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I have hitherto called it the ftar Ardturug ; but it 
is not improbable that Hefiod meant the whole con- 
ftellation Bootes (21). He calls it, indeed, A1ETHP, 
and that word, according to Macrobius (22), fignifies 
only a Jingle Jtar. But whatever it might do in his 
time, it teems evident, that, among the antients, and 
efpecially the poets, that diftindtion was not always 
nicely abler ved (23). If this, therefore, fhould be 
the cafe with refpedt to Hefiod, the time of this ri- 
fing of Arcturus will be fomething more indetermi- 
nate, as a confledation cannot rife all at once, nor is 
it now known how many IHrs this conllellation, in 
par icular, was, in thole early times, fuppofed to con- 
lift of. 
Cut farther; it hath been hitherto taken for grant- 
ed, that Hefiod is to be underllood as fpeaking of 
Afcra, or fome place in the neighbourhood of it ; 
but this, like wife, is not altogether certain : For it was 
no unufual thing with the antients to fet down in ca- 
lendars, of this fort, obfervations on the Tilings and 
(21) Afy.'lzpQ’ Jj Aiyt To/ x} ctu] & oA& 0 fWrur, lAiuf o l ka] b 
t ajuth ds'hf Suid. in voc. Aptt]& . And fo Theon ; Rva E tyu 
( Ar&ophylax) cv y.e<r\\ br/< Aii r xaSjpCoAriv f KAfA-mpbTtfl'b- tSiuf 
K) ewT KiyiTcu A{KTjp& , bpoiaf ttJ orAvji Ap djipti). In Arat. Ph<s- 
nom p. 1 5. 
(22) s ic. & apud Grsecos After & Aftron diverfa fignificant, Sc 
After ftella una elt ; Aftron fignum l'tellis coa£tum, quod nos lidus 
vocamus. In Som. Scip. 1 . i. c. 14. Ar«p 3 Arp» bn 6 /u.iv 
A flip iv 7 / i?r 70 Jj Ai'ficy ck. '’t oXKC’.'V &vi'in>Kiv A ? 4 par, Z 10P/0V otr b Jtj 
ArpodiTH/AA xa\E'< At. Didym. inllliad.Vt. 'W- 7 , • 
(.23) Aratus ufeth the words As-»p and Arpov indifferently. 
Siiptar tr he^va trnpj^sit 
Ar<f« PiAKeivaf iaKi letjo A'e*( kviAi^ov 
Are *«<, 01 y.d.Atrx T*rvy ,>jjp a THfAuivoitv 
Avppdmv bl p’ i fAtripA TTAVTA tyVVVTAI 
N*<V At 0 A?*t of, {ays the Scholialt there, ArtpAf Arpa Hfttx*. 
Pag. 3. Ed . Oxon. 
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