C 759 3 
Et Olenias Sidus pluviale CapelU, 
Taygetenque , Hyadafque 0 culls, Arcionque notavi. 
Met. Lib. III. 5 94. 
1 began to note 
The ftorrriy Hyades , the rainy * Goat-, 
The bright Taygite , and the fhining Bears , 
With all the Sailors Catalogue of Stars. 
1 might infill on the Etymology of Ardhirus , and 
others ; for it appears from the Accounts the Antients 
themfelves give us, there was not always the greateft 
Uniformity in their Drawings. Ovid fays of Bootes , 
■ ■ — -& te tua Plauftra tenebant. 
Lib. 2. 177. 
Nay, and ’tis faid, Bootes , too, that fain 
Thou would’ft have fled, though cumber’d with 
thy Wain. r Addifon . 
And he lets us know, that Scorpio took up 6 o°. 
Eft Locus , ingeminos ubi Brachia c one av at Arcus 
Scorpios; & Cauda, ft exifque utrinque Lac ertis, 
Borngit in Spatium Signonm Membra duomm. 
1 95* 
There is a Place above, where Scorpio , bent 
In Tail, and Aims, furrounds a vaft Extent,- 
In a wide Circuit of the Heav’ns he fhincs, 
And fills the Space of Two celeftial Signs. 
This might be one Reafon of that Compliment 
which Virgil paid Auguftus, apart from the other, 
which Scaliger afligns. 
* Elbow d. 
Anne 
