C 7 4* 3 
Me veto primum dulces ante omnia Mufe, 
Quarum facra fero ingenti perculfus Amore, 
Accipiant 5 Ccelique Vias , & Sydera monftrent. 
Lib. II. 475- 
Would you your Poet’s firft Petition hear, 
Give me the Ways of wand 'ring Stars to know. 
Ovid appears alfo perfectly acquainted with the 
antient Figures, and the moft accurate way of deli- 
neating them, at the fame time that he enlivens them 
with their Fiffions. 
Confiftimt qne Loco , Specie remanente Corona, 
Qui medius nixique Genu, anguemque tenentis. 
Met. VIII. 18 1. 
— — — • — — —The Crown retains 
Its proper Figure, and a Station gains 
Where Hercules in bending Pofture hands. 
And drives to gripe the Dragon in his Hands. 
Vid. Lib. XIV. 84 6. 
How he came by the Account, it is not material to 
inquire - y but there is one Line y wherein he feerns to 
have preferved fome antient Tradition, as to the 
Pole. 
(pulque Polo pofita ejt glaciali proxima Serpens. 
Lib. II. 173 . 
The folded Serpent next the frozen Pole. 
And there is Rcafon to believe one of the Stars of 
that Conjlellation was the antient Polar Star , and 
might firft give Rife to the Denomination ; for one in 
the Tail of the Dragon , of the Third Magnitude , 
comes ncaicrt it ot any other. About the lime of 
the Floods it was within io' of the Pole 7 and might 
