Bullinger, E. W. (Ethelbert William), 1837-1913 · London : Eyre & Spottiswoode · leaf 299
a, or across Asia Minor, or both, and the Chelaialone remained when the shores of the ^Egean werereached. * This is quite true, for the Greek name for the Signwas Chelai, which means simply the Claws, And thusthe Scorpion monopolised two Signs; its body one,and its claws the other. This led to the… … Fig. 4.—The Constellation of the Claws. Formerly the Circular Altar> now Libra. * Researches on the Euphratean Astronomical Names of the Signs of the Zodiac, p. 17. f In Georgica, i. 33. APPENDIX. 203 Mr. Brown quotes Achilles Tatius, about 475 a.d.,in a Fragment on the Phainomena, who says, rag…
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