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of that colour, and, I think, the only confiderable 
ftars which are fo. 
But, to this rule there feems to be one exception, 
and that in a remarkable ftar : for old authors men- 
tion the Dog ftar, which is now white, and not at 
all inclined to rednefs, as being then very much fo-; 
as in the following places : 
T oios xcti (pp&pos ctZipojuZvco V 7 ro vootco 
Q cttvZTcti cifjL(poTepoicn x.vw v v 7 ro 7 rocrai {hzfiyxtos 
TlolXlAoS ' • ApotTB (pOLlVQfJLtVGC . $26. 
Which Cicero thus turns Sec Gruter’s Cicero, 
259 • 
Namque pedes fubter rutilo cum lumine claret 
Fervidus ille Canis ftellarum luce refulgens. 
Seu rubra Canicula findet 
Infantes ftatuas— Hor. Sat. II. 39, 
Acrior lit Caniculas rubor, Martis remiffior Jo vis 
nullus. Seneca Quaft. Nat. I. 1 . 
’O €V TW c^OJJUX'Tl ?,CCfJL 7 rpOTCCraS XeeXUfJLeVOS XVCCV VTTQ- 
xippos. Ptolemy. Kvvos cu^epiajxos. 
I7otx/Ao5, in the quotation from Aratus, does not 
exprelly mean red; but is always ufed of fomething 
ftiewy, glittering as gold, various-coloured, &c. as 
in the following places. 
„ T Biyzoe TOijeeAa t p(cr.'hxa>. Homer s II. v. 1 8 1. 
TlctpSaXzn jxiv 7 rpooTot {aZt ctipptvov* zvpi xaAi/J'g 
Tlomto — *■— IA. x. 36. 
Os jc<xAA/$-'os znv TroixiTvy-ccaiv * OS> 0. 107* 
'Bmnv bis OS nance Sotappovcc. 7 roixihoy.nTW> OS . ^.202. 
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