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to folve the difficulty. Ptolemy’s is, however, the 
moft undeniable evidence, who, when direCtly de- 
ferring the ffars, and particularly mentioning the 
Dog ftar, fays, exprefly, it was of the fame colour 
as Cor Scorpii, and the other ffars, which are ffill 
red ; fo that I do not fee how his evidence can be dis- 
puted. 
There is, however, one objection to what I have 
faid, but I, think, not an unanfwerable one ; which 
is, that, at firft fight, Hyginus feems to call Sirius 
white : but fince, if fo, he contradicts the other 
authors I have above quoted to prove it red, and, 
becaufe he there fays fomething I do not well under- 
ffand, I ffiall quote the whole. 
Hygini Poetic jdftron. II. 3 3. 
Canis habet in lingua ftellam unam, quae ipfa Canis 
appellatur; in capite autem alteram, quam Ills fuo 
nomine ffatuifle exiffimatur, et Sirion appellafle 
propter flammae candorem ; quod ejufmodi flt, ut 
praeter caeteras lucere videatur, itaque quo magrs earn 
cognofcerent, Sirion appellafle. 
He again diffinguiflies thefe two ffars, lib. III. 34. 
Canis habet in lingua ffellam unam, quae Canis 
appellatur, in capite autem alteram, quam nonnulli 
Sirion appellant, de quo prius diximus. 
Of two ffars in the Dog’s head, Ifis and Sirius, 
Eratoff henes alfo fpeaks : 
KctTctc?e(>ic[j.o$ A y. Kvuv E yyi S g echoes, eirt 
fjiBv KtcpctAvs a os I vis teyercti, Tfls yhorrm a. op kcci 
Xeipoov xccteo-i [J.eyccs Si A^tt/dos, tss Se toiutzs 
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