Orr, M. A. (Mary Acworth) · London, New York [etc.] Longmans, Green and co. · leaf 24
the Pointersto the Cross are Alpha and Beta of the Cen-taur, and mark his forefeet. Another conspicuouspair. Delta and Gamma, are on his horses body,while his mans shoulders are marked by manybright stars, and the head is formed by alittle group. His arm stretches out throughbright Eta to Kappa,… … Th( Old Constellation Figures of the Southern Hemisphere. ANCIENT GROUPS 7 to have been imagined as offering the creaturewhich we now know as the Wolf, though its oldername was simply the Beast. Aratus, a Greekpoet of about 300 B.C., to whom we owe theearliest description extant of the ancient…
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