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Hygmus, in diftinguilhing Canis from Sirius as 
two different ffars, feems, to me, to contradid all 
other writers, who fpeak of them as one, except, 
perhaps, two or three latter ones, who diredly quote 
Hyginus’s words.. Sirius, or Canis, the brighteft ffar 
in the heavens, is that, which Ptolemy calls in the 
mouth ; Eratofthenes and Hyginus, in the tongue : 
but whether Bayer y y which Flamftead calls a third 
magnitude ftar, Ptolemy only a fourth, was in more 
antient times larger, I will not pretend to fay ; fince, 
Eratofthenes and Hyginus both fpeak of two ftars in 
the Dog’s head, as thought worthy of particular names. 
If, in Hyginus, jiammce candor em means the white- 
nefs of its light, as candor often does, he exprefly 
contradids what I have quoted above from others • 
yet ftill I think Ptolemy’s authority is greater than 
that of Hyginus. But that candor is alfo ufed for in- 
nocence, beauty, brightnefs, &c. take the following 
examples. & 
Bis fenis equis candore eximio trahentibus. Suet. 
Caf. Ottav. <>4. 
Si tamen ille prior, quo me line crimine gefli 
Candor . Ow'd. Epifl. IV. 31. 
formas nift candor* Me tarn. I. 7 43 , 
Candore noto reddas judicium peto. 
P hccdrus. III. Prol. 64. 
Pendebant ex auribus infignes candore et magni- 
tudine Lapilli, Quint. Curt . IX. 4. 
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