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Taygete fimul Os t err is oft end it hone ft urn 
Pleias, & Oceani fpretos pede reppulit Amnes : 
Aut eadem Sidus fugiens, ubi Fiftcis aquoji 
Triftior hybernas Ccelo deftcendit in Undas. 
Georg. Lib. 4. 232. 
Firfl:, when the pleafing Tleiades appear, 
And fpringing upward fpurn the briny Seas : 
Again when their affrighted Choir Purveys 
The watry Scorpion mend his Pace behind, 
With a black Train of Storms, and Winter- wind, 
They plunge into the Deep, and fafe Protection 
find. ‘Dry den* 
Some, I know, by this Sidus underhand the 
Southern Fijh, others the Hydra , and Pome the Sum 
but how Mr. Hryden came to inPert Scorpio , I fhall 
not inquire. Nor fhall I trouble you with any Con- 
jectures with regard to the antient Figures : It is cer- 
tain there have been Variations in this refpeCt, fince 
Ftolemy mentions a Star in the Horn of Aries ; and 
it is thought Hipparchus reckoned one, that is now 
in the Line, to the firft Foot of Aries *. Whether 
the Epithet Ovid gives Capella , does not imply Pome 
little Difference, in the Situation of it, from ours, I 
leave to the Critics. 
Et 
* Since I wrote this, I find Sir Ifaac Newton , in this way, recover 
to their former Places the Stars below, by rectifying the Delineation. 
In the extreme Fluxure of Eridanuty a Star of the Fourth Mag- 
cc ni ude, of late referred to the Bofom of Cetus. 
tC In the Head of Perfeus> a Star of the Fourth Magnitude. 
Cc In the Right Hand of Perfeus, a Star of the Fourth Magnitude. 
ct In the Neck of Hydrus, a Star of the Fourth Magnitude. 
<c In the Left Hand of Cepheus , one of the Fifth Magnitude.” 
All whofe Characters he defigns from Bayer. 
