company · leaf 134
in front of Bootes, and represented himas a hunter pursuing the Great Bear. The superb lucida of the group, Arcturus, was sodesignated by the Greeks, the name meaning Bear-guard. Smyth derives it from the similar Greek wordfor tail, making it signify ^ tail of the Bear. Althoughthis etymology is… … BOOTES, THE HERDSMAN 83 noted, indicate Ursa Major rather than this star, theconnection between the two names in the Greek lan-guage naturally leading to frequent confusion. Inearly days it represented a spear in the hunters hand,and with the Arabs it was the Lance-bearer, as Emer-son, translating…
Constellations · Mythology
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