Porter, Jermain G · Boston : Ginn & Company · leaf 94
ies, were an ancient race inhabitingMount Pelion in Thessaly. Homer called them savagebeasts, but in later times they were represented as halfman and half horse. The Thessalians being famousriders, and hunting the bull on horseback, a nationalsport, we can readily understand how the fable arose.… … CAPRICORNUS, THE GOAT Then grievous blasts Break southward on the sea, when coincide The Goat and sun, and then a heaven-sent cold. Aratus. Capricornus marked in classic times the wintersolstice. It occupied, therefore, the most southern orlowest part of the zodiac. Miltons lines allude to this:…
Constellations · Mythology
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